For all those Indian and International organizations who would like to start their environmental business in India, here is a comprehensive report from World Bank to get started. Here are some of the findings that I quote from their website:
Doing Business in India 2009 compares business regulations across 17 Indian cities. The report focuses on local regulations that affect 7 stages in the life of a small or mid-sized domestic enterprise: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, registering property, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, and closing a business. The report shows that differences in city- and state-level regulations and practices in the implementation of national-level regulations can enhance or constrain local business activity. The report suggests that cities in India can learn from each other and adopt good practices that are already working within the country.
Doing Business in India 2009 is the first subnational report fully dedicated to India. A number of Indian cities were previously benchmarked by the Doing Business in South Asia 2005-07 series. Fourteen out of the seventeen cities covered in the report introduced local reforms in at least one of the areas measured. Reforms produced tangible results, such as reducing the average time to open a business from 54 to 35 days in 10 cities. Time to obtain a building permit was reduced by 25 days on average.
Main findings:
Doing business is easier in Ludhiana, Hyderabad, and Bhubaneshwar. It is more difficult to start and operate a business in Kochi and Kolkata.
The number of procedures to open a business ranges from 11 to 13, 8 of which are set nationally. Starting a business is fastest in Mumbai and Noida (see graph) with 30 days and slowest in Kochi with 41 days. Business start up is least expensive in Patna at 38% of income per capita, while in Mumbai, the cost is almost twice as much.
The process to obtain construction-related permits and clearances is easiest in Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad, where 15 procedures are required, but more cumbersome in Kolkata and Mumbai, where more than 30 procedures are needed. Cutting the time to the level of Hyderabad - 80 days - would put India ahead of Germany.
Cities in India do well on the number of procedures required to register property - on average, only 5 procedures are needed. This performance ranks the average Indian city at 47th out of 181 economies.
When compared internationally, Indian cities lag behind in the ease of enforcing contracts, closing a business and paying taxes.
There are a lot of good local practices and cities can learn from each other. If a city in India were to adopt all best practices that already exist in the seven areas covered by the report, it would rank 67th out of 181 economies, improving India’s global ranking by 55 positions.Go to the source and download the report
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