Doing business in Assam is expected get simpler now as the state today launched an initiative called ‘e-Udyog’ “to create transparency, promptness and increased efficiency in governance with the support of Information Technology”.
The objective of “e- Udyog” is to create a system that is easily accessible by the entrepreneurs, besides streamlining and simplifying the procedures for various applications and subsidy claims under North-East Industrial and Investment Promotion Policy (NEIIPP) 2007 and Assam Industrial Policy 2008.
“Time has changed and we cannot keep on carrying functioning in old fashion, especially when we want the private sector to come and invest in the state. We have to create a system that would ensure transparency and time bound clearances of industrial proposals,” said Assam’s industry minister Pradyut Bordoloi, while speaking to journalists.
Bordoloi admitted that though implementation of ‘single window clearance’ for industrial proposals was made in successive state industrial policies in the past, they did not exactly materialise on the ground and remained rather “bookish”.
However, he said that India being a democratic country, it would never be possible to implement ‘single window clearance’ in classic form as “various agencies need to be roped in to give clearance to a particular project”.
