The Delhi Government is looking at introducing a flexible education policy apart from easing transport issues in the Capital by plying 10,000 new buses, Manish Sisodia, Deputy Chief Minister, Delhi, said on Tuesday.

There are 3,000 schools in the Capital, of which 1,010 are run by the Government. “We are looking to enforce a flexible education policy under which a student finishing school will have two certificates — one for education and another for skill. He/ she is then free to take up either stream in the future and will also have the option of returning to the other stream,” he said.

Sisodia was speaking on ‘Delhi 2020 — Smart Place to live, work and do business’ at FICCI in New Delhi on Tuesday.

In order to improve the ease of doing business, “we are looking at single windows for clearance, for which all departments will need to be present online”, he added.

In order to make transport better, the State Government is planning to get 10,000 new buses for the city. “We can’t urge people to use public transport if the infrastructure is not good,” Sisodia said, adding that the Government is scouting for land for this purpose.

The Delhi Government is also looking at a unified structure of tax rates. “We believe in keeping reasonable and uniform tax rates with some enforcement. Raids are not the way to boost tax collection, neither is increasing tax rates,” he said.

For the period of April-May 2015, the Delhi Government has registered an increase of about Rs 800 crore in tax collection against the same months in 2014, Sisodia said.

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