India improved its ease of doing business ranking last year-moving up from 131 to 130
A look at ground realities as states are unwilling to deal with the political hot potato
The fretting over missed opportunities to improve India's ease of doing business ranking needs to be supported with larger efforts to transform the economy into a premier investment hub
How open is India for business? Not very, concludes the World Bank, in its recent Ease of Doing Business report
He says that weightage should have been given to other aspects such as feedback from the industry
States with higher ranking are found to lag others in terms of converting project proposals into actual investments
If PM Modi wants to achieve his government's aim of getting India into the top 50 in the next few years, he might have to aim and jump even higher
Two states with governments supportive of the BJP - the newly born Telangana and Andhra Pradesh - top the rankings.
New ease of doing business index aimed at implementing reforms in agricultural marketing finds Maharashtra, Gujarat ahead of others
State govt also faces challenge of dispersal of investment especially in less developed districts
Second edition of DIPPs state rankings expected to be released later in the day
Disappointed but not discouraged by India's poor showing in latest Doing Business Report 2017 by the World Bank says commerce minister
Latest rankings put in jeopardy PM's plan to push the country among the top 50 nations by 2018
While Brunei sees the biggest improvement, Macedonia enters the top 10
Uttarakhand, Rajasthan lead the reforms implementation charts
Uttarakhand, Rajasthan lead in implementation; Arunachal, J&K and Meghalaya show zero score
The real-time implementation of reforms are captured on an online dashboard where all evidence of reforms done by states gets uploaded
India's rank in the World Bank's Doing Business Report 2016 was was up at 130th from 134th slot in the previous year
DIPP will give a detailed presentation to the team about the initiatives taken by both the central and state governments during the last one year
Efforts are on to give the final touch to the survey report