Results: Business Establishment Cost

Business Establishment cost is one of the most important components of the Economic Environment Index as it assumes 18% of total weight. Higher scores in the business establishment cost means it is less costly to establish business in that district.

Nilgiris tops that Ranking with the overall score of 0.93 followed by Namakkal (0.89), Nagpattinam (0.78), Salem(0.77) and Tiruvaruar(0.76) to form the top five. Nilgiris, Namakkal and Nagpattinam have registered good performance in all the constituent indicators of Business Establishment cost.

Salem district with overall rank of 4 performs well in all the indicators except the land acquisition process where its score is worst among the entire districts. Madurai district has relatively lower number of approval requirement and time to start new business but its low score in rest of the indicators pushes down the overall ranking to 27th.