Odisha would put five more facilities in online systems of various departments to further the performance in implementation of ease-of-doing business.
A decision to this effect was taken at a high-leven meeting held under chairmanship of Chief Secretary AP Padhi on Tuesday. Industries Principal Secretary Sanjeeb Chopra presented updates and outlined issues for discussion. Padhi directed the concerned departments to implement the reform action points within the time limits. He also directed to focus on ground level implementation of the reforms and actual service delivery. It was revealed that Odisha simplified the business processes to a large extent and many services were made online for convenience of the investors and entrepreneurs in 2015. About 310 action points were carved out for the State during the last year and the State’s performance was more than 90 per cent, claimed the Government.
The Industrial Policy and Promotion Department of the Union Government has shared around 294 action points for next assessment. The action point has mainly emphasised on development of online systems for various services. Padhi directed the departments to incorporate 5 main facilities in their respective online systems. These include detail information on the procedures and list of all documents needed, time line for delivery of services as defined under Public Service Delivery Act, system for online application, payment, tracking and monitoring of a business proposal without the need of physical contact, online delivery of the certificates, allowing third party to verify the approval certificates in the public domain.
Among others, Finance Principal Secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey, Industry Principal Secretary Sanjeeb Chopra, Revenue and Disaster Management Principal Secretary Dr Mona Sharma, Energy Principal Secretary Rajesh Verma, MS&ME Principal Secretary laxmi Narayan Gupta, Steel and Mines Principal Secretary Raj Kumar Sharma and Works Secretary Nalini Kanta Pradhan were present.