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<keyword id="6354427" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Apple">Apple</keyword> has sought permission from Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (<keyword id="6391107" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="DIPP">DIPP</keyword>) for opening its own stores in India. 
 
The proposal has been sent to DIPP, however, there is no mention of the investments. 
 
Apple wants to make the most of foreign direct investment rules on single-brand retail. 
 
Apple, whose sales in India crossed $1 billion the year ended March 2015, is focussing in India. It is expanding retail network and going aggressive on marketing. 
 
According to results filed with the Registrar of Companies, Apple posted 44% increase in sales at Rs 6,472.89 crore for 2014-15, up from Rs 4,500.35 crore a year earlier, and its net profit doubled to Rs 242.85 crore from Rs 119.48 crore. 
 
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<keyword id="3209160" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="DIPP-secretary-amitabh-kant">DIPP Secretary Amitabh Kant</keyword> says India will reduce its massive backlog of patent patency in coming 18 months and will bring down to US, Japan levels. 
 Addressing a jam-packed audience at <keyword id="3003094" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Startup-India">Startup India</keyword> event at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi, Kant said <keyword id="388837" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="intellectual-property">Intellectual Property</keyword> Rights applications will be processed as around 1,000 patent examiners have been hired and the work has also been outsourced to IITs. 
 
"In 18 months time we will bring our patent pendency to exactly the same level as in the US and Japan. And in about a year's time we will bring the trade mark pendency down to zero level," said Kant. 
 
About 2.46 lakh patent applications and 5.32 lakh trademark registrations were pending (as on November 1, 2015) due to shortage of manpower. On the other hand, the pendency level is quite low in developed countries like the US and Japan. 
 
When asked what will be done to ensure that Startups are not limited to cities like Bengaluru and Gurgaon, HRD Secretary V S Oberoi said his ministry will provide the backup, handholding and other helps to young entrepreneurs. 
 
"Our effort is to spread this across India...In the next few months I would see a strong element of support that incidentally is not metro or big city oriented. It is really out there (other parts of the country) we hope to concentrate," he added.

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In a bid to encourage start-ups, the <keyword id="6354952" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Delhi-Government">Delhi government</keyword> is taking steps that will exempt them from various rules and regulations till they achieve a particular turnover, a top official told PTI. 
 Lots of start-ups are coming up in the country and there is a need to provide them a conducive environment for their growth, Secretary in the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (<keyword id="6391107" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="DIPP">DIPP</keyword>) <keyword id="6358887" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Amitabh-Kant">Amitabh Kant</keyword> told PTI. 
 
 
"I think the challenge really is that how do we ensure that they (start-ups) do not have to go through any of the government procedures and regulations. 
 
"We are pushing for that for a particular number of years or till they achieve a particular turnover. These start-ups do not have to go to the very complicated process of company registration or labour registration or going through income tax processes and they keep away from the government and that is something which we are trying to evolve," he said. 
 
Kant also said India is seeing a huge energy, vibrancy and dynamism in start-ups and "We have to encourage lot of people to get into manufacturing" 
 
"Start-ups have to be given a major thrust," he said adding, "our aim is that we should be able to create an eco system where manufacturing and young start-ups flourish". 
 After 'Make in India' drive, Prime Minister <keyword id="6354477" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Narendra-Modi">Narendra Modi</keyword> in his Independence Day speech had announced a new campaign - Start-up India; Stand up India - to promote entrepreneurship. 
 
As per estimates, there are about 3,200 tech-led start-ups in India, with 800 coming on board every year. 
 
Talking about ease of doing business, Kant said the government has taken several steps to improve India's ranking. 
 
India is currently ranked 142nd among 189 nations in the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business 2015 study. With the exception of two parameters (getting credit and protecting minority investors), India does not feature in the top 100 in the remaining parameters. 
 
In 'dealing with construction permits' and 'enforcing contracts' parameters, India ranks among the bottom 10 economies as per the ranking. 
 
On the report he said: "The World Bank study was based on only Mumbai and Delhi. Now Mumbai and Delhi are not business centres any more, they are commercial areas. Industries have moved out of Delhi and Mumbai to areas (such as) Haryana, Pune, Nashik and Aurangabad. 
 
