National Single Window System Launched

• Union Minister for Commerce and Industry launched the National Single Window System (NSWS) for investors and businesses.
• Speaking on the occasion, the minister informed that this single window portal will become a one-stop-shop for investors for approvals and clearances.
• The system would bring transparency, accountability and responsiveness in the ecosystem and all information will be available on a single dashboard.

Key services by National Single Window System

Know Your Approval (KYA) Service

• An intelligent information wizard that generates a list of approvals required by any business to commence operations.
• It does so by asking the investor a series of dynamic questions about their planned business activities and identifies the applicable approvals basis the responses provided.
• The questionnaire, simple and user friendly on the surface, has a complex, automated logic built into it to sieve through hundreds of approvals, and shortlists only those relevant to the specific investor or entrepreneur.

Common Registration Form

• A unified information capturing system along with a common registration form has been introduced to ensure a single point of submission of information and documents across Ministries and States.
• Information is auto-populated on forms, eliminating the need to fill in the same information again.

State registration form

• Enables investor to have seamless single click access to respective State Single Window System.

Applicant dashboar

• Provides a single online interface to apply, track and respond to the queries pertaining to approvals and registrations across ministries and States.

Document repository

• An online centralized storage service for investors to enable one-time document submission and use the same across multiple approvals.
• This eliminates the need to submit documents at multiple portals.

E-Communication module

• Enables online response to queries and clarification requests related to applications by Ministries and States.

Adoption of National Single Window System

• The portal as of today hosts approvals across 18 Central Departments and 9 States.
• Another 14 Central depts and five states will be added by December 2021.