Jammu & Kashmir became the first Union Territory to be onboarded the National Single Window System (NSWS) on Tuesday, a move that dubbed as a major leap in Ease of Dong Business in the UT.Lieutenant Governor Shri Manoj Sinha launched the J&K Single Window Clearance System integrated with NSWS. NSWS is linked with India Industrial Land Bank (IILB) which hosts 45 industrial parks of J&K. This will help investors to discover available land parcels in J&K, said the Ministry of Commerce & Industry.The NSWS, a 2020 budgetary announcement of the government, is a digital platform that serves as a guide for investors to identify and to apply for approvals as per their business requirements. The platform was soft launched in September 2021 by the Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal.NSWS will eliminate the need for investors to visit multiple platforms/offices to gather information and obtain clearances from different stakeholders.Twenty ministries and departments have been integrated on NSWS including Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare amongst others. Currently 142 central approvals can be applied through the NSWS portal.As many as 14 states and UTs onboarded on NSWS includeAndhra Pradesh, Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, and Uttarakhand.The Know Your Approval (KYA) module on NSWS guides investors to identify approvals required for their business based on a dynamic intuitive questionnaire. Currently, the module hosts more than 3,000 approvals across Centre & states.
