New Delhi [India], November 11 (ANI): Uttarakhand has been honoured with the ‘Top Achievers Award’ beneath the Business Reform Action Plan (BRAP) 2024 throughout 5 main reform classes, marking the best variety of high achievements acquired by any state or union territory within the nation.
The announcement was made on Tuesday in the course of the Industry Conclave 2025 held in New Delhi.
The award was introduced to Uttarakhand’s Industries Secretary Vinay Shankar Pandey and Director General & Commissioner Industries Saurabh Gaharwar by Union Minister for Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal in recognition of the state’s excellent efficiency beneath BRAP 2024.
Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Jitin Prasada was additionally current on the event.
Uttarakhand has been recognised as a top-performing state within the areas of Business Entry, Construction Permit Enabler, Environmental Registration, Investment Enabler, and Labour Regulation Enabler. This marks a big milestone within the state’s Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) journey, which started in 2015 when the state ranked twenty third, and has now emerged as a nationwide chief beneath BRAP 2024.
Receiving the award, Pandey mentioned that ‘incomes the highest place in 5 key reform areas beneath the management and steady steering of Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami is a second of nice satisfaction for Uttarakhand. The journey from twenty third place in 2015 to changing into a high nationwide performer at this time displays the state’s progress in transparency, effectivity, and investor-centric governance.’
He added that Uttarakhand has reworked its enterprise facilitation ecosystem by means of full digitisation of approval processes, protecting the whole life cycle from software submission and on-line funds to real-time monitoring, closing approvals, renewals, and incentive disbursements. ‘Currently, over 200 companies throughout greater than 20 departments are provided on-line by means of the state’s Single Window System, lowering bodily touchpoints and enhancing transparency. Key departments corresponding to Revenue, Labour, Pollution Control Board, Development Authorities, Forest, Irrigation, Jal Sansthan, and Power are built-in into this technique.’
To additional assist buyers, the state has established the Uttarakhand Society for Promotion of Investment, Startup and Entrepreneurship (UK-SPISE), which gives devoted help and full undertaking facilitation. ‘The state is concentrated on simplifying enterprise processes and selling sustainable and inclusive improvement to make sure funding development whereas sustaining ecological steadiness’.
Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami mentioned that the state goals to develop into certainly one of India’s main locations for industrial funding. ‘The Top Achiever recognition beneath BRAP 2024 displays the state’s coverage transparency, industry-friendly setting, and rising investor confidence. Industrial improvement is creating new alternatives for prosperity and youth employment within the state. Achieving a high place in BRAP 2024 will appeal to extra funding to Uttarakhand and provides a brand new momentum to the state’s financial development’. (ANI)