As part of Government’s initiative to improve the business environment and the ease of doing business in the country, the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP), Ministry of Commerce & Industry launched the eBiz portal on 28.01.2013 comprising License and Permits Information Services component. This will allow business users to obtain a customized list of licenses, permits, and regulations that they require or need to comply with across all levels of government i.e., Central, State and Local governments. Subsequently, the eBiz platform has also launched two services viz., ‘Issuance of Industrial License’ and ‘Issue of Industrial Entrepreneur Memoranda’ issued by DIPP on 20.01.2014.

E-Biz will serve as 24X7 online single-window system for providing efficient and convenient Government to Business (G2B) services to the business community in India .Since, business users will get services from single contact point it will result in savings of time, effort and cost. The benefits will accrue across all sectors, including, Manufacturing, Information Technology, construction services among others.

Subsequent to the commencement of eBiz project in June 2009, requests were received from the states of Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat and West Bengal for inclusion in eBiz project during the pilot phase. The States of Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal have since been included in the pilot phase of the project.

The information was given by the Minister of State (Independent Charge) in the Ministry of Commerce & Industry Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman in a written reply in Lok Sabha.

Single-window G2B portal centralises licensing and compliance information, enabling streamlined online access and issuance for businesses. The central government created the eBiz portal as an online single-window system to centralise licence, permit and regulatory information across central, state and local governments, provide customised lists of required approvals, and offer transactional services for issuance of industrial licences and Industrial Entrepreneur Memoranda, with selected states included in a pilot to test intergovernmental coordination and online service delivery for multiple industry sectors.