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Cabinet approves new procurement policy for MSEs
01 Nov 2011
Under the new policy, all central ministries, departments and PSUs will have to mandatorily procure 20 per cent of their annual purchases of goods and services from MSEs.
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FM launches government's e-payment system
31 Oct 2011
The system, which will eliminate nearly twenty million cheques, will also help improve efficiency and bring transparency in government's working.
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New manufacturing policy proposes zoning of industries
25 Oct 2011
Land selected for industrial purposes will as far as possible be waste, infertile land not suitable for cultivation, away from any ecologically fragile area.
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12 Oct 2011
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India-Vietnam target $7bn bilateral trade by 2015
12 Oct 2011
India and Vietnam today agreed to work for an early conclusion of India-ASEAN free trade pact in services apart from setting a bilateral trade target of USD 7 billion by 2015 to give a boost to economic ties
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Draft policy sees ITeS sector growing $300 billion-strong by 2020
07 Oct 2011
Since, 80 per cent of the IT industry revenues come from exports, the draft policy proposes to encourage growth of indigenous demand and market to sustain the current growth.
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