Indian states ranking by ease of doing business

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Ease of doing business ranking of states and union territories of India is the annual ease of doing business (EDB) index of states and union territories of India based on the completion percentage scores of action items points of annual Business Reforms Action Plan (BRAP) under the Make in India initiative.[1][2][3] This ranking of states has been done by World Bank since 2015 and facilitated by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (India) of Government of India based on the progress of states in completing annual reform action plan covering 8 key areas which has a number of points that vary every year, for example 2017 and 2016 reform plan had 372 and 340 action points respectively.[4][1][2][3] The World Bank ranks individual nations on the ease of doing business index. The ranking of states is not done on same criteria as ranking of nations. Ranking of states does not reflect the level of business-conducive nature of the states, it reflects the willingness of states to reform and attract investments.[4]

India jumped to 100th place out of 190 countries in the World Bank's 2017 ease of doing business index, from 130th in the 2016.[5] In February 2017, the government appointed the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the National Productivity Council "to sensitise actual users and get their feedback on various reform measures".[6] Consequently, now there is competition among the Indian states to improve their current ranking on the ease of doing business index.[7][8] Centre government as well as various states are executing their respective Business Reforms Action Plan (BRAP) to improve their ranking.[9][1][2]

  1. ^ a b c Charkraborty, Subhayan (2016-10-31). "Andhra Pradesh, Telengana set to top the charts for ease of doing business". Business Standard India. Retrieved 2021-09-12.
  2. ^ a b c OECD Economic Surveys: India 2017, Page 123.
  3. ^ a b PTI (2015-08-15). "Centre to announce 'Ease of Doing Business' ranking for states". Livemint. Retrieved 2021-09-12.
  4. ^ a b Pattanayak, Banikinkar (2018-02-11). "Ease of doing business: 18 states claim perfect score in reforms". The Financial Express. Retrieved 2021-09-12.
  5. ^ "Ease of Doing Business in India". www.doingbusiness.org. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
  6. ^ "On ease of doing business Narendra Modi govt does a first, to improve India's World Bank ranking". The Financial Express. 18 February 2017.
  7. ^ "Business Reforms Action Plan". eodb.dipp.gov.in. Archived from the original on 2017-07-03. Retrieved 2017-06-23.
  8. ^ "2015 Rankings DIPP" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-01-07. Retrieved 2018-02-09.
  9. ^ S, Arun (2017-11-08). "Telangana leads state-wise ease of doing business ranking". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2021-09-12.