For ease of business, state cuts 985 compliances

The Haryana Government has set a target of reducing 1,500 burdensome compliances and decriminalise 50 provisions (business and citizens) under Acts/rules/checklists by December 2025 in order to promote ease of doing business.

This was disclosed at a review meeting for the implementation and submission of Business Reform Action Plan (BRAP) and Reducing Compliance Burden (RCB) held under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary Vivek Joshi here today.

Directing departments to involve their stakeholders for seeking inputs for the reform action plan, Joshi said stakeholder feedback was crucial in the successful implementation of BRAP. He also directed the departments to adhere to the stipulated timelines set by the government for the completion of tasks. He directed the Industries and Commerce Department to also involve DCs for suggestions on business reforms.

Officials of Hartron were directed to ensure that the information on portals was available to entrepreneurs in Hindi as well, so that more people were able to avail the benefits of digital services.

Principal Secretary, Industries and Commerce D Suresh said 985 business and citizen compliances had been reduced, of which 746 pertain to business category while the rest related to citizen category. Till now, 30 provisions had been decriminalised and 19 were under review.

The meeting was informed that suggestions had been invited to reduce compliance burden under 23 Acts of various departments. The structure of reforms across all 23 Acts was being done through four steps: Simplification of forms, procedures and documentation, elimination of redundancy under which outdated laws/provisions and unnecessary compliances were being repealed, digitisation for transition from offline to online platforms and decriminalisation of minor offences, such as delays in submission and non-filing of returns. For BRAP-2024, 435 reforms were to be undertaken by February 15 across various departments.