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Jammu & Kashmir has onboarded the National Single Window System (NSWS). With the development, it became the first Union Territory to join the system. Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha launched the JK Single Window Clearance System integrated with NSWS in the presence of Chief Secretary of the government of Jammu and Kashmir Arun Kumar Mehta.
NSWS is linked with the 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.
The NSWS, a 2020 budgetary announcement of the Government of India, 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 Minister for Commerce and Industry, Textiles and Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Shri 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 / 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.
14 States/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.
As on date, the portal has 16,800visitors, out of which 7,500KYA journeys have been serviced. More than 1,250 investors are registered on the portal.
The NSWS platform can be accessed at www.nsws.gov.in.