Yesterday Finance minister Arun Jaitlery launched Single window Government to Business portal - www.ebiz.gov.in that will provide 11 central government services that are required to start a business.
Aim behind starting this portal is to help businessmen to avoid repeated visits to government offices. Instead of these visits they can concentrate on their businesses. Now they can comply with government government's regulations while sitting at their home or office using their computers. Government has planned to bring bring services to e-Biz portal.
There is no fees to register for e-Biz portal. You need to fill basic information like Name, date of birth, email ad telephone to register for these services. Further you can pay for government services online. Payment gateway has been integrated to the website.
With the help of this portal and other online initiative, government is trying to improve India position in "Ease of Doing Business index". Right now India is standing at rank 142 out of 189 countries, behind many African countries.
List of 11 services to be provided
- Ministry of corporate affairs: Name Availability, Director Identification Number, Certificate of Incorporation, Commencement of Business;
- Central Board of Direct Taxes: Issue of Permanent Account Number (PAN), Issue of Tax Deduction Account Number (TAN);
- Reserve Bank of India: Advanced Foreign Remittance (AFR), Foreign Collaboration-General Permission Route (FC-GPR);
- Employees' Provident Fund Organisation: Employer Registration;
- Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organisation: Issue of Explosive License; and
- Directorate General of Foreign Trade: Importer Exporter Code Licence
