Industry

In pursuance of the reforms initiated by the Government of India in July, 1991 in fiscal, industrial and trade regimes, the National Mineral Policy was announced in March, 1993. The National Mineral Policy recognized the need for encouraging private investment including Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), and for attracting state-of-art technology ...

MANGALURU: With an aim to tap the full potential of ornamental fishery as a livelihood option and foreign exchange earner, the Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA) has launched a subsidy scheme for setting up of breeding units of colourful aquarium fish and marketing societies in the country. MPEDA, an ...

Department of Biotechnology has initiated an envisage scheme that bridge the gap between laboratory or field reseach and its application to clinical and policy outcomes.This scheme aims to link basic,clinical and public health research. Objective: To provide funding to those organisation that bridge the gap between laboratory research and its ...

  Integrated Power Development (IPDS) scheme launched by Modi Government is basically a new avatar of Restructured Accelerated Power Development Programme. This scheme focuses on improvement of T&D networks across India. It promises help in reduction of AT&C losses, establishment of IT enabled energy accounting / auditing system, improvement in ...

New Delhi: The government on Wednesday approved a new Rs 6,000 crore central scheme ‘SAMPADA’ for the 2016-20 period with an aim to boost processing of marine and agriculture produce. A decision in this regard was taken at the meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), headed by ...

In order to give more freedom to farmers to sell their produce, the agriculture ministry has unveiled “The State/UT Agricultural Produce and Livestocks Marketing (promotion and facilitation) Act, 2017” which has defined each state/UT as a single unified market area. The draft law is proposed to overhaul the existing laws. ...

NEW DELHI: ‘Lakhpati tribal kisans’ have started emerging in Jharkhand, Gujarat, Odisha and Maharashtra in the last two years, thanks to the farm initiatives of Tata Trusts in 450 villages. The boost in farm income has been possible with the Trusts educating and training tribal households in small groups on ...

BHUBANESHWAR: Farmers interested in setting up betel vines in Odisha will now get financial assistance from the State government under the special crop specific scheme launched to promote betel leaf cultivation. They will be provided at least 50 per cent of the first year’s establishment cost. Each farmer developing a ...

Madhya Pradesh has wide spread area of 154.55 lakh hectare of agricultural land, in which 89.70 lakh hectare of land is irrigated. More over 27% of the irrigation is done by small, medium and large enterprises and rest 73 % of irrigation is done by diesel pumps. Apart from Government ...

The central government has extended the Startups Intellectual Property Protection (SIPP) scheme, which aims to help entrepreneurs protect their patents and trademarks, by three years till March 2020, according to a circular issued by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP). Announced as part of the Startup India programme ...