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Ease of doing biz, lower costs to fuel Rajasthan's growth: Rathore

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August 21, 2025

Rajasthan's journey towards becoming a ~30 trillion economy in the next three and a half years will be guided by the twin principles of ease of doing business and lowering the cost of doing business, said Col (retd) Rajyavardhan Rathore, the state's industry & commerce minister, in a fireside chat at the Business Standard Samriddhi event on Wednesday.

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Ease of doing biz, lower costs to fuel Rajasthan's growth: Rathore

Rathore, who earlier launched Business Standard's Jaipur edition in Hindi and English at the event here, said that for ease of doing business the state had announced nine policies in key sectors. These include policies on export promotion, logistics, apparel, cluster development, One District One Product (ODOP), data centres, and a forthcoming policy on artificial intelligence.

With the launch of the Jaipur edition, Business Standard is now published simultaneously across 14 cities in English and seven in Hindi.

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