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The Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee, who is also Chairperson of the National Implementation Committee to commemorate 150th birth anniversary of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, today launched a new Audio-Visual presentation of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Jana Gana Mana’ poem in full five stanzas by various artists as a salutation to the great poet who gave us India’s National Anthem.
India’s exports have registered a growth of 81.8% during July 2011, at US $ 29.3 billion. Interacting with the media persons here today, Shri Rahul Khullar, Commerce Secretary, informed that during the period April-July 2011, exports have reached a level of US $ 108.3 billion, a growth of 54% while the imports were US $ 151 billion with a growth of 40% and a trade deficit of US $ 42.7 billion, during the same period. During the interaction, Shri Khullar also informed that India’s imports in July 2011 were US $ 40.4 billion registering the growth of 51.5%. Balance of trade for the month of July 2011 stood at 11.1 billion US dollar.
The Passport Seva Project (PSP), a flagship e-Governance initiative has been undertaken by the Ministry of External Affairs to comprehensively reform the passport issuance system. The PSP aims at delivering all passport related services to the citizens in a timely, transparent, more accessible and reliable manner.
The Union Cabinet today gave its approval for divestment of 10% of total paid up equity of National Buildings Construction Corporation Ltd. (NBCC) out of its holding through Initial Public Offering (IPO) in the domestic market. The Government of India holds 100% of the equity in the Company. This will lead to NBCC listing its shares in the Stock Exchanges. A portion of the shares to be offered for sale through IPO shall be reserved for the employees of the Company.
The Hon’ble Sikkim High Court has upheld the conviction of Shri Nar Bahadur Bhandari, the then Chief Minister of Sikkim, Shri P.K. Pradhan (IAS), the then Secretary, Rural Development Deptt., Govt. of Sikkim and others U/s 120(B) IPC and Section 5(1)(d) of Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947. However, the sentence of simple imprisonment of six months passed by the trial court has been reduced to one month with a fine of Rs 5000/- as more then 27 years have passed since the commission of the offence and during the interregnum, the appellant had no doubt suffered in body and mind. While against the other accused, the sentence of imprisonment was set aside and sentence of payment of fine remained unaltered. Sentence against 4 of the private parties was set aside.
The Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas Shri S. Jaipal Reddy informed the Rajya Sabha in a written reply today that the cost of production by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) and Oil India Limited (OIL) in the year 2010-11 is US$ 37.29 per barrel and US$ 27.76 per barrel respectively.
Shri Anand Sharma, Union Minister of Commerce & Industry and Textiles delivered an inaugural address at the launch of “Africa manual 2011- opportunities unlimited”, here today. Speaking on the occasion the Minister said, “India is keen to partner with countries in Africa not only for buying minerals but also providing technology for mining and exploration and value addition with long-term buy-back commitments”. India is also committed to work with our partners in Africa for addressing the infrastructure deficit. India’s infrastructure investments in Africa are in the range of US $ 500 million annually in the last decade, he added.
There is no such proposal to close the inoperative Employees Provident Fund accounts. However, from 1st April, 2011, interest is not being credited to the account of a member from the date on which it has become inoperative account.
The Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee said that the recent developments in the US and Eurozone have injected certain uncertainty in global markets. The Finance Minister said that these developments could have some impact on our economy as well. But Shri Mukherjee assured that India’s growth story is intact and its fundamentals are strong. The Finance Minister Shri Mukherjee said that we are in a better position than many other nations to manage this challenge.
The draft proposals being negotiated in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) for agricultural trade liberalisation include several special provisions for developing countries. These include, inter alia, lower tariff cuts than those to be undertaken by developed countries, self-designation of Special Products that would take lower or no tariff cuts and a Special Safeguard Mechanism that would allow imposition of an additional duty in the event of a surge in import volumes or a fall in prices.
