New Delhi, Dec 13 (IANS) No need to run from one department to another to obtain clearances - entrepreneurs interested in setting up units in the national capital can now approach the business facilitation council (BFC) for single-point clearance.
“The Business Facilitation Council will facilitate the entrepreneurs in obtaining clearances from various departments/agencies for setting up of enterprises in a time bound manner,” Chetan Sanghi, commissioner of industries in Delhi, announced here Sunday.

Sanghi said the principal objective of the BFC is to ensure grant of all approvals required from various departments through a time bound, simplified and single point contact system. “(It will) relieve entrepreneurs from the difficulties of running to various departments for the same”.

The BFC would be operated through the Business Facilitation Council cell headed by the joint commissioner of industries.

Sanghi said that the BFC will act as single point contact avoiding the present system of multi point contact; to devise a common application form fulfilling the requirements of all departments dealing with statutory and non-statutory clearances; to facilitate filling up of the common application form by the entrepreneurs through officers of the BFC; to take a prime role in suggesting policy changes and procedural reforms to remove bottlenecks in setting up of industrial unit in city; and to continuously strive to improve the processing mechanism of applications.