‘Stifling chokehold of rules, regulations, and permissions’: NITI Aayog calls for deregulation

“The next generation of reforms has to be to liberate the industry and citizens at large from this stifling chokehold of rules, regulations, and permissions,” said Rajiv Gauba, a member of the government’s policy think tank, NITI Aayog. He further stated that they “will scrutinize the maze of laws, regulations, rules, and processes with a fine comb and test them against the touchstone of trust-based governance.” He made these remarks during a brief interaction with Google’s managing director of