Economy
Pvt sector urged to discharge environmental responsibility
THE Minister for Environment and Forests, Mr. T.R. Baalu, has urged the private sector to discharge its environmental responsibility, keeping in tune with its role in the economy.

Net private transfers in invisible accounts surge
NET private transfers have begun to play a crucial role in stabilising the country's balance of payments.

Call for panel to prescribe WTO-compatible NTBs
THE Merchants' Chamber of Commerce (MCC) has sought the setting up of a high-power standing committee for suggesting WTO-compatible non-tariff barriers (NTBs) to be put up by India as a counter-strategy.

CII for population management plan
THE need for forming a consortium of non-governmental organisations and the private corporate sector to aid the Government in provisions and outreach of the basic and reproductive child health care, has been stressed at a day-long seminar on `Population and development: Prospects for private-public partnership'.

SSI


SSI infrastructure fund mooted
A SINGLE comprehensive law for small-scale industrial (SSI) sector, permission for non-SSI units to take up production of any of the SSI-reserved 812 items with 30 per cent export obligation, raising of investment ceiling from Rs. 1 crore to Rs. 5 crores for plant and machinery for export-oriented units in leather products, garments, hosiery, hand tools, toys, packaging material, auto components, pharma products and food processing constitute the key recommendations of a Study Group on Development of Sm all Enterprises.

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