Starting food business becomes easy! Single window licensing system for eating houses launched in Delhi
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New Delhi, October 1: Startig food business has become much easier in Delhi now! Union Minister of State for Home Affairs G. Kishan Reddy today launched a single window online system for licensing of eating houses/lodging houses in New Delhi. This unique initiative is a joint effort of various agencies involved in the process of licensing in the NCT of Delhi for facilitating ease of doing business.
The Unified Portal aims at simplifying and rationalizing the regulatory processes (registration & inspection), infusion of transparency and avoids procedural delays in getting statutory clearances from various authorities and real time receipt of application by all agencies simultaneously.
Addressing the gathering, The Minister said that the portal is a step in the direction to achieve Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision to establish a corruption-free economy by bringing in welfare-oriented economic reforms. He said that India has progressively improved its Ease of Doing Business ranking and the Government is encouraging entrepreneurs to start up new businesses. The Food and Beverages is a big sector and by 2021, it would be having over 2% contribution in India’s GDP.
Reddy whileTalking about the features of the portal said that the single window clearance system has been developed under Digital India programme to facilitate people to obtain licenses to open their eatery/lodging businesses in Delhi. This would be an integrated, transparent and seamless system for providing licenses on a time bound manner. Such a people-friendly system would prevent corruption and increase compliance with rules and regulations by all stakeholders, the Minister said.
In Delhi, a number of licenses are required for running eating houses or lodging houses. The requirements are as per the provisions in New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) Act 1994. These Acts mandate the concerned organization to issue license, NOC, registration, consent for operating eating or lodging houses in Delhi.