New Delhi: Andhra Pradesh has topped in the country in terms of implementing the Business Reform Action Plan (BRAP) to enhance the ease of doing business in the country, as per a report released by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in New Delhi on Saturday.
The report, which covered 180 specific reform action plans carried out by States, was based on the feedback of over 35,000 participants, who considered Uttar Pradesh as the second best in implementing the business reforms followed by Telangana.
Ranking of states in the order of ease of doing business:
- Andhra Pradesh
- Uttar Pradesh
- Telangana
- Madhya Pradesh
- Jharkhand
- Chhattisgarh
- Himachal Pradesh
- Rajasthan
- West Bengal
- Gujarat
In 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government launched the Business Reform Action Plan ranking to promote a healthy competition among the States for improving the ease of doing business for investors.
In this edition, more than 180 reform points spread across various business regulatory areas were considered. These included easy access to information, improvement in labour laws, speedy construction permits, single window system, land acquisition and States were judged on the basis of their performance in improving these policy issues.
“This competition is going to get healthier,” said Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman while unveiling the report.
“The fourth edition of Business Reform Action Plan used a robust methodology for deepening and widening the scope of business reform in which 100% weightage was given to the user feedback, which means, unless the impact of the reform was visible on the ground, the reform was not accepted,” said the government.
In the fourth edition of Business Reform Action Plan, Uttar Pradesh was the top performer in the northern region, while Jharkhand was at the best performer in the eastern region, Andhra Pradesh was adjudged the best in the southern region and Madhya Pradesh in Western India.
