Lok Sabha Question No. 4067 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-03-25
Subject: Studies on Business Friendly Atmosphere
Ministry: COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
Asked by: Shri M K Raghavan

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY DEPARTMENT FOR PROMOTION OF INDUSTRY AND INTERNAL TRADE

## LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4067. TO BE ANSWERED ON TUESDAY, THE 25 TH  MARCH, 2025.

## STUDIES ON BUSINESS FRIENDLY ATMOSPHERE

## 4067.  SHRI M K RAGHAVAN:

Will the Minister of COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY be pleased to state: वाणिज्य एवं उद्योग मंत्री

- (a) whether the Ministry has conducted any recent studies on business friendly atmosphere of States;
- (b) if so, the details thereof including the ranking of States based on their businessfriendly atmosphere;
- (c) whether the world bank discontinued its ease of doing business index; and
- (d) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## वाणिज्य एवं उद्योग मंत्रालय में राज्य मंत्री ( श्री णिणिन प्रसाद ) THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY (SHRI JITIN PRASADA)

- (a) & (b): Since,  year  2014,  the  Government  of  India  has  been  actively  engaged  in improving the Ease of Doing Business environment in the entire country. To enhance  the  business  atmosphere  in  India,  attract  investments,  stimulate economic growth and to foster a regulatory framework that is more businessfriendly, Central Government has taken several initiatives under the flag-ship programme of Ease of Doing Business which includes Business Reform Action Plan  (BRAP), the  Business-Ready assessment, Jan Vishwas and Reducing Compliance Burden on Businesses and Citizens. Government  is also conducting Cost of Regulation (CoR) exercise which aims to identify and reform the areas of pain-points in terms of administrative costs for the services.

Department  for  Promotion  of  Industry  and  Internal  Trade  (DPIIT)  does  not maintain rankings for States/UTs on Ease of Doing Business. However, as part of the Business Reform Action Plan (BRAP) exercise, States/UTs are assessed on the basis of implementation of designated reform parameters into following four percentage-based categories.

- 1) Top Achievers - which score above 90%,
- 2) Achievers - which score between 80% to 90%,
- 3) Fast Movers -which score between 70% to 80%, and
- 4) Aspirers - which score below 70%

## Details of States/UTs categories in BRAP 2022 Survey are as under:

| Y Category (which encompasses states and UTs with established business and citizen centric systems)   | Y Category (which encompasses states and UTs with established business and citizen centric systems)                                                                                                                                                  |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| B2G (Business Centric reforms)                                                                        | B2G (Business Centric reforms)                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| Category                                                                                              | States/UTs                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| FAST MOVERS                                                                                           | GUJARAT                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| ASPIRERS                                                                                              | ANDHRA PRADESH, TELANGANA, MAHARASHTRA, HARYANA, UTTAR PRADESH, UTTARAKHAND, ODISHA, HIMACHAL PRADESH, PUNJAB, MADHYA PRADESH, TAMIL NADU, KERALA, KARNATAKA, CHATTISGARH, WEST BENGAL, BIHAR, GOA, JHARKHAND, RAJASTHAN, ASSAM, DELHI, J&K          |
| C2G (Citizen Centric reforms)                                                                         | C2G (Citizen Centric reforms)                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| Category                                                                                              | States/UTs                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| ASPIRERS                                                                                              | KERALA, GUJARAT, TELANGANA, MAHARASHTRA, TAMIL NADU, UTTARAKHAND, HARYANA, MADHYA PRADESH, ODISHA, KARNATAKA, RAJASTHAN, HIMACHAL PRADESH, ANDHRA PRADESH, UTTAR PRADESH, GOA, BIHAR, DELHI, WEST BENGAL, ASSAM, CHATTISGARH, J&K, JHARKHAND, PUNJAB |
| X Category {which includes northeastern states (excluding Assam) and UTs (excluding Delhi)}           | X Category {which includes northeastern states (excluding Assam) and UTs (excluding Delhi)}                                                                                                                                                          |
| B2G (Business Centric reforms)                                                                        | B2G (Business Centric reforms)                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| Category                                                                                              | States/UTs                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| ASPIRERS                                                                                              | DADAR & NAGAR HAVELI AND DAMAN & DIU, TRIPURA, CHANDIGARH, MEGHALAYA, MANIPUR, MIZORAM, PUDUCHERRY, ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS, ARUNACHAL PRADESH                                                                                                     |
| C2G (Citizen Centric reforms)                                                                         | C2G (Citizen Centric reforms)                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| Category                                                                                              | States/UTs                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| ASPIRERS                                                                                              | CHANDIGARH, DAMAN & DIU, MEGHALAYA, ANDAMAN, TRIPURA, PUDUCHERRY, MIZORAM, ARUNACHAL PRADESH, MANIPUR                                                                                                                                                |

- (c) & (d): World Bank Group has now done away with Doing Business Report and has now formulated international benchmarking project called Business Ready  (B-Ready)  to  assess  the  business  and  investment  climate  of economies worldwide. B-READY  aims  to improve the business environment for private sector development in each economy around the world.  Government of India is continuously working on ease of doing Business initiative to reduce regulatory burden on businesses which are also in line with B-Ready project.

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