A review meeting on National Single Window System (NSWS) in New Delhi on 5th December, 2022. The meeting witnessed participation from 32 Central Ministries/ Departments, 36 States/ UTs and Industry Associations (CII, FICCI, ASSOCHAM and PHDCCI).
Pursuant to the meeting, the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Textiles, Piyush Goyal has stated that NSWS helps in reducing data duplication and filling same data in various forms using auto-population Module.
Some schemes fully onboarded on NSWS include Vehicle Scrapping Policy, Ethanol Policy, Leather Development Program, hallmarking of jwellery, Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organization (PESO) certification. National Land Bank has also been integrated into NSWS.
Mr. Goyal also stated that PAN number is likely to be used as a unique identifier for API integration of data between ministries and states for ensuring single business user ID. Moreover, renewal of licences would also be brought under NSWS starting with 5 Ministries such as Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Textiles.
Additionally, states which use NSWS will be given better ranking on Ease of Doing Business Index.
