NEW DELHI: State governments have urged the Centre to reduce the action points for reforms to a doable number for this year’s ease of doing business ranking, raising issues with the agenda drawn up by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion ( DIPP ).After cutting the number of action points to less than 300, the department had introduced sub-points, taking the total to nearly 680 reforms. In contrast, last year states had to implement 340 reforms and the rankings were based on the outcome achieved.The DIPP, while stressing that it had brought down the number of reforms, had gone for a deeper dive into every individual action point. This nearly doubled the work for states this year.“States have conveyed that it would not be possible to implement so many reforms within a few months… We are still finalising the final set of reforms,” said a senior government official, who did not wish to be identified.The government has this year drawn focus on specific sectoral reforms at state level in areas such as transport pharma and fertiliser.In consultation with the World Bank, the government has clubbed various reforms to reduce the overall number of headline reforms. However, for each reform states have been given a series of detailed action points which has increased their task.Due to the delay in the finalisation of reforms agenda for states, the rankings for 2017 are likely to miss the October deadline. Andhra Pradesh and Telangana tied for the first spot in last year’s rankings.