DIPP starts preparing reform framework for states rankings
The Dollar Business Bureau (Sourced inputs from PTI) The Commerce and Industry Ministry has started working on a new set of reforms for states that will help them improve their rankings in ease of doing business. In its press release the Commerce and Industries Ministry has said, that the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) in its efforts to improve the business climate in states, has started preparing the next set of business reforms for States to implement. The states will be implementing business reforms of this new framework for next year's assessment of implementation of these reforms, it said. Nearly 20 states/UTs representatives participated and provided suggestions to the DIPP in the meeting. It is in this mission that the government has invited ...
India, Bangladesh agree to promote seeds exchange
The Dollar Business Bureau India and Bangladesh entered into an agreement to initiate the cross-border trade in High-Yielding Varieties (HYV) of rice seeds. A Memorandum of Understanding to this effect was signed between the Seed associations of the two countries, in New Delhi. While a protocol on the HYV of rice seeds has been signed already between the two countries, also involving Nepal, the latest MoU creates a way for formalization of the same between India and Bangladesh. Although there is no formal trade involving the HYV rice seeds currently between the two countries, there exists higher movement of the same (low-value and high-volume trade) through the informal channels, which may possibly create concerns over food security in the two regions, ...