PAN to be key to single window clearances, says Piyush Goyal

Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Monday said, the National Single Window System (NSWS) will help in realising Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi's vision of transforming red tape into the red carpet. Briefing the media in New Delhi, the Minister informed that the PAN number is likely to be used as a unique identifier for Application Programming Interface integration of data between Ministries and States for ensuring a single business user ID. He further added that NSWS would help in reducing data duplication and filling the same data in various forms using the auto-population Module. At present, there are more than a dozen different IDs for businesses such as 15-digit Goods and Services Tax Identification Number (GSTIN), Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) and Tax Deduction Account Number or Tax Collection Account Number (TAN). A pilot version of NSWS is already working with encouraging results, 

Remarkable progress of the National Single Window System. pic.twitter.com/jajTvwdTWs

— Piyush Goyal (@PiyushGoyal) December 5, 2022

Goyal also held a review meeting with objectives to increase the usage of NSWS by the industry and use industry feedback to improve systems related to EoDB/ ease of investor clearances.The Minister said that National Land Bank has also been integrated into NSWS. He added that 1 lakh hectares of land in different industrial parks and estates are available on NSWS. The portal will become a one stop shop for buying industrial land, he said.