SME Times News Bureau | 23 Dec, 2021
As
part of Azadi ka Amrut Mahotsav, Government of India is observing Good
Governance Week from 20th to 25th December
2021.
In the
Good Governance Week, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal
Trade, organized a National Workshop on next Phase of Reforms for Reducing
Compliance Burden on 22nd December 2021 at Ambedkar
International Centre, New Delhi.
Workshop
witnessed wide participation from States, Central Ministries, Industry
Associations and Industry Representatives.
More
than 100 representatives from 27 States/UTs, more than 200 members from Central
Ministries, Departments and subordinate organizations and 95 representatives
from Industry Associations participated in deliberations of the Workshop.
Context
of the workshop was set in the opening session wherein DPIIT made a short
presentation on overview of the exercise of reducing compliance burden, status
of compliances reduced, initiatives implemented by Ministries and States/UTs to
reduce compliance burden on citizens and businesses and next steps of the
exercise.
To
understand views and seek suggestions from stakeholders, workshop included 3
Breakout Sessions on following themes- Breaking Silos and Enhancing Synergies
among Government Departments, Chaired by Shri B.V.R Subrahmanyam, Secretary D/o
Commerce.
The
key points discussed during this session are possibilities of issuance of
Master Certificate listing all registrations, merging key business
identity numbers into single ID, integration of State Single Window Systems
with Central Ministries/Departments, etc.
Single
Sign-on for Efficient Delivery of Citizen Services. Chaired by Shri Ajay
Prakash Sawhney, Secretary MeitY.
The
main points discussed during this session are considering integration of all
Citizen services at Central and State services on the National Single Sign-On,
possibility of UMANG to be the National Single Sign-on (SSO) mobile application
along with www.india.gov.in as
the National Single Sign-On Webpage
Effective
Grievance Redressal, Chaired by Secretary D/o Land Resources. The key points
which were deliberated are multiple platforms for raising grievances need to
use technology to ensure that the complaints are genuine, use of Artificial
Intelligence (AI) for predictive analysis and data filtration
During
the concluding session of the workshop, core issues were identified and next
steps on respective themes of the Breakout Sessions were presented by
respective Chair Secretaries.