FIEO agro panel to draft roadmap for the creation of two million jobs
Mangalore: The FIEO committee on Agro Exports will draft a comprehensive road map to assist the Union ministry of commerce in achieving its target of creating two million additional jobs.

In a release, Walter D'Souza, convenor of the FIEO Committee on Agro Exports and AEZ, said that the target of achieving exports of the order of $120bn in 2006-07 sounds logical, and given the right incentives was achievable.

However, generation of two million additional jobs vis-à-vis the 20 per cent growth in dollar terms is too ambitious without having a re-look at the same in key areas of agro exports.
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Bihar to set up higher education institutes
New Delhi: With the objective of improving the quality of manpower and upgrading skills of the workforce in the State, Bihar is setting up a law university, a medical college, a management and other such institutes.

Speaking at a business meeting, organised