"So I think the World Bank study in someway is flawed because of its representative charter being only Mumbai and Delhi," he added. 
 
Kant expressed hope that, this year India's ranking would improve in the report. The efforts aims at bringing India into the top 50 ranks in the ease of doing business. 
 
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Small steps taken by the <keyword id="6354477" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Narendra-Modi">Narendra Modi</keyword> government to improve <keyword id="6354423" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Ease-of-Doing-Business">ease of doing business</keyword> in the country seem to be paying off. India has jumped 12 positions in <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Heres-why-World-Bank-thinks-India-can-make-it-in-top-100-of-ease-of-doing-business-index/articleshow/49563300.cms">World Bank’s this year’s list </a>in which countries are ranked on their ease of doing businesses. 
 
From last year’s 142 slot, India has jumped to 130 this year. Singapore, New Zealand and Denmark have occupied the first three spots in the list. 
 <keyword id="6391107" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="DIPP">DIPP</keyword> secretary <keyword id="6358887" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Amitabh-Kant">Amitabh Kant</keyword> said that he is hopeful of being named into top 50 in the coming three years. Kant further added, "We have reversed the trend by moving up and no country has moved 12 spots in a year. Major reforms are going to kick in from next year which will further improve our position.” 
 State Bank of India’s chief economic officer, <keyword id="6448502" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Soumya-Kanti-Ghosh">Soumya Kanti Ghosh</keyword> said, "Government has taken a lot of micro steps in the last one year and some reforms have been politically sensitive. States have also got into action...if we continue moving up the ranks at this pace we can break into the top 100 very soon." 
 
The <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=World+Bank">World Bank</a> report also says that among all other countries, India is the one that have made maximum improvements. "India is the South Asian economy recording the biggest increase in the distance to frontier score since 2004," mentioned the report. It also took note of India’s move to cut down days take to start business. 
 
As per the report, the biggest advancement into the Indian set-up of doing business was to give power to businesses which has taken India's ranking from 99 in 2015 to 70 in 2016. 
 
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set a target of breaking into top 50 in this ranking. Based on the business environment in the cities, the ranking has given 53 and 47 weightage to Delhi and Mumbai respectively. 
 
The report also mentioned India’s move of eliminating the minimum capital requirement and the need to obtain a certificate to commence business operations. 
 
"The utility in Delhi made the process for getting an electricity connection simpler and faster by eliminating the internal wiring inspection by the Electrical Inspectorate. The utility in Mumbai reduced the procedures and time required to connect to electricity by improving internal work processes and coordination," the report noted flagging two areas of improvement. 
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New Delhi, May 18 () Aviation industry captains on Monday presented their business resumption plans and discussed contemporary challenges facing the sector due to COVID-19 with Amitabh Kant-led empowered group and Civil Aviation Secretary Pradeep Singh Kharola.Kant, who heads the empowered group on coordinating with private sector NGOs and international organisations, also interacted with United Nations India resident coordinator Renata Desallien, and country heads of UNICEF, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) and discussed the way forward in preparing for a social-economic new normal.As the economy is opened up further with lockdown relaxations, contact tracing and testing intensity in containment zones will hold the key, the Niti Aayog CEO said during the Empowered Group 6 interaction with WHO and UN officials. "Industry captains from the aviation sector presented their business resumption plans, contemporary challenges &amp; discussed the requisite #COVID management protocols for safe passenger movement in the future, to the Empowered Group 6, led by CEO @amitabhk87 &amp; Secretary @MoCA_GoI," the Aayog said in a tweet.Like other countries, India resorted to a country-wide lockdown on March 25, with stringent measures to limit movement of people to curb coronavirus spread in the country. With three phases of lockdown over, the government on Sunday extended the curbs, though with some more relaxations, for two more weeks till May 31. BKS MKJ

