The Department for Promotion of Industry & Internal Trade (DPIIT), Government of India in association with investment facilitation agency of the State - 'Invest UP' organized a workshop on 'Minimising the Regulatory Compliance Burden'.  The objective of this program was to minimize the regulatory compliance burden across the states based on defined compliance parameters such as renewals; inspection; register and records; display requirement; filings; decriminalization and redundancy, etc. and to complete the exercise of repealing, merger, reduction or rationalization of these compliances while minimizing the physical touchpoints.

Having achieved considerable progress in the 'Ease of Doing Business' by securing the second spot nationally in the implementation of the Business Reforms Action Plan, the Uttar Pradesh government has initiated the process to reduce the regulatory compliance burden not only for businesses but citizen-centric services also.

Nodal and sub-nodal officers of 40 departments of the state government participated in this interactive workshop that was held on Wednesday.

The Uttar Pradesh government has so far identified a total of 675 compliances to be reduced, out of which 195 compliances are to be reduced in phase-1 and 480 compliances in phase-2.

Additional Chief Secretary, Infrastructure and Industrial Development, Arvind Kumar said that besides further improving the ease of doing business for industries, the government was now focusing on citizen-centric services and compliances to improve the 'ease of living' as well.

He called upon the departments to work on this exercise on war-footing since Uttar Pradesh had been identified as one of the highest compliance burden states.

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