Economy Profile:
India
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CONTENTS
Introduction .................................................................................................................................. 4
The business environment .......................................................................................................... 5
Starting a business ..................................................................................................................... 14
Dealing with construction permits ........................................................................................... 30
Getting electricity ....................................................................................................................... 42
Registering property .................................................................................................................. 50
Getting credit .............................................................................................................................. 60
Protecting investors ................................................................................................................... 67
Paying taxes ................................................................................................................................ 76
Trading across borders .............................................................................................................. 85
Enforcing contracts .................................................................................................................... 94
Resolving insolvency ................................................................................................................ 105
Employing workers .................................................................................................................. 111
Data notes ................................................................................................................................. 118
Resources on the Doing Business website ............................................................................ 123
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INTRODUCTION
Doing Business sheds light on how easy or difficult it is the paying taxes indicators, which cover the period
for a local entrepreneur to open and run a small to January–December 2011).
medium-size business when complying with relevant
The Doing Business methodology has limitations. Other
regulations. It measures and tracks changes in
areas important to business—such as an economy’s
regulations affecting 11 areas in the life cycle of a
proximity to large markets, the quality of its
business: starting a business, dealing with construction
infrastructure services (other than those related to
permits, getting electricity, registering property,
trading across borders and getting electricity), the
getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes,
security of property from theft and looting, the
trading across borders, enforcing contracts, resolving
transparency of government procurement,
insolvency and employing workers.
macroeconomic conditions or the underlying strength
In a series of annual reports Doing Business presents of institutions—are not directly studied by Doing
quantitative indicators on business regulations and the Business. The indicators refer to a specific type of
protection of property rights that can be compared business, generally a local limited liability company
across 185 economies, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, operating in the largest business city. Because
over time. The data set covers 46 economies in Sub- standard assumptions are used in the data collection,
Saharan Africa, 33 in Latin America and the Caribbean, comparisons and benchmarks are valid across
24 in East Asia and the Pacific, 24 in Eastern Europe economies. The data not only highlight the extent of
and Central Asia, 19 in the Middle East and North obstacles to doing business; they also help identify the
Africa and 8 in South Asia, as well as 31 OECD high- source of those obstacles, supporting policy makers in
income economies. The indicators are used to analyze designing regulatory reform.
economic outcomes and identify what reforms have
More information is available in the full report. Doing
worked, where and why.
Business 2013 presents the indicators, analyzes their
This economy profile presents the Doing Business relationship with economic outcomes and presents
indicators for India. To allow useful comparison, it also business regulatory reforms. The data, along with
provides data for other selected economies information on ordering Doing Business 2013, are
(comparator economies) for each indicator. The data in available on the Doing Business website at
this report are current as of June 1, 2012 (except for http://www.doingbusiness.org.
