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The 1991 reforms dismantled the licence raj, but largely left the inspector raj untouched\u2014 the rule of the factory inspector, labour inspector, pollution inspector, tax inspector and so on. Many have draconian powers. In that context, the recent policy changes should be seen more as an overdue start towards deregulation, rather than the completion of the very difficult task of simplifying a tangled mess<\/a> of rules across levels of government, departments and regulatory agencies\u2014an opening note rather than a crescendo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 1991 reforms dismantled the licence raj, but largely left the inspector raj untouched\u2014 the rule of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[98187,114,98179,98186,98171,98174,98184,184,98178,85,98172,46,98173,98185,98189,98181,98175,98190,98176,98177,98180,98183,98182,98188],"class_list":["post-163824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-access-to-finance-for-smes-india","tag-business","tag-business-licensing-compliance-india","tag-compliance-costs-indian-companies","tag-deregulation-india","tag-ease-of-doing-business-india","tag-economic-freedom-india","tag-economy","tag-enterprise-surveys-world-bank","tag-il","tag-inspector-raj-reforms","tag-israel","tag-labour-codes-implementation","tag-land-use-reforms-states","tag-manufacturing-employment-india-statistics","tag-missing-middle-indian-enterprises","tag-niti-aayog-regulatory-reforms","tag-prosperity-think-tank-bhuvana-anand","tag-quality-control-orders-withdrawal","tag-rbi-master-directions","tag-regulatory-burden-on-smes","tag-scale-challenges-indian-firms","tag-small-business-productivity-india","tag-working-hours-regulation-women-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}