India, Jan. 11 -- New Delhi: Ease of doing business dashboards of the Central government are helping individuals and firms avail faster customs clearance services. The digitised processes also provide the facility of real-time tracking of the shipment under the clearance process.

Information Technology initiatives have made possible faster clearance and real-time assistance. On November last year, the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) had launched two dashboards-ICEDASH and ATITHI-for improved monitoring and speed of customs clearance of imported goods and now both of the initiatives have started showing results.

According to the CBIC, ICEDASH is an "ease of doing business (EoDB) monitoring dashboard" of the Indian Cust...