Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the government was working to reduce compliance burden, further improve ease of doing business and cut down logistics costs for the industry.
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) is planning to grant life-long licenses, conditional upon filing their returns every year. This is in a bid to reduce the compliance burdens on restaurants and food manufacturers.
“This is a great step towards improving ease of doing business. We are fine with the conditionality of filing annual returns because a regulatory body needs to have some data with it,” Prakul Kumar, secretary general National Restaurants Association of India (NRAI) told the publication. Check out the full story here.
