EODB-2017 meeting held on 17-01-2017 under the Chairmanship of Chief Secretary to Government of Telangana

A meeting under the Chairmanship of Chief Secretary to Government, Telangana was held on 17-01-2017 to review improving Ease of Doing Business. At the outset, Chief Secretary congratulated all the departments for their tireless, persistent efforts put-in for securing the No.1 rank in the country in Ease of Doing Business. The Chief Secretary directed all the departments to keep up the spirit this year too. He further directed to hold interdepartmental meeting and create operational systems for day to day use. He also reviewed the activities taken up by the departments and directed to ensure the reforms to be implemented at the ground level.

Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion communicated the new proposed “Business Reform Action Plan” for the year 2016-17 and requested the State Government to furnish the inputs/remarks/suggestion. DIPP further informed that the States will be ranked based on the level of compliance of these reforms and usage of the systems.

There are a set of 294 questions in the “new business reform action plan” covering 13 Secretariat departments and 27 HODs. Out of these, there are 4 newly added secretariat departments viz., Agriculture Department, Health and Family Welfare Department, Food and Civil Supplies Department, Roads and Buildings Department and 8 newly added HODs viz., Commissioner Agriculture, Ayush, Director, Medical and Health, Drug Control Administration, Controller of Legal Metrology, Engineer-in-Chief, Roads and Buildings Department, Mines and Geology Department, Chief Electrical Inspectorate. Chief Secretary directed all the departments which were part of EODB-2016 to offer handholding services to the new departments in implementation of the reforms.

The new action plan for EODB was formulated and each department has appointed a nodal officer for implementing the reforms. Chief Secretary has requested all Principal Secretaries/Secretaries/HoDs to ensure that all reforms are put into use by 31-03-2017.

         

Sri M.G.Gopal, Special Chief Secretary, Revenue, Smt Shanti Kumari, Principal Secretary to CM, Sri Rajeshwar Tiwari, Principal Secretary, Health & Family Welfare, Sri Rajat Kumar, Principal Secretary, Labour, Sri C.V.Anand, Principal Secretary, Civil Supplies, Sri Jayesh Ranjan, Secretary, Industries,  Sri Nadeem Ahmed, Commissioner, Labour and other officers attended the meeting.

-Press note