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Himanshu Vatsa | The Dollar Business Even as the government is likely to reintroduce the interest subvention scheme to encourage outbound shipment from the country, exporters say that the scheme should be implemented from retrospective effect. As per the interest subvention scheme enforced till March 2014, exporters used to get a rebate of up to 3% in the interest on their loan. According to Commerce Secretary Rajeev Kher, the government is in the process of reintroducing the scheme by the end of this month. Kher said that a decision to fix the rate of interest benefit and sectors to be included in the scheme is yet to be taken. Experts believe that such schemes will encourage mainly handicrafts, garments and other ...

Vanita Peter D’souza| The Dollar Business Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Minister of State for Textile in the presence of Dr. Sanjay Kumar Panda, Secretary Textile and Samir Kumar Biswas, Development Commissioner (Handicrafts), checking carpets at the Indian Carpet Expo conducted by the Carpet Export Promotion Council (CEPC) on March 27, 2015, at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi.   To showcase the weaving skills of Indian hand-knotted carpet artisans amongst the overseas carpet buyers, Carpet Export Promotion Council (CEPC) had launched the 29th Edition of India Carpet Expo on March 27, 2015, in New Delhi. The expo was inaugurated by Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Minister of State for Textile in the presence of Dr. Sanjay Kumar Panda, Secretary Textile and Mr. Samir Kumar Biswas, ...