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New Delhi, Dec 19 () NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant on Thursday said the tourism industry in India should target USD 50 billion revenues by 2022, as the sector has immense multiplier impact in the economy and is one of the biggest drivers of growth and employment.
 Speaking at the '15th CII Annual Tourism Summit 2019', Kant said the tourism sector can be one of the biggest drivers of India's economic growth as higher visitor numbers spur employment opportunities.
 "It has immense multiplier impact in the economy. Its impact on the direct and indirect job creation is informidable. It is one sector which can greatly create jobs and that is what India needs, growth with jobs.
 "India's total earning from tourism was about USD 28.6 billion in 2018. We should target that by 2022 we will go to up to USD 50 billion,' Kant said.
 Moreover, in terms of revenue from international tourists, India has only 1.97 per cent share of the total global earnings.
 In terms of tourist arrivals (number of people), it is only 1.2 per cent which is very marginal for a huge country like India.
 "Therefore we need to take it up to 3.5 per cent from 1.2 per cent so that we reach the tourism revenue target of USD 50 billion by 2022," he said.
 On the policy front, Kant said that the government has supported the tourism sector and has reduced GST rates for room tariffs.
 The GST (goods and services tax) rate on hotel rooms with tariffs of up to Rs 7,500 per night has been cut to 12 per cent from the existing 18 per cent.
 Similarly, the tax on rooms with tariff above Rs 7,500 has been slashed to 18 per cent from the existing 28 per cent.
 There will be no GST on rooms with tariffs below Rs 1,000 per night.
 He also said that tourism is essentially a private sector activity and every single segment of the sector from the tourist point of arrival to point of departure, tourist operators, travel agent, tourist guides, cab operators, resorts to hotels, everything is operated by the private sector.
 He said the government can act as a catalyst and urged the industry body CII to work with industry and state governments and work towards a public private partnership for the tourism industry.
 According to CII data, the tourism sector contribution in India has risen to 9.2 per cent at USD 240 billion. It is the third largest foreign exchange earner for the country.
 It has supported more than 4.2 crore jobs, giving 8.1 per cent of the total employment.
 Chief Exective ITC Hotels and Welcom Hotels and chairman of CII National Committee on Tourism and Hospitality Dipak Haksar said the Indian tourism sector has emerged as one of the key drivers of economic growth.
 "Our strategic intent for India is to double its tourist arrivals from 10 to 20 million by 2024," Haksar said.
 Tourism secretary Yogendra Tripathi said that as many as 13 million jobs were created during 2014 to 2018 and the government has also rationalised the visa and e-visa systems to promote foreign arrivals in the country.
 However, he pointed out that there is a huge challenge with regard to tourist guides in India and the government is making attempts for their training and certification. KPM DRR

India's tourism industry should target USD 50 bn revenues by 2022: Kant

<keyword id="6354814" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="prime-minister-Narendra-Modi">Prime Minister Narendra Modi</keyword> did not forget the tasks he had assigned to different departments. 
 In January this year, Modi had set up eight groups of secretaries for concentrated attention on areas such as <keyword id="6439829" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Good-Governance">good governance</keyword>, inclusive growth, employment generation, education and health, Swachh Bharat and energy efficiency. 
 
He had asked the bureaucrats to "get cracking" and deliver results. 
 
Now, it is review time for all the departments and Modi will assess whether the departments brought about a transformative change and changed lives of people. 
 NITI Aayog CEO <keyword id="6358887" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Amitabh-Kant">Amitabh Kant</keyword> will make a detailed presentation to Modi in the presence of all council of ministers of the cabinet at a comprehensive review meeting on Friday. 
 
"Group of secretaries had suggested transformative ideas to PM to push economic growth in the country. Following this, NITI had set action plans for all departments and have been monitoring progress on each of them," a senior NITI Aayog official told ET. 
 
“Friday's presentation to Modi is on the progress by each department on these action plans and inter-ministerial hurdles, if any, in implementing these,” the person added. 
 
Meanwhile, Modi will review departments based on good governance, employment generation, farmer-centric initiatives, education and health, etc. 
 
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India will become $10 trillion economy and achieve growth rate of 10 per cent by 2032, Niti Aayog Chief Executive Officer <keyword id="6358887" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Amitabh-Kant">Amitabh Kant</keyword> said today. 

