RAS question
The Rajasthan Single Window Clearance System is designed to:
Correct answer: (A) Facilitate ease of doing business for investors.
The Rajasthan Single Window Clearance System is designed to facilitate ease of doing business for investors by providing a unified platform for approvals and clearances needed to set up industries.
Explanation
The system fits under Rajasthan's ease-of-doing-business push, where the government aims to simplify procedures, reduce costs and make the business environment more transparent. The Single Window Clearance System provides the required permissions, approvals and clearances for setting up industries through one platform. The Government of Rajasthan Economic Review 2025-26 describes the Raj Nivesh Portal, launched under the Single Window Scheme, as a mechanism that streamlines approvals for investment proposals in Rajasthan and was integrated with the Single Window Clearance System to create a unified platform for approvals. That is why the correct focus is investor facilitation, not general public-service processing.
Why the other options are wrong
- (B) Passport processing is a central government function, while the Single Window Clearance System is tied to Rajasthan investment approvals and industrial clearances.
- (C) Court cases are judicial matters, whereas this system deals with permissions, approvals and clearances for setting up industries.
- (D) Railway bookings fall under a central subject, not Rajasthan's investor-clearance mechanism for industrial and business approvals.
Concept
This tests Rajasthan economy governance, especially industrial facilitation and ease-of-doing-business reforms. RAS repeats such schemes because they link state policy instruments with investment, industry and administrative reform.