Andhra Pradesh Chief Secretary K. Vijayanand in Vijayawada. File photo
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Chief Secretary K. Vijayanand said during a videoconference with Union Cabinet Secretary T.V. Somanathan on Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) on February 25, 2025, that the government was striving to reduce regulatory compliance burden to further improve the EoDB.
He stated that the government accorded top priority to the EoDB program to make Andhra Pradesh (AP) the most attractive investment destination in the country.
Since the beginning of 2025, more than 60 burdensome compliances have been reduced in seven departments and more cumbersome procedures were in the process of being eliminated for streamlining the business environment.
He said a Government of India team was scheduled to visit Andhra Pradesh in the first week of March to review the status of EoDB and see if there were any best practices that could be replicated in other States.
The CentreI would also suggest the interventions that the State government would have to make in addition to what it was already doing.
Mr. Somanathan said members of a special task force committee of secretaries would visit the State for assessing the progress made in the implementation of EoDB.
A deregulation cell set up in the Union Cabinet Secretariat was assisting the States in simplifying the business compliance mechanism.
Published – February 26, 2025 12:35 pm IST
