CS reviews 'Ease of Doing Business' initiative Hyderabad, Jan 17 (INN): Chief Secretary S.P. Singh on Tuesday held a meeting to review the initiative of 'Ease of Doing Business'.
The Chief Secretary congratulated all the departments for their tireless, persistent efforts put-in for securing the No.1 rank in the country in 'Ease of Doing Business'. He directed all the departments to keep up the spirit this year too. He further directed them to hold inter-departmental meeting and create operational systems for day-to-day use. He also reviewed the activities taken up by the departments and directed to ensure the reforms to be implemented at the ground level.
The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion communicated the new proposed 'Business Reform Action Plan' for the year 2016-17 and requested the State Government to furnish the inputs/remarks/suggestion. DIPP further informed that the States will be ranked based on the level of compliance of these reforms and usage of the systems.
There are a set of 294 questions in the 'new business reform action plan' covering 13 Secretariat departments and 27 HODs. Out of these, there are 4 newly added secretariat departments viz., Agriculture Department, Health and Family Welfare Department, Food and Civil Supplies Department, Roads and Buildings Department and 8 newly added HODs viz., Commissioner Agriculture, Ayush, Director, Medical and Health, Drug Control Administration, Controller of Legal Metrology, Engineer-in-Chief, Roads and Buildings Department, Mines and Geology Department, Chief Electrical Inspectorate. The Chief Secretary directed all the departments which were part of EODB-2016 to offer handholding services to the new departments in implementation of the reforms.
The new action plan for EODB was formulated and each department has appointed a nodal officer for implementing the reforms. The Chief Secretary has requested all Principal Secretaries/Secretaries/HoDs to ensure that all reforms are put into use by March 31.
Special Chief Secretary (Revenue) M.G.Gopal, , Principal Secretaries Shanti Kumari (CMO), Rajeshwar Tiwari (Health & Family Welfare), Rajat Kumar (Labour), C.V. Anand (Civil Supplies), Jayesh Ranjan (Industries) and Labour Commissioner Nadeem Ahmed and other officers attended the meeting.
News Posted: 17 January, 2017
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