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New Delhi : Gujarat Finance Minister Shri Saurabhbhai Patel yesterday called on Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley and urged him to consider Desert Development Programme (DDP) area at par with Drought Prone Area Programme (DPAP) under Accelerated Irrigation benefit Programme (AIBP) Scheme. He requested that Government of India should …
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Vibrant Gujarat Global Trade Show 2015 will feature power pavillion
New Delhi:Â Gujarat Industries Minister Shri Saurabhbhai Patel today urged the Union Power and Coal Minister Shri Piyush Goyal to direct the concerned authorities to evolve a mechanism for allowing Gujarat DISCOMS to entitle for Renewable Energy Certificates (REC) and sale of solar RE certificates. Shri Patel said that Gujarat is …
Read More »World class saffron park to be set up in India
Pulwama: Shri Radha Mohan Singh, Union Agriculture Minister laid the foundation stone for the Saffron Park Project at Pampore Pulwama in J&K today. The foundation stone ceremony was attended by Shri Ghulam Hassan Mir, Minister for Agriculture, J&K, Shri Nazir Ahmad Khan Gurezi, Minister of State for Agriculture, J&K, Shri …
Read More »Japanese company starts sanitaryware plant in India
Halol(Gujarat): With the provision of Rs 100cr to encourage small and medium enterprises-MSME across the state, Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel today assured to implement Laghu Udyog Protsahan Yojana (small industries’ encouragement scheme). She was inaugurating a sanitary ware plant of Toto India Industries Pvt. Ltd at Halol in Panchamahal. …
Read More »India to open the Defence manufacturing for foreign funds
New Delhi: Keeping the massive defence preparedness in mind, Defence Minister Shri Arun Jaitley has appealed to the defence scientists and technologists of DRDO to work in right earnest to turn the organisation into a hub for defence manufacturing. The Defence Minister was speaking at the Annual DRDO Awards function …
Read More »New Institution to replace the Planning Commission of India
New Delhi: The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, has invited ideas from people on what shape the new institution to replace the Planning Commission can take. A special open forum has been created on the website mygov.nic.in for suggestions on the new institution. “We envision the proposed Institution as one …
Read More »SP Jain Sydney campus celebrates graduation day
More than 200 graduates, guests and senior business leaders gathered at S P Jain School of Global Management, Sydney Olympic Park, to celebrate the graduation of its inaugural cohort of its Bachelor of Business Administration students. Relatives and friends from Australia and overseas joined the graduating batch of 52 students. …
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