Sanjeev Sanyal Debunks Bureaucracy Myths, Highlights 1970s-80s Post-Independence Bad Laws

A blunt regulatory reality check from the top! Speaking at the ASSOCHAM forum on Ease of Doing Business, Sanjeev Sanyal, Member of the PM Economic Advisory Council, debunked the popular notion that India’s complex bureaucratic web is entirely a colonial legacy, revealing that most counterproductive laws actually originated in the 1970s and 1980s. Addressing the massive regulatory hurdles where MSMEs face 25 separate departments for permissions, Sanyal and industry leaders mapped out systemic restructuring to eliminate bottlenecks. He also highlighted the government's rapid shift toward single-window, "plug-and-play" industrial parks to attract global FDI seamlessly.