The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) has proposed to appoint survey agencies to ascertain of cost of regulation in the country. The department is undertaking an exercise to assess the cost of regulations in states with a view to further improving the ease of doing business. "DPIIT proposed to undertake the measurement of administrative cost burden related to multiple compliance requirements prescribed by the government departments across the country," according to a request for proposal (RFP) of the department. It said that the objective of this exercise is to conduct the survey of industry users, intermediaries and interviewing experts related to identified services across all states/Union Territories in India. "The DPIIT is seeking to employ the services of qualified survey agencies to assist in this initiative," it added. The objectives of the assignment included objectively measuring the administrative cost burden arising from shortlisted governm