In order to boost the foreign and domestic investments, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said that India needs to further ease its business processes, though he admitted that the country has been impacted by global trade shrinkages in terms of uncertainties in stock and currency markets.
Jaitley who is on a four-day Australia visit said that ease of doing business is an important work which is still in progress as far as India is concerned. He added that 'I can't claim that we have achieved everything but I think there is a greater realisation in India that in the competitive world today not only to attract foreign investors but also persuading domestic investors, we will have to ease our business processes.'
Highlighting various measures taken since the NDA government came to power in May 2014, Jaitley said that the government has removed the unnecessary conditionalities which were slowing down foreign direct investments and this probably in greenfield projects, has made India the most sought after destination as far as FDI is concerned.
Finance Minister further said that “in term of ease of doing business, you are measured by the stability of policies, by predictability, by cutting short the time between the decision to make investment and actual implementation you need few approvals and easy approvals'. He said that for India, the system was to get approval from multiple authorities which could frustrate the investors.
Moreover the second important challenge was not only to improve India's image but to get the image improved by the fact that in actual operation those who domestically do business and those who intend to invest in India go back with an impression that it is easy to do business in India.
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