India, Oct. 30 -- Delhi Lieutenant Governor Taranjit Singh Sandhu on Thursday set a November-end deadline to complete deregulation reforms, pulling up officials over repeated delays and asking them to clear bottlenecks without further extensions.

Reviewing progress on the ease of doing business and ease of living initiatives, Sandhu was informed that deregulation of 22 of the 23 priority areas identified under phase-I and the urbanisation of 48 villages are complete. The only pending priority area concerns redefining the land-use framework linked to the PM-UDAY scheme.

Sandhu asked the industries department to focus on bottlenecks it could resolve, noting that deadlines had been missed repeatedly.

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