Union Minister for Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal, launched the ‘Jan Sunwai portal’, which is an online platform of the Department of commerce, designed to streamline communication between stakeholders and authorities.
Objective and significance
- Designed to streamline the communication between stakeholders and authorities.
- Providing a direct and transparent channel for addressing trade and industry related issues.
- This portal will provide a significant boost to the existing commerce and business sector since people will not have to visit our offices with their grievances.
- They can file it with us online through this portal.
Accessibility to which department?
This portal’s accessibility extends to solve the problem related to many commerce department for exports such as,
Department of commerce, DGFT (Director General of Foreign Trade), Tea Board, Coffee Board, Spices Board, Rubber Board, APEDA (Agricultural and Processed Food Export Development Authority).
Portal offers
- On Demand video conferencing services
- Fixed video conference for regulars
- Scheduled interactions
- Portal brings the government in guiding India towards transparency, efficient, and sustainable trade environment and benefitting the country’s larger benefit.
ECGC
Another Portal also launched along with this Export Trade Guarantee Corporation (ECGC), This portal will allow MSME sectors to avail 90% insurance cover for credit limit up to Rs 80 crore.
Benefits
- Significant leap towards paperless processing
- Faceless service delivery
- Benefitting exports and banks
- Enhance not just customers but also ECGC’s service mechanism
Key Outcomes
- Full automation of process
- Business process integration
- Quick proposal disposals
- Enhanced operation control
- Reducing the carbon footprint in operations