NEW DELHI. The Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, operating under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, has constituted a high-level Advisory Group on Ease of Doing Business under the chairmanship of Gyaneshwar Kumar Singh, Director General and CEO of IICA, in line with the Ministry’s order dated 31 December 2025 and the Government’s Viksit Bharat @2047 vision. The initiative aims to strengthen India’s regulatory environment by simplifying corporate compliance processes and promoting technology-driven governance frameworks. The Advisory Group has been mandated to rationalise compliance requirements under the Companies Act, 2013, examine global best practices, and recommend measures to reduce regulatory burden through consolidation of filings, automation, event-based processing mechanisms and the development of an Integrated Form Blueprint to enhance user experience and regulatory clarity.
The Group comprises senior officials and distinguished representatives from government, academia, industry and professional bodies, including Shantanu Mitra, Sanjay Shorey and Balamurugan D from the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Prof. Harpreet Kaur of National Law University Jodhpur, Ashish Kumar Chauhan of the National Stock Exchange of India, Ajay Bahl and Bahram N. Vakil of AZB and Partners, P. R. Ramesh, Prof. M. P. Ram Mohan of IIM Ahmedabad, Prof. Vasanthi Srinivasan of IIM Bangalore, Pavan Kumar Vijay, Rahul Matthan and Dr. Pankaj Dikshit, along with representatives from ICAI, ICSI, ICMAI, CII, FICCI and ASSOCHAM. The School of Business Environment at IICA will serve as the Secretariat to the Advisory Group. In addition, IICA has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs to undertake a comprehensive research study titled Re-envisioning Ease of Doing Business for Viksit Bharat 2047, aimed at generating evidence-based recommendations to support policy innovation and administrative reforms.
