The Delhi Cabinet has approved the Delhi Ease of Doing Business Bill, 2026 to bring “fundamental changes” to the process of obtaining approvals, registrations, licences and other clearances to set up enterprises in the Capital, the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) stated in a release on Wednesday.

The statement quoted Chief Minister Rekha Gupta as saying that the most important feature of the proposed law would be a single-window system to facilitate approvals, registrations, no-objection certificates (NOCs), consents, licences, and other clearances through a simple and user-friendly portal.

Using the single-window clearance system, businesses will also be able to obtain sanctions for building plans, approvals from the fire department, and water, drainage and electricity connections, the CMO added.

Next steps

The Bill will be sent to the Union Home Ministry for approval, a senior official said. The Ministry is expected to seek the opinion of the Legal Affairs Department as several legal issues are involved. Based on the Ministry’s final recommendation, the proposed law may be taken up in Parliament or the Delhi Assembly, the official added.

Sharing more details, the CM said, “Through the Bill, different business-related processes will be brought under a system that is simple, transparent, time-bound, and technology-driven. It seeks to move the relationship between the government and enterprises away from a mechanism based on control and suspicion to one based on trust and ease.”

Once the proposed law comes into effect, trust and convenience will be prioritised between the government and businesses, Ms. Gupta said, adding that the proposed law provides for an inspection system based on trust.

“No routine inspection will be carried out for three years after an enterprise is registered. However, an inspection may be conducted if a serious complaint is received,” the CM said.

Self-declaration will be accepted for businesses considered low risk.

The Delhi State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation will be the nodal agency for all business approvals.

Ms. Gupta said enterprises already registered under the Goods and Services Tax Act, the Food Safety and Standards Act, the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act or the four Labour Codes will not need to obtain separate registrations for establishments categorised as ‘health-trade’ and ‘eating house’.

The Delhi Cabinet has cleared the implementation of the PARIVARTAN (Programme for Accelerated Renewal and Incentivization of Vehicle Assets for Reducing Transport Air Pollution and Network Emissions) scheme, Chief Minister Rekha Gupta said on Monday.

The Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways’ initiative aims to reduce air pollution by incentivising the replacement of older, highly polluting trucks and buses operating in the Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR) with electric and BS-VI compliant vehicles.

The CM said the scheme is expected to benefit around 2.07 lakh truck and bus owners in Delhi-NCR. “It will replace a large number of old, highly polluting commercial vehicles with cleaner and more modern ones, leading to a reduction in air pollution,” she said.

₹9,585 cr.-initiative

The PARIVARTAN scheme, with a total outlay of ₹9,585 crore, including ₹5,041 crore from the Centre, was approved by the Union Cabinet on June 3.

On July 16, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs approved the guidelines for the scheme.

Affirming that her government is fully committed to promoting clean transport, Ms. Gupta said the Central government programme will help achieve the objectives laid out in the Delhi EV Policy-2026 and accelerate the modernisation of the commercial vehicle fleet in the national capital and significantly reduce vehicular pollution.

The initiative will be operated through a dedicated portal developed by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways to make the process more transparent, simple and user-friendly, she added.

Discounts, fuel vouchers

Under the scheme, owners of BS-IV or older light goods vehicles (LGVs) who scrap their vehicles and purchase a new electric LGV will receive a 100% exemption on motor vehicle tax and registration fees for 10 years from the Delhi government. They will also be eligible for a 5% interest subsidy, an 8% discount from the vehicle manufacturer and fuel vouchers or a one-time benefit equivalent to the discounted value of the fuel vouchers, read a statement from the CM’s Office.

If, instead of purchasing a new electric LGV, the owner buys a used electric LGV, the beneficiary will receive a 50% exemption on motor vehicle tax for 10 years, a 5% interest subvention and a one-time benefit equivalent to the discounted value of the fuel vouchers, it added.

The programme offers similar benefits for medium goods vehicles and heavy goods vehicles that are BS-IV or older. Owners who scrap such vehicles and purchase new BS-VI, higher-emission standard or electric goods vehicles will be eligible for a 100% exemption on motor vehicle tax for 10 years, 100% waiver of registration fees, 5% interest subsidy, 8% discount from the vehicle manufacturer and fuel vouchers or a one-time benefit equivalent to the discounted value of the fuel vouchers.

The Delhi Cabinet on Tuesday approved the Delhi Building and Construction Workers Health Scheme, under which registered construction workers and their families can avail of free annual health check-ups and a range of cashless medical services worth up to ₹10 lakh per year, the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) stated in a release.

About 2.7 lakh workers are registered with the Delhi Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Board.

“Under the scheme, registered construction workers and their eligible family members, including spouses, children and parents, will receive free and quality healthcare services through empanelled hospitals and mobile health units. Each registered worker will be entitled to treatment of up to ₹2 lakh at empanelled hospitals, while the limit for a family will be up to ₹10 lakh. The entire treatment process will be cashless, eliminating any financial burden on workers and their families,” the statement read.

Beneficiaries will have access to free outpatient and inpatient services, diagnostic and laboratory facilities, emergency medical assistance, and referral services, it added.

The CMO stated that the board already runs 17 welfare schemes, including those for the education and marriage of children, disability pensions, and death compensation for workers.

Chief Minister Rekha Gupta said a comprehensive health protection scheme for this section had long been lacking, and the present initiative has been designed to address that shortcoming.

The Delhi Cabinet has approved compensation of ₹75,000 per hectare for nearly 10,000 farmers whose crops were damaged by heavy rain and waterlogging in August and September last year, the Chief Minister’s Office said on Monday. CM Rekha Gupta said a provision introduced in 2015 provided compensation of ₹20,000 per acre for crop losses caused by heavy rain.

“This amount is approximately ₹49,421 per hectare. Given the rise in agricultural costs over the past 10 years, the government has increased the assistance to ₹75,000 per hectare,” she said.

A survey by the Revenue Department found that crops in the affected areas suffered 100% damage because of prolonged rainfall and waterlogging during August and September 2025. Ms. Gupta stated that 10,977.44 acres (about 4,442.41 hectares) of agricultural land had been affected in Delhi. 

“In view of this, the Cabinet has decided to provide ex-gratia assistance at the full rate of ₹75,000 per hectare to all affected farmers. Under the previous policy, assistance was provided in proportion to crop loss up to 70%, with full assistance payable only when crop loss exceeded 70%,” the CMO statement read. 

The assistance will be limited to recorded landowners. Land owned by companies, land vested in gram sabhas and farmhouse plots enclosed by permanent boundary walls will not be eligible. 

The Delhi Cabinet has approved raising the annual family income eligibility limit for ration cards from ₹1.2 lakh to ₹2.5 lakh, Food and Supplies Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa announced on Tuesday.

Mr. Sirsa said the earlier income threshold “no longer reflected the city’s economic realities”. 

The Capital currently has about 64.93 lakh beneficiaries under the National Food Security Act and the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana, with nearly 15.46 lakh ration cards in circulation.

The process of issuing new ration cards resumed on May 15 after the government  identified 7.71 lakh ineligible and bogus enrolments during an audit of the Public Distribution System beneficiaries. 

Digital wallet

The government also announced plans to introduce a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)-enabled ration distribution system.

Under the proposed model, instead of only distributing physical foodgrain or transferring unrestricted cash into bank accounts, the subsidy amount equivalent to the entitled ration would be deposited into a beneficiary’s CBDC wallet, which would allow them to purchase foodgrain from authorised ration shops or empanelled outlets using the digital currency, said a senior official.