<h1>Business Reform Action Plan rankings announced, aiming to boost investment and ease of doing business across states.</h1> Ranking of states under the Business Reform Action Plan 2019 was declared to benchmark implementation of 180 reform points across 12 regulatory areas. The methodology incorporates substantial ground-level feedback to assess reform effectiveness. The ranking aims to attract investment and enhance Ease of Doing Business through competitive state benchmarking. Ministers urged measures to reduce regulatory burden-such as removing renewals, simplifying forms, adopting risk-based or third-party inspections, digitising approvals and rationalising regulations-and the top ten performers, led by Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Telangana, were listed.