Union Budget 2023-24 has a slew of measures to give boost to exports and help accelerated growth of manufacturing in the country.  The indirect tax simplification and rationalization has a clear export-oriented focus. Following are highlights for export and manufacturing Sector: The Department of Commerce’s recommendation on lab grown diamond (LGD) has been accepted whereby the research grant of Rs. ...

Union Minister of Civil Aviation and Steel, Shri Jyotiraditya M. Scindia along with General Dr. Vijay Kumar Singh (Rtd.) today inaugurated a flight connecting Bhubaneswar, Kolkata, and Jamshedpur. IndiaOne Air will operate this route from 31st January 2023. These operations shall be increased to daily operations effective from 01st February 2023 under the RCS-UDAN scheme. The schedule of the operations would ...

Chairman, Khadi and Village Industries Commission Shri Manoj Kumar today released  margin money grant of Rs 100.29 crore to 3223 beneficiaries of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand under the Prime Minister Employment Generation Program (PMEGP) implemented by KVIC in Varanasi .   Shri Ravindra Jaiswal,  Minister of State , Govt. of U.P. , Dr. Sunil Patel, MLA (Rohania), ...

The G20 Startup20 Engagement Group will hold its inception meeting in Hyderabad this week, featuring delegates from G20 nations and nine special invitees from observer countries, representatives from multilateral organizations as well as the Indian startup ecosystem. The group formed under G20 after India assumed presidency will convene from January 28-29 anticipating a productive development of policy recommendations on entrepreneurship ...

The Central Government under Section 20A of the MMDR Act has issued directions and circulated guidelines for Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kalyan Yojna (PMKKKY) on 16.09.2015 to be implemented by the District Mineral Foundations (DMF) for taking up development and welfare projects/programs in mining affected areas. Further, Section 9B and Section 15(4) of MMDR Act empowers State Governments to frame ...

Ministry of Coal has launched 6th round of commercial coal mine auctions on November 03, 2022 along with 2nd attempt of 5th round of commercial coal mine auctions. The due date for submission of online & offline bids was December 30, 2022. The Ministry has organized Investor’s Conclaves in Mumbai, Bengaluru and  Indore recently for  which tremendous response was received.  Many requests for ...

To help achieve the aim of making Internet Open, Safe and Trusted and Accountable and to regulate the intermediaries, including social media intermediaries, and in exercise of powers conferred by the Information Technology Act, 2000the Central Government has made the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. These rules cast specific obligation on intermediaries to observe ...

Secretary, Ministry of Food Processing Industries, Smt Anita Praveen chaired a roundtable interaction with senior officials from central ministries and departments on 15th December, 2022 at Vigyan Bhawan Annexe, New Delhi. This was the third session in the series of roundtable interactions which are being held with key stakeholders such as major agri-food companies, resident commissioners of States and UTs. The ...

The Government has not limited the expansion of mines by amending the renewal of licences rule in the Mineral Concession Rules in the country including Rajasthan. Rather, a uniform lease period of 50 years has been prescribed to ensure certainty in mining lease period. The Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 [MMDR Act, 1957] was amended with effect ...

The Government has vested power in the State Governments for enacting laws to check illegal mining. Section 23C of Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act (MMDR Act) 1957, empowers the State Governments to frame rules to prevent illegal mining and the State Governments may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make such rules for preventing illegal mining, transportation and ...