Housing and Urban Development Ministry is likely to put in place a single window, time-bound clearance system for layout approvals and building permissions by the beginning of next year.
“It is a long pending demand of the industry. On national level I am working with six ministers and I have a group of ministers meeting. I have held four rounds of meetings with secretaries and ministers of environment, defence, civil supplies, civil aviation and others,” said HUPA Minister M Venkaiah Naidu while inaugurating housing summit organised by Assocham.
“The last meeting is on October 14 after that we will submit the report to Cabinet and then we will go ahead because we are getting permissions from these departments and by the beginning of the next year, I am sure you will have this in place,” Naidu said.
On Gujarat topping the World Bank’s ranking of states on the ease of doing business in India, Naidu said, "It shows that Gujarat model is working."
“Some people in the recent past started saying Gujarat model is a failure. People of Gujarat are not innocent to have three times continuously elected the same chief minister. Gujarat is on top now. Even the World Bank has also recognised it,” he added.
He said that other states should also improve their performance and prepare for the next round of assessment.
“We want every state to be progressive. Uttar Pradesh and Bihar should also participate in this race and there is no point in criticising Prime Minister Modi and Gujarat,” Naidu said.
World Bank, in association with the department of industrial policy and promotion (DIPP), has come out with ranking of all states in which Gujarat topped the list for bringing in reforms to improve ease of doing business.
Andhra Pradesh is second on the list followed by Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, all ruled by the BJP. Bihar, which goes to polls next month, was at the 21st spot.