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Excise cut on footwear, food processing machinery

Excise cut on footwear, food processing machinery

New Delhi, Jul 10 (KNN)  Empowering the SMEs to put their best foot forward the Union Budget proposes halving excise duty on the footwear industry from…
Steps to revive TV manufacture in SMEs unveiled

Steps to revive TV manufacture in SMEs…

New Delhi, Jul 10 (KNN)  In order to see revival of television manufacturing among the SMEs, Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley has proposed to exempt colour…
Big boost to solar, wind energy

Big boost to solar, wind energy

New Delhi, Jul 10 (KNN) To promote solar and wind energy, the government today announced a slew of measures for encouraging domestic manufacturing of the equipment…
MSME definition to change; Rs 10,000 cr fund for start-ups

MSME definition to change; Rs 10,000 cr…

New Delhi, Jul 10 (KNN) Meeting long-pending demand from the industry, the government today agreed to review the definition of MSME and provide for higher…
Mega textile clusters at Varanasi & 6 other centres

Mega textile clusters at Varanasi & 6…

New Delhi, Jul 10 (KNN)  The Centre will support a mega textile cluster at Varanasi where a Rs 50 crore trade facilitation centre and a Craft Museum will…
Govt to launch skill development plan

Govt to launch skill development plan

New Delhi, Jul 10 (KNN) The Government proposes to launch a national multi skill programme for skill development at the level of artisans and workers.
Allocation of Rs 7060 crore for 'Smart Cities'

Allocation of Rs 7060 crore for 'Smart…

New Delhi, Jul 10 (KNN) The Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has provided a sum of Rs 7060 crore in the current financial year for developing 100 smart cities.…
Five new IITs & five new IIMS proposed

Five new IITs & five new IIMS…

New Delhi, Jul 10 (KNN) The Government will set-up five more IITs in Jammu and Kashmir, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala. Similarly, five new IIMs…
Tax sops for real estate investment trusts

Tax sops for real estate investment trusts

New Delhi, Jul 10 (KNN)  To attract domestic and foreign investment into real estate, the government has proposed incentives for Real Estate Investment…
E-visas at 9 airports; Rs 500 cr for 5 tourist circuits

E-visas at 9 airports; Rs 500 cr…

New Delhi, Jul 10 (KNN)  The facility of Electronic Travel Authorisation (e-Visa) shall be introduced in a phased manner at nine airports in India, helping…
Budget highlights on tax

Budget highlights on tax

New Delhi, Jul 10 (KNN)
 
·        Hikes Excise Duty On Gutka To 70 per cent From 60 per cent  
Budget highlights relating to SMEs

Budget highlights relating to SMEs

New Delhi, Jul 10 (KNN) 

·       Additional Rs 1000 cr to boost rail connectivity  
Budget should exempt MSME from ESI & PF for first 2 years: KASSIA

Budget should exempt MSME from ESI &…

Bengaluru, Jul 9 (KNN)  Ahead of the Union Budget 2014-15 to be presented in Parliament tomorrow, industry association KASSIA has said that the new budget…
Medium-term challenge for Indian mfg is to move from lower to higher-tech sectors

Medium-term challenge for Indian mfg is to…

New Delhi, Jul 9 (KNN) The medium-term challenge for Indian manufacturing is to move from lower to higher-tech sectors, from lower to higher value added sectors,…
Concerns of Bikaner Bhujiya makers raised in Parliament

Concerns of Bikaner Bhujiya makers raised in…

New Delhi, Jul 9 (KNN) An MP from Bikaner has raised the issue of lack of coordination between the centre and the state in implementation of mega food park…
Online master classes on export

Online master classes on export

New Delhi, Jul 9 (KNN) To help exporting companies comply with standards and regulations across major importing countries, thereby lowering export rejection,…
SMBs to double IT budget in 3 years, says Nasscom-F&S report

SMBs to double IT budget in 3…

New Delhi, Jul 9 (KNN) India's small and medium businesses (SMBs) are expected to double their IT spend to over Rs 1 lakh crore (USD 18.6 billion) by 2017-18…
UP govt for setting up solar plants to tide over power shortage

UP govt for setting up solar plants…

Lucknow, Jul 9 (KNN)  Solar plants with a minimum capacity of one MW can be set up in Uttar Pradesh, a move to help the state tide over power shortages…
Centre asks states to procure bicycles from domestic units

Centre asks states to procure bicycles from…

New Delhi, Jul 9 (KNN)  The Centre has asked the states to procure bicycles for their different welfare schemes from the domestic manufacturers to…
UP tourism policy promote heritage sites

UP tourism policy promote heritage sites

Lucknow, Jul 9 (KNN) The Uttar Pradesh Government has approved a new policy to promote heritage tourism in the state that will give special incentives to developing…

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