{"id":88298,"date":"2026-07-27T13:32:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T08:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newswireindia.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/27\/ease-of-doing-business-how-reforms-are-reshaping-indian-industry\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T13:32:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T08:02:58","slug":"ease-of-doing-business-how-reforms-are-reshaping-indian-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newswireindia.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/27\/ease-of-doing-business-how-reforms-are-reshaping-indian-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Ease of Doing Business: How Reforms Are Reshaping Indian Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 27: <\/strong>Ten years ago, if you wanted to start a small factory in India, you probably spent weeks going from one government office to another, chasing stamps and signatures for permits that didn\u2019t really have much to do with what you were trying to build. Now things look very different. If you\u2019re a first-time entrepreneur in Coimbatore or Indore, you can register your company, sort out your bank account, and apply for GST, often in just a few days, usually online, without ever stepping into a government building. That\u2019s not luck\u2014it\u2019s the result of a steady, years-long effort to make it easier to do business in India. You can actually see the difference, whether you\u2019re on a factory floor, at the export dock, or in a tiny startup office.<\/p>\n

From Paperwork to Platforms<\/h4>\n

The biggest change? Everything\u2019s gone digital. Take the SPICe+ platform. It rolls up company incorporation, PAN, TAN, EPFO, and ESIC registration into one web form. Before this, you had to fill out different applications for each, sometimes dealing with seven departments just to get started. For small business owners, that\u2019s not some abstract policy tweak. It\u2019s a real shift\u2014from spending a month on mindless paperwork to having everything sorted in a week so you can focus on the work that matters.<\/p>\n

Trade\u2019s changed, too. What used to take endless running around\u2014coordinating customs clearances with port authorities and regulators\u2014now happens through a single digital window. With faster clearances for low-risk shipments, exporters are seeing shorter turnaround times at ports, which is huge for any business running on slim margins and tight deadlines.<\/p>\n

Tax Simplification and the GST 2.0 Moment<\/h4>\n

When people talk about tax reform, GST comes up\u2014a lot\u2014and for good reason. The big upgrade happened in 2025. \u201cGST 2.0,\u201d as people call it, simplified the whole tax rate structure, finally fixed oddities like upside-down tax duties in textiles and footwear, and made life a little easier for smaller taxpayers. If you\u2019re a garment exporter in Surat or Tiruppur, you don\u2019t have to watch your working capital vanish every quarter because taxes on your materials were higher than those on your finished products. And now, over 1.5 crore businesses are registered GST taxpayers. That\u2019s formalization not just in theory, but actually happening, as more small companies find that staying inside the system just makes more sense.<\/p>\n

Decriminalising the Ordinary Mistake<\/h4>\n

Some changes have slipped by quietly but matter just as much. Earlier, if you messed up a filing or got a label detail wrong\u2014nothing major, just a normal mistake\u2014you could end up facing criminal charges. But the Jan Vishwas Acts, first in 2023 and again in 2026, turned hundreds of those slip-ups into monetary penalties instead. So the factory owner who misses a deadline, doesn\u2019t have to panic about court cases. Honestly, for a lot of small-business owners, that one shift means more than any tax cut, because the threat of prosecution for simple mistakes kept people from growing their companies, or even registering them officially.<\/p>\n

Infrastructure Coordination Through GatiShakti<\/h4>\n

Industrial growth isn\u2019t just about rules and regulations\u2014it\u2019s also about making sure roads, rails, and ports actually connect. That\u2019s where the PM GatiShakti plan comes in. Now, ministries, state governments, and agencies get on the same digital page. Projects get planned together, not in isolation, and as a result, things just happen faster. A textile unit in Gujarat or a chemical plant in Odisha gets the payoff when new roads, rail links, and ports line up, making it easier to move goods from factories to buyers.<\/p>\n

Credit Reaching Smaller Businesses<\/h4>\n

Getting finance has always been tough for small businesses. But the past few years saw a real push here, too. The Credit Guarantee Scheme for Micro and Small Enterprises has backed loans worth over nine lakh crore rupees. The Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme kept many firms afloat during rough patches. More recently, making the Trade Receivables Discounting System mandatory for government companies means small suppliers can turn their unpaid invoices into working capital, which goes a long way in easing that constant cash crunch when a big buyer drags out payments.<\/p>\n

What the Numbers Suggest<\/h4>\n

And the numbers? They tell a pretty clear story. From 2014 to 2025, India pulled in around $748 billion in foreign direct investment\u2014way more than the previous decade. The count of active companies grew, from 1.55 lakh in 2020-21 to almost 1.98 lakh in 2025-26. Recognized startups leaped from a little over 500 in 2016 to more than 2.23 lakh, creating over 23 lakh direct jobs along the way. These aren\u2019t just numbers\u2014they\u2019re real decisions by entrepreneurs betting it\u2019d finally gotten realistic to go official and build something new.<\/p>\n

The Work That Remains<\/h4>\n

Now, all that said, it\u2019s not like everything\u2019s perfect. Some states move quicker than others, which is why there\u2019s still a push to make sure reforms actually reach the ground\u2014all the way down to the district. Land acquisition, getting environmental approvals for bigger projects, and the speed of settling disputes still slow companies down. The next World Bank Business-Ready assessment will put all this progress to the test.<\/p>\n

But, if you step back, the direction is hard to miss. Changes that used to live in government press releases are now showing up in people\u2019s daily work. Whether you\u2019re a five-person garment exporter in Tiruppur or a tech startup in Bengaluru, \u201cease of doing business\u201d isn\u2019t just a slogan anymore\u2014it\u2019s actually happening. Maybe it\u2019s not all the way there, but for more and more businesses, it\u2019s finally real.<\/p>\n

PNN Business<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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