Jammu, March 7 -- Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today chaired a high-level meeting to review progress on Compliance Reduction and Deregulation 2.0, a comprehensive national initiative aimed at easing regulatory burdens and fostering a more business-friendly, citizen-centric environment across Jammu and Kashmir, an official press release informed.

"We should endeavour to make life easy not just for industry, but for the common population as well," the chief minister said while emphasising this core governance philosophy.

Under Phase 1 of the programme, the J&K Government had defined 23 priority reform areas and successfully achieved all set targets. Phase 2 builds on this foundation, expanding the scope across 23 new critical and priority...