The recently released ranking showed Andhra securing the first position. In the same, Telangana has slipped to the third position from the second position in the 2018 ranking in the nation-wide Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) rankings for the year 2019, after Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. Union Minister for Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal released the Ranking for 2019 in Delhi on Saturday, in the presence of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Hardeep Singh Puri.

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According to the officials of the Industries department, Telangana lacked points due to the difference in the feedback percentage for executing the reforms when contrasted to Uttar Pradesh. They said that the EoDB rankings were based on the points gained by each State in the implementation of about 17 categories including Labour Regulation-Enablers, Access to Information and Transparency Enablers, Commercial Dispute Resolution Enablers, Land administration and Transfer of Land and Property, Land Availability and Allotment, Inspection Enablers, Construction Permit Enablers, Single Window System, Environmental Registration Enablers, Obtaining Electricity Connection, Paying Taxes, Sector-Specific and others and feedback obtained on their implementation.

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The state government executed reforms under the 17 categories specified above, but it could implement the reforms with regard to filling up 90 per cent vacancies in specialised Commercial courts implementing a system that allows publishing of e-cause lists for commercial disputes in Commercial courts under the Commercial Dispute Resolution Enablers. The reforms pertaining to the digitalisation of the transactions in the state excise also could not be implemented by the state government.

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