Regional director Asteria Caberte of the Department of Trade and Industry in Central Visayas has called on local government units in Siquijor province to streamline business processing and issuance of permits, to improve government frontline services.

Lazi Mayor Orpheus Fua has started the computerization of business processing this year as an initial step to the Business Permits and Licensing Streamlining System.

The towns of Larena and Siquijor committed to align the quality of their management system to ISO standards. These are few of the commitments that came out during the presentation of harmonized Provincial SMED Plan recently.

Caberte said the province can replicate Cebu's initiative of providing a hassle-free business registration, permitting and licensing with the setting up of a one-stop-shop office by the National Economic Research and Business Assistance Center with the DTI as the lead agency.

This will reduce the processing time in securing business permits and narrowed the possibility of red tape, she said, stressing that reduction of the cost of doing business with the government should be made top priority.

Recently, the DTI-7, the Cebu City government and the four mandatory agencies that are involved in business registration, permitting and licensing (Bureau of Internal Revenue, Social Security System PhilHealth an Pag-IBIG Fund) have finally made a "break through" by setting up their respective desks at the NERBAC-7, Caberte added*

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