Exports of beef haven't come down: Harsimrat
The Dollar Business Bureau Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Tuesday said that there is no decline in the exports of buffalo meat from legal slaughter houses in the country. The latest crackdown of illegal abattoirs in Uttar Pradesh is in compliance with the order of Supreme Court to check environment pollution and to protect the health of people, the Minister added. India, the biggest exporter of buffalo meat, shipped $3.76 billion worth of meat in the financial year 2016-17, according to Ministry of Commerce data. In April, the exports of beef dropped by 10.35% to $257.06 million compared to $287 million in the same month last year, as per the data given in Agricultural & Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) data. “As far as I know, the export (of ...
Projects worth 10 lakh crore cleared by Env Min: Javadekar
PTI Over 2,000 projects involving Rs 10 lakh crore investment, which were stuck for years and some of them in key sectors, have been given environmental clearance in the last two years, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Tuesday. Javadekar also said that in line with the government's policy of ease of doing business the average waiting period for approval of projects has been brought down to 190 days from 600 days during the UPA regime and the aim now is to slash it further to 100 days. Some of the projects cleared by the Environment Ministry in the last two years were in important sectors such as roads, railway network, pipelines, irrigation canal, and they remained stuck for ...
Arun Jaitley for corporatising major ports
Sisir Pradhan| The Dollar Business For a long time now, India's major ports have been reeling under infrastructure bottlenecks, leading to massive delays in cargo movement, which have seen them losing out to non-major ports. But what can be termed as a silver lining, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has promised to encourage “ports in public sector to corporatise, and become companies under the Companies Act”. But this, given that the port sector is probably the last fortress of trade unionism in India, is easier said than done. Maybe, that’s why Jaitley stopped short of a full-fledged announcement and used the term ‘encouraged’. Challenges Galore While this is a necessary first step to help India's major-ports reach global standards, ...
