The federal government is contemplating to permit companies to make use of Everlasting Account Quantity (PAN) as a substitute of different information as a singular identifier for getting into into nationwide single window system to hunt completely different clearances and approvals of the central and state departments.
At current there are over 13 completely different enterprise IDs like EPFO, ESIC, GSTN, TIN, TAN and PAN, that are getting used to use for numerous authorities approvals.
Commerce and business minister Piyush Goyal stated that his ministry has already approached the division of income on the matter.
“We’re shifting in the direction of utilizing one of many current databases because the entry level, which is already obtainable with the federal government…and likely that would be the PAN quantity. So with the PAN, loads of the essential information concerning the firm, its administrators, addresses, and loads of frequent information is already obtainable within the PAN database,” Goyal informed reporters right here.
The nationwide single window system (NSWS) is geared toward decreasing duplicity of knowledge submission to completely different ministries, scale back compliance burden, reduce gestation interval of tasks, and promote ease of beginning and doing enterprise.
NSWS permits the identification, making use of and subsequent monitoring of approvals for all built-in states and central departments.
He stated that use of PAN quantity will assist auto-populate different software varieties that can be obtained within the system and can assist velocity up the approval course of and encourage extra firms to use on the system.
The system at the moment accepts purposes for 248 government-to-business clearance and approvals from 26 central ministries and departments, together with states.
Thus far 19 states/Union Territories, together with Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, and Karnataka, and 27 central authorities departments are already onboarded the system, which was began in September final yr and is beneath beta testing part.
The minister additionally knowledgeable that at current companies are taking approvals for various insurance policies together with car scrappage coverage, ethanol coverage, hallmarking of jewelry and Petroleum and Explosives Security Group (PESO) approvals.
“We can be shifting in the direction of newer areas like all inspection approvals, nation of origin approvals, export promotion council purposes. On the subsequent stage, these will come on the system,” he stated, including that each one candidates of the manufacturing linked incentive scheme are being inspired to make use of the system.
He was addressing the media after a evaluate assembly on the Nationwide Single Window System in New Delhi on Monday. The assembly witnessed participation from 32 central ministries/departments, 36 states/UTs and business associations.
NSWS additionally helps in decreasing information duplication and filling the identical information in numerous varieties utilizing the auto-population module, he added.
He identified that NSWS has obtained practically 76,000 purposes/requests to this point and about 48,000 approvals had been granted.
Renewal of licences would even be introduced beneath NSWS quickly beginning with 5 ministries like commerce and business, client affairs, meals and public distribution and textiles.
The targets of the evaluate assembly was to make sure onboarding of investor-related clearances as a way to meet timelines.