To give a further boost to the industry and trade in the border state of Punjab, the State Government on Thursday maintained that it has successfully implemented 301 reforms while the reduction of 300 compliances by 17 different departments was in progress.
The reforms were part of the State Reforms Action Plan (SRAP) 2020-21, implemented across different departments. The state Chief Secretary Vini Mahajan reviewed the implementation of SRAP while chairing a meeting of the concerned Administrative Secretaries on Thursday.
Mahajan directed the Department heads to ensure proper implementation of all reforms and reduce the compliance burden for industries so that Punjab shall lead the country in ‘ease of doing business’ for the industry and trade as well as for citizen-centric services providing ‘ease of living’ for the people in the State.
The state Principal Secretary (Industries and Commerce) Alok Shekhar informed that these 301 reforms have been implemented by the concerned departments and all evidences have been submitted to the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) within the stipulated time by January 31.
The DPIIT will rank the states based on the user feedback against these 301 reforms for which user data from November 1, 2020, to April 30, 2021, will be considered. Till date, more than 4,000 satisfied users have been generated across various services by the respective departments with customer feedback.
The Chief Secretary appreciated the efforts undertaken by all the departments in implementation of reforms and further directed the concerned Administrative Secretaries to disseminate the information as well as engage with stakeholders to create awareness about the new reforms implemented and online services developed.
The progress of reducing regulatory compliance burden was also reviewed by the Chief Secretary at the meeting.
Principal Secretary (Industries and Commerce) further informed that the exercise of reduction of compliance burden was being implemented across 31 different departments and about 300 compliances have been identified for reduction by 17 departments.
The Chief Secretary directed the Administrative Secretaries of the remaining 14 departments to study their existing Acts, Rules and Regulations for ensuring that the required action plan to reduce the compliance burden was prepared in a time bound fashion.