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NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah has described the passage of the Jan Vishwas Bill, 2026, in Parliament as a “giant step” towards enhancing ease of living and ease of doing business in India. In a post on X late Thursday, the home minister said, “Cutting down on several legal provisions, it makes Modi…
NEW DELHI: Nearly two-thirds of workers believe that working conditions will improve with enhanced rest periods and leave practices, and foresee improvement in income security due to wage transparency, once the four new labour codes are fully implemented. A similar share of employers believe that the new codes will enhance ease of doing business due…
CBIC chairman Vivek Chaturvedi CBIC chairman Vivek Chaturvedi is confident about meeting Budget targets and details number of reform measures that have been announced to shore up approvals using technology. Excerpts:A number of reform measures have been announced on the Customs side in the Budget. What is the strategy behind this?■ The FM, in her…
Against the backdrop of global challenges and heightened uncertainty, the Survey has backed reforms, including regulatory entities, and called for “creating a cadre of professionals”, who are adept in regulatory design and implementation, to improve the ease of doing business.“Policy reforms do matter. Process reforms arguably more so. Processes define the interaction between govt and…
NEW DELHI: Comptroller and Auditor General K Sanjay Murthy on Thursday raised his concern on excessive regulatory burdens that impede the competitiveness of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and slow down industrial growth.“MSMEs-related reforms need to cut across multiple departments and levels of government — Centre, state, and local bodies,” Murthy said, and added…
NEW DELHI: Getting rid of the “mentality of slavery” and the thrust on “reform, perform and transform” are likely to be the central themes of the President’s address at the joint sitting of Parliament ahead of the budget session.TOI has learnt that different ministries have been asked to give their inputs based on these themes…
CII president Rajiv Memani, who is chairman and CEO EY India, describes 2025 a year of reforms and calls for the momentum to continue. In an interview with TOI he flags power, mining, ease of doing business and judicial reforms as focus areas. Excerpts:There have been a series of reforms this year, starting with the…
File photo: Union commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal (Picture credit: ANI) Union commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal on Saturday said India’s stronger-than-expected 8.2% GDP expansion in the July–September quarter reflects the government’s sustained reform drive and measures to make business operations smoother. Speaking during a national padyatra in Gujarat, he said the numbers…
PM Modi flagged off four Vande Bharat Express trains from Varanasi. The new services will link Varanasi-Khajuraho, Firozpur-Delhi, Lucknow-Saharanpur, and Ernakulam-Bengaluru NEW DELHI: PM Modi on Saturday said that ease of getting justice or universal accessibility to the justice delivery system plays a significant role in optimising ease of doing business and ease of living…
The new consolidated notification effectively merges all relevant exemptions and procedural details into a single framework, eliminating redundancy while preserving the substance of existing benefits. NEW DELHI: Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) Saturday rolled out another trade facilitation measure merging 31 Customs duty notifications into a consolidated one. It said the new…
