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Measures Nature Policy Tools
Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)
• Simplification of the Other Service
Provider (OSP) guidelines of the
Department of Telecom. Several
requirements, which prevented companies
from adopting ‘Work from Home’ and
‘Work from Anywhere’ policies have been
removed.

Power
• Tariff Policy Reform: DISCOM
inefficiencies not to burden consumers,
Progressive reduction in cross subsidies,
Time bound grant of open access, etc.
• Privatization of Distribution in UTs

• Agriculture Privatization of PSUs
• MSMEs • PSUs in only strategic sectors
• Labour • Privatization of PSUs in non-strategic
• Business Process sectors
Outsourcing (BPO) Mineral Sector
Structural • Power
reforms • Commercial Mining in Coal Sector
• Privatization of PSUs • Introduction of a seamless composite
• Mineral Sector exploration-cum-mining-cum-production
• Industry regime.
• Space
• Defence Industry
• Production Linked Incentive (PLI)
Scheme

Space
• Level-playing field provided to private
companies in satellites, launches and
space-based services
• Liberal geo-spatial data policy for
providing remote-sensing data to tech-
entrepreneurs

Defence
• Corporatization of Ordnance Factory
Board
• FDI limit in the Defence manufacturing
under automatic route will be raised from
49 per cent to 74 per cent.

Source: Compiled from various sources and covers major policy measures