Deregulation panel to reduce State’s role in governance: PM

A day after returning from his two-nation visit to France and the United States, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the Union government will constitute a deregulation commission to further reduce the role of the state in all spheres of governance and to promote ease of doing business. Deregulation panel to reduce State’s role in governance: PM Speaking at ET Now Global Business Summit 2025, the Prime Minister said that over the past decade, the National Democratic Alliance government has transformed the “fear of business” into “ease of doing business” through its policies. “Today, India is at the centre of the global future discussions and also leading in some as well.” Talking about various reforms, the Prime Minister said it has been made in property rights by launching Svamitva Yojana, in which land surveys using drones have been completed in over 300,000 villages across the country and over 22.5 million people have received property cards. “Today we hear that because of these cards, people are getting benefited.people in villages are getting credit access.” The Prime Minister also criticised the previous Congress-led UPA government saying they were slow in undertaking reform measures. PM Modi also said that in India there is an ecosystem where people don’t want any conversation around “positive things”.