Kolkata, Oct. 31 -- NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Ashok Lahiri has expressed confidence that West Bengal will see improvements in its regulatory environment as state governments increasingly recognise the need to ease regulations and support industrial growth.

Speaking to the media on regulatory reforms at the Centre and state levels, Lahiri said states were becoming more aware of shortcomings in their regulatory systems and were taking steps to address them.

"State governments now are very aware of the deficiencies of the regulatory regime and they're trying to reform it. I'm very hopeful that in West Bengal we'll see definite improvements in the regulatory regime," he said.

Lahiri emphasised that regulatory reforms must be an ongoing proc...