The World Bank’s ‘ease of doing business’ report considers a number of factors in its assessment. These _____________ what it takes to start a business, procuring licences and permits to operate, registering properties, protection of minority investors, certainty in taxation, enforcement of contracts and resolving insolvency. The government _____________ to get India in the top 50 within the next two years. For that to be achieved, for starters, arbitrary bans and diktats need _____________. Meat sellers and businesses, both in the organised and unorganised sectors, have been _____________, as have the food chains selling meat-based food products. With revenues being lost, and unexpected impediments to doing business, this unpredictability and wanton disregard for the interests of businesses hardly bodes well.