इन प्रयासों को… सार्वभौम रेटिंग उन्नयन और हमारी कारोबार सुगमता रैंकिंग में तीव्र वृद्धि के रूप में अंतर्राष्ट्रीय मान्यता मिली है… कारोबार सुगमता का एक महत्वपूर्ण पहलू संविदाओं को लागू कराने और विवाद सुलझाने की क्षमता है। इसलिए हम वादा करते हैं कि पाँच वर्षों के भीतर न्यायपालिका के साथ साझेदारी/समन्वय में क़ानूनी व्यवस्था की क्षमता में उल्लेखनीय वृद्धि करेंगे।

The 2019 manifesto makes ease of doing business both a boast and a promise. The boast: reforms have "been internationally recognized with a sovereign rating upgrade and a sharp rise in our Ease of Doing Business ranking." The promise, more specific: "we promise to significantly increase the capacity of the legal system within five years in partnership/co-ordination with the judiciary", because "An important aspect of the ease of doing business is the ability to enforce contracts and resolve disputes."

The boast referred to India's climb in the World Bank's Doing Business rankings, from 142nd in 2014 to 63rd in the 2020 edition. That climb was real as measured. The measure is not.

The Ministry of Commerce and Industry states the position plainly: "Ease of doing business ranking was done by World Bank through Doing Business Report from 2002 to 2020… World Bank had discontinued its Doing Business Report in 2020." The report was withdrawn after an independent review commissioned by the Bank found data irregularities affecting several countries' scores in the 2018 and 2020 editions. Whatever one concludes about India's own numbers, the yardstick the manifesto cited no longer exists and cannot be used to verify either the past claim or subsequent progress.

India's domestic substitute has stalled too. The Business Reforms Action Plan, run by DPIIT since 2014, grades states as Top Achievers, Achievers, Fast Movers or Aspirers on reform implementation. Two sentences in the answer matter: "The BRAP ranking across States has been discontinued after the initial years", and "The latest assessment under the BRAP was conducted for the year 2022." A BRAP 2024 round was designed, with 30 per cent weight on evidence and 70 per cent on user feedback, but its results are not reported here.

So as of August 2025 there is no current national measure of ease of doing business in India — not the World Bank's, not the government's own — and the accuracy of this claim is therefore recorded as unverifiable.

On the promise that can be assessed in principle — increasing the capacity of the legal system to enforce contracts and resolve disputes — this answer says nothing, and no figures on judicial vacancies, commercial court disposal or average time to enforce a contract appear in any document we hold. Commercial courts were established under a 2015 Act and mediation was made a pre-institution requirement in 2018, both before this promise; whether capacity increased significantly in the five years after it is not evidenced.