“At the meeting, several new ideas emerged from various stakeholders, especially on the integration of data collection through a single time entry of critical information,” said Piyush Goyal, Union minister of commerce and industry, consumer affairs, food and public distribution, and textiles.
The meeting witnessed participation from 32 central ministries/ departments, 36 states/ UTs, and industry associations (CII, FICCI, ASSOCHAM, and PHDCCI), according to a press release by the Indian ministry of commerce and industry.
The 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. NSWS also helps in reducing data duplication and filling same data in various forms using the auto-population module, Goyal added.
The minister pointed out that the NSWS had received nearly 76,000 applications/requests and about 48,000 approvals had been granted through the NSWS. He noted that technical glitches in the NSWS were as low as 514, meaning that the portal showed over 99 per cent efficiency.
Goyal revealed that 27 central departments and 19 states have been onboarded on the NSWS and that the renewal of licences would also be brought under the NSWS starting with the five ministries of commerce and industry, consumer affairs, food, public distribution, and textiles.
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