The Centre is planning to bring onboard all states that are not a part of the National Single Window System by March next year, according to the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) said on Tuesday.
As many as 16 states, including Odisha, Tamil Nadu and Bihar have integrated with National Single Window System (NSWS) so far with an aim to promote ease of doing business, PTI reported citing a senior official.
The National Single Window System seeks to be the one-stop digital platform to obtain all requisite central and state approvals required to start business operations. First registration in September 2021, it has so far received over 30,000 applications, of which nearly 13,764 have been granted.
The government in September last year soft-launched NSWS for businesses. It was aimed at providing support to investors, including pre-investment advisory, information related to land banks, and facilitation of clearances at the Centre and state levels.
The NSWS portal is envisioned as a one-stop shop for investors for taking all the regulatory approvals and services related to investments.
It allows online filing and tracking of all applications and clearances, thereby helping investors to obtain clearances from different stakeholders without visiting different government offices.
“Currently, 24 of the 32 ministries and departments have onboarded the system and others are in the process. 181 out of total 368 services identified as relevant, have been onboarded. At the same time, 16 states/ UTs out of 36 have also onboarded the system,” Additional Secretary in Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) Sumita Dawra told reporters here.
States and UT which are yet to integrate with the portal include Haryana, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Rajasthan, Delhi, Chandigarh, among others.
