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Relevance of ”National Single Window System” for UPSC

What is National Single Window System?: National Single Window System is envisioned to reduce duplicity of information submission to different ministries, reduce compliance burden, promote sector specific reforms and schemes, reduce gestation period of projects, and promote ease of starting and doing business. So, National Single Window System is important for both UPSC Prelims and Mains. It covers Indian Economy and governance related issues.

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Why National Single Window System (NSWS) in News?

The Centre is planning to let businesses use Permanent Account Number (PAN) as a unique identifier to enter into the national single window system (NSWS) for different clearances and approvals of central and state departments.

What is National Single Window System (NSWS)?

• The NSWS is a digital platform to guide people in identifying and applying for approvals according to their business requirements.
• The Know Your Approvals (KYA) module includes guidance for 32 Central Departments and 31 States.
• The NSWS portal hosts applications for approvals from 26 Central Departments and 16 State Governments.

Who created NSWS?

• NSWS was created by Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) as per the budget announcement of creation of an Investment Clearance Cell (ICC) to provide a single platform to enable the identification and obtaining of approvals and clearances needed by investors, entrepreneurs, and businesses in India.

How does the NSWS operate?

The National Single Window System brings together several State Governments, Central Ministries, and Departments onto one platform and provides a one-stop solution to investors to apply for approvals and registrations required during the pre-establishment and pre-operation stages of setting up a business in India.

NSWS is under testing phase!

• The NSWS system, started in September 2021, is under the beta testing phase at present.
• Some of the aims of the system include ease of doing business by minimising duplicity of information submission, compliance burden and enables the identification, applying and subsequent tracking of approvals for all integrated states and central departments.

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What does the NSWS aims to do?

Why government is planning to use PAN as a unique identifier for NSWS?

• The Centre is planning to let businesses use Permanent Account Number (PAN) as a unique identifier to enter into the national single window system (NSWS) as it will prevent duplication, help auto populate other application forms that are received on the system and speed up the approval process.
• Moving forward with PAN will be easy, as a lot of the basic data about the company, its directors, addresses, and a lot of common data is already available in the PAN database.
• Currently, 13 different business IDs like EPFO, ESIC, GSTN, TIN, TAN and PAN are being used to apply for various government approvals in the system. So, moving ahead with PAN only system will ease the process of single window clearance and will prevent duplication.

FAQs

Q. What is the National Single Window System?

Ans. The National Single Window System (NSWS) is a digital platform for guidance of investors to identify and to apply for approvals as per their business requirements. The platform is built to serve as an advisory tool to identify approvals based on user input and is to be used for guidance purpose only.

Q. What is the aim of introducing the National Single Window System?

Ans. The aim of the National Single Window System (NSWS) is to serve as a digital platform that acts as a guide for investors to identify and to apply for approvals as per their business requirements.

Q. What is the role of Invest India in the National Single Window System?

Ans. Invest India, under the guidance of the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), manages the National Single Window System project and is involved in conceptualizing and designing the portal, onboarding of the various Ministries and States, maintaining the portal, and monitoring the performance of the portal.

Q. How does the National Single Window System operate?

Ans. The National Single Window System brings together several State Governments, Central Ministries, and Departments onto one platform and provides a one-stop solution to investors to apply for approvals and registrations required during the pre-establishment and pre-operation stages of setting up a business in India.

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