Workshop on Invest Punjab Business First Portal held

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, June 11

The Punjab Bureau of Investment Promotion in association with CII as a facilitating industrial body, organised a virtual awareness workshop on the Invest Punjab Business First Portal (IPBFP).

Vishav Bandhu, Deputy Director, Policy Implementation Unit, Government of Punjab and Gulshan Garg, team leader, Business First Portal, held the session along with general managers of Department of Industries and Commerce (DIC) from Amritsar, Tarn Taran, Batala and Pathankot. Bandhu apprised the industry of various processes of BFP with regard to filling the common application form for seeking various permissions and processing timelines.

Rajiv Sajdeh, chairman, CII Amritsar Zone, said the Business First portal was a single unified and transparent interface to the industry for all regulatory and fiscal services throughout investment lifecycle and it was high time that the industry required to be apprised of its features. He highlighted the problem with regard to obtaining the change of land use (CLU) permissions and suggested linking the Revenue Department in order to speed up the process.