Tag: Ease Of Doing Business

Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh have been categorised as Achievers in the ranking.

Goyal spoke of the need to combine various services like the 'Digi locker' and the 'National Single Window System', so that repetitive processes are rationalised, gaps are bridged and redundancies are eliminated when it comes to applying for approvals and permissions.

  Bhubaneswar: The suicide of Bargarh farmer Brunda Sahu allegedly over crop loss continues to remain a major political issue in the state with BJP State in-charge Arun Singh lambasting the State government over the farmers’ plight in Odisha.   Addressing a press conference here today, Singh alleged that Brunda Sahu of Kalapani village of […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha capital Bhubaneswar was ranked as the 3rd best city among 17 cities in the country in terms of ease of doing business, according to a survey report by the World Bank. The Subnational Economy Rankings based on Doing Business in India, 2009 survey by the World Bank stated that Bhubaneswar has been placed […]

New Delhi: With India jumping 23 ranks on Ease of Doing Business index, World Bank chief Jim Yong Kim on Friday called up Prime Minister Narendra Modi to congratulate him for the ‘historic rise’ in the rankings. According to a PMO release, Kim said this has been made possible, in large measure, due to the […]

New Delhi: India has climbed 23 places in the World Bank’s (WB) latest ease of doing business rankings in a near repeat of its performance last year and now stands at 77 among 190 countries assessed by the multilateral lender. The World Bank’s latest Doing Business Report 2019 released here on Wednesday showed that various […]

New Delhi: In a bid to further improve Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) in the country, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) on Thursday said companies will no longer require government approval to decide salaries of their managerial staff. “From September 12, 2018 approval of the Central Government shall no longer be required for the […]

Jambusar: A bitter war of words has begun on Wednesday between Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi and BJP after the former’s sharp criticism of the government over a World Bank report on ease of doing business and the state of economy. While Gandhi rejected India’s improved rank in the latest World Bank report on ease […]

Bhubaneswar: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today accused the Odisha government of misleading people by making false claims on the business climate and investment opportunities in the State. Targeting Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik after Odisha slipped in ‘ease of doing business’ rankings, Odisha BJP said that the Naveen government is solely responsible deterioration in investment […]

New Delhi: Buoyed by a 23-place jump on World Bank’s ease of doing business ranking, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Wednesday said India can crack into top 50 if it improves on time taken for registering real estate, starting business and enforcement of contracts. Addressing a news conference soon after the World Bank released its 2019 ranking, […]

Bhubaneswar: Dubbed as an aspiring leader in the ease of doing business report, Odisha is pushing ahead with implementing a host of reforms to provide a hassle-free environment to industries to set up units in the state in an attempt to emerge as the manufacturing hub of the east. In the report released today, Odisha […]

Bhubaneswar: While India has climbed 23 places in World Bank’s (WB) latest ‘ease of doing business’ rankings, Odisha’s performance among the states in the country has been quite opposite. Earlier in July this year, Odisha was placed at 14th position in the ease of doing business rankings among all the states and what is more […]

Bhubaneswar: A month after Odisha dropped in the Ease of Doing Business rankings, an investment potential index survey published by the National Council for Applied and Economic Research (NCAER) revealed that the State has taken a sharp plunge, triggering sharp political reactions and concerns ahead of the Make in Odisha Conclave scheduled to be held […]

The areas where the progress of Odisha requires much greater political, social and governance focus are too critical to be trivialised by political cacophony.

By Sandeep Sahu The trumpeters of Narendra Modi would have us believe that his ‘surgical strike’ announced on November 8 has knocked the living daylights out of the corrupt and black money hoarders. But going strictly by evidence, it does not appear to have deterred our vast army of corrupt officials one bit. For them, […]