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NSWS: India's One Portal for Investor Approvals
The National Single Window System (NSWS) is DPIIT's online portal for business approvals, under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Through it an investor learns which approvals a business needs, applies for them and follows each application. It completed five years on 22 September 2026, with Central and State approvals reachable from a single interface.
Last updated 23 September 20264 min read
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Explains the National Single Window System at five years: who runs it, how an application moves, the Know Your Approvals tool, PAN as the business ID, and its current count of approvals and onboarded businesses.
- National Single Window System
- NSWS
- DPIIT
- Know Your Approvals
- Common Registration Form
- Ease of Doing Business
- Foreign Investment Facilitation Portal
- PESO
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