I remember recently reading a lot of articles on India trying to attract manufacturing plants in the country. Do they have to face the same issues as outlined by OP or are they handled differently?

Also, are they looking at streamlining some of these processes?

I don't have a problem with few of the questions that OP complained about. For example, the health certificate looks like something, they might ask to check for health safety in the workplace and also probably to see natural resources outside are not being polluted.