‘Exporters are buried in paperwork’: Manufacturing facility proprietor urges Modi govt to streamline commerce course of
Rajan Bhosale, entrepreneur and Director at Topsail Home equipment Pvt Ltd — a house home equipment producer centered on exports — has raised considerations over the cumbersome paperwork Indian exporters are required to handle, calling it a “main hurdle” for manufacturing-led progress.
Talking about his expertise in a podcast, Bhosale stated, “To export a single container, we have to generate not less than 17 to 18 paperwork.” These embody industrial and tax invoices, e-way payments, insurance coverage papers, declarations, and extra. He questioned the necessity for this redundancy, noting that “if the shopper solely wants an bill and packing listing, then why do we want so many paperwork?”
Evaluating the method with China’s streamlined system, Bhosale added, “There, a car can depart the manufacturing unit with simply two clean papers. Right here, the identical course of takes as a lot time because it does to load your entire container.”
Bhosale additionally identified the added price of hiring employees solely to deal with export documentation. “It’s not simply time-consuming — it’s costly. A mistake within the paperwork may even halt GST processing, so each doc must be double-checked,” he stated.
He urged the federal government to consolidate the documentation course of into fewer, simplified varieties. “If this reaches Modi ji, my request to him is to unravel this one concern. Exporters usher in {dollars} for the nation. We’re strengthening the financial system and we deserve a extra environment friendly system.”
Highlighting Bhosale’s expertise, Mohandas Pai, chairman of Aarin Capital and former Infosys CFO, tagged PM Modi on X (formally Twitter) and wrote, “For our PM @narendramodi We have to scale back the documentation for exports. Want huge reforms, scale back struggling of enterprise @nsitharaman @FinMinIndia @PiyushGoyal @PMOIndia very troublesome to get quick to 10tr$ with insurance policies match for 1 tr$ India will lag behind with out huge reforms.”
