The next three months would see the Centre put in place changes in policy and procedures to ensure India further improves its position in the ‘Ease of Doing Business Report-2019’, Chairman designate of Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs, P K Das, said.
The process to assess the ‘Ease of Doing Business-2019’ for 2018 will start from February 2019 and go on till August-September. The result will be out in October.
India has jumped 23 places to 77th rank in the global Ease of Doing Business rankings.
“Our efforts are that in the next three months we should ensure that all our processes are put in place in this financial year itself and deliver the desired changes, both in policy or if it is required to be made,any procedural changes. That is why any changes in the system upgradation, any capacity building, all these we are focusing now and see that we are all in the right track,” Das said.
“We are engaging with technology experts. We are engaging with IBM and other system providers, but they have to build technology as per our requirement. We have to indicate (tothem) what the processes and what the minimum requirementsare.Our engagements are on,” he addded.