	The country's growth rate is 7.6 per cent in 2015-16 and its economy is $1.7 trillion. 
 In a presentation made during <keyword id="626023" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Civil-Services-Day">Civil Services Day</keyword> function attended by Prime Minister <keyword id="6354477" type="PERSON" weightage="40" keywordseo="Narendra-Modi">Narendra Modi</keyword> and large number of civil servants, he projected creation of 175 millions jobs and zero per cent of <keyword id="83215" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Below-Poverty-Line">Below Poverty Line</keyword> (BPL) population by 2032. "Growing at 10 per cent will transform India. India will be a $10 trillion economy with no <keyword id="45057" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Poverty">poverty</keyword> in 2032," his presentation reads. 

	The presentation was made on the status of implementation of reports of 'Group of Secretaries' formed by the Modi government. A total of eight Group of Secretaries were formed in December last year on focus areas. 
 

	"These eight groups had officers from different ministries. Further, there were 16 groups of Joint Secretaries who simultaneously worked on their focus areas. We cut across silos so that we can act on the eight themes and act as agent of change," Kant said. 
 

	The groups has decided on sub-themes, Some of its recommendation have been acted on whereas a road map has been suggested for the rest to achieve intended target. 
 

	Under the sub-theme "accelerated growth", Kant said there will be Rs two lakh crore worth investment in roads and railways in Financial Year 2017. It intends to complete 10,000 km of road project during the same period. 
 

	LPG connections to below poverty line women through Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana and promotion of medical tourism are other action points suggested by the group for "health and pharma" category.

'India to become $10 trillion economy with no poverty in 2032'

The newly minted 170 <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Indian+Administrative+Service+%28IAS%29+" target="_BLANK￿￿￿￿">Indian Administrative Service (IAS)</a> officers of 2013 batch are literally being kept on their toes as they have been asked to come up with new and innovative ideas to simplify government processes before they meet <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=PM+Narendra+Modi" target="_BLANK￿￿￿￿">PM Narendra Modi</a>. 
 These officers, who are on deputation to the Centre before they head for their first state postings as part of an idea mooted by the <keyword id="71" type="POSITION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Prime-Minister">prime minister</keyword>, have time till November 30 to come up with ideas on simplifying at least two processes of the government. 
 
They are scheduled to face Modi at a feedback session at the end of a rigorous three-month stint at the Centre. 
 
Before their session with Modi, each of the officers have to prepare a 'Paper on Innovation' or 'Process re-engineering to improve functioning of the government', along with identifying at least two processes for simplification and compiling the guidelines or norms pertaining to their desk. 
 
A typical day, which begins with yoga for two hours from 6:30 am, is chock-a-block with meetings with senior officers and involves grappling with files related to the Centre's flagship programmes. 
The <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Department+of+Personnel+and+Training+%28DoPT%29+" target="_BLANK￿￿￿￿">Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT)</a> has issued at least 99 orders over the past one month on how they should go about their work, including a detailed 13-week work calendar to follow. But they can fall back on three senior secretaries who have been appointed as chief mentors. 
 
The time spent with the central government will help the officers "acquire a national perspective and a deeper appreciation of harmonization of diversities in national policies", according to a concept paper on the exercise being undertaken for the first time. 
 The chief mentors include home secretary <keyword id="1928895" type="PERSON" weightage="40" keywordseo="Rajiv-Mehrishi">Rajiv Mehrishi</keyword>, <keyword id="193102" type="POSITION" weightage="40" keywordseo="defence-secretary">defence secretary</keyword> Mohan Kumar and <keyword id="2665691" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="40" keywordseo="Niti-Aayog">NITI Aayog</keyword> chief executive Sindhushree Khullar. 
 
The 52 ministries and departments where the young IAS officers have been posted as assistant secretaries have been divided into four clusters — social, economic, infrastructure and regulatory. 
 
Further, these clusters have been assigned to Jugal Mohapatra (secretary, rural development), AC Duggal (secretary, finance services), Amitabh Kant (secretary, DoPT) and Sanjay Kothari (secretary, DoPT) respectively, who have been tasked with meeting every 15 days to take stock of the performance of the assistant secretaries. 
 
On August 26, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=cabinet+secretary+" target="_BLANK￿￿￿￿">cabinet secretary</a> PK Sinha held a special meeting and assigned the job to these senior secretaries. Sinha also directed the ministries to allot desks pertaining to the <keyword id="6360789" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Modi-Government">Modi government</keyword>'s flagship programmes to the new officers or programmes which have a bearing on states in terms of implementation. This will give the officers an opportunity to look at the projects from the point of view of both Centre and the ground level, Sinha said at the meeting. 
 The DoPT is keeping a close watch on the number of files initiated and disposed of at the desk of each <keyword id="222361" type="POSITION" weightage="40" keywordseo="assistant-secretary">assistant secretary</keyword>, who has to attend meetings within and outside the ministry with other officers as well. The trainees have been asked to meet every officer in their ministry. 
 
As per the 13-week work calendar, the assistant secretaries have to meet officers and secretaries across the board in the first two weeks, identify a specific project in the third week on which they will do extensive and intensive work, and work on action on frontlines for Swachh Bharat Abhiyan on October 2. 
 
Between the fourth and the eight weeks, they will have to come to grips with the intricacies of implementation of schemes and projects, and "wear the thinking caps — question and challenge existing processes and policies" in the ninth and tenth weeks. 
 The 11th and 12th weeks will be time to "bring it all together" with a presentation to the secretary on two processes that can be simplified or modified and bring files handed by the officer to the logical end. The assistant secretaries have already had meetings with principal secretary to the PM, Cabinet secretary, foreign secretary, home secretary, <keyword id="51689" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="40" keywordseo="Railway-Board">Railway Board</keyword> chairman, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Comptroller+and+Auditor+General" target="_BLANK￿￿￿￿">Comptroller and Auditor General</a>, central information commissioner, central vigilance commissioner, chief election commissioner and NITI Aayog V-C. 
 
They have attended two recent conferences held by the PM this month and submitted weekly notes on their activities since their stint began on September 1. Besides, the Institute of Secretariat Training and Management has sent 23 case studies on noting and drafting which have been distributed among the assistant secretaries. 
 
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Modi to ‘Fresher’ babus: On your toes, get set go!

“You will never get a chance like this to ask questions to so many government heads in one panel,” said Amitabh Kant, Secretary- Industrial Policy &amp; Promotion, as he introduced one of the most crucial panels ‘Face to Face with Policy Makers’ at <keyword id="3003094" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Startup-India">Startup India</keyword>, <keyword id="3016671" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Standup-India">Standup India</keyword> today. Modi government’s top secretaries took questions from the audience over the difficulties that <keyword id="6362513" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Startups">startups</keyword> in India face. Here’s what the esteemed panel comprising secretaries from the Revenue department, HRD, DEA, Science, BioTech, SIDBI, DEITY, MSME, <keyword id="35210" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="sebi">SEBI</keyword>, Corporate Affairs said they are already doing for the startup community: 
 
Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikanta Das: "In India launching a startup is like Abhimanyu entering in to Chakravyuha. India’s startup programme is a real gamechanger. We are very positive about StartupIndia and have something really nice in the package that we have to wait and watch out for. 
 
Amitabh Kant, DIPP : 1,000 patent examiners have been recruited. In 18 months our patent dependency levels will be same as the US &amp; Japan. 
 
Anup K. Pujari Secretary, MSME: We are increasing government requirement to procure from MSMEs. But have zero defects. 
 
K Shivaji, Chairman &amp; MD, SIDBI: We have been able to launch funds with the help of the government of India and RBI. SIDBI now has fund of funds. It’s called the India Aspiration Fund (Rs 2K Cr). You will be really glad to know that we are active across the startup lifecycle to help startups and investors alike. 
 
Vijay Raghavan, Secretary, Biotechnology: Startups should address domestic market; keep an eye on genomics and IP. 
To a pertinent question as to how it would be easy for a company to come here and get listed Tapan Ray, Corp. Affairs: We are linking various departments and looking forward to develop a system which will help register within 24 hrs. 
 
Prashant Saran from SEBI pitched in: We too have done away with many problems of startups, the documentations have been made much simpler. No running around will be required from now on. 
 
VS Oberoi from HRD Ministry: In next few months, we will bring out the support in small towns which is much needed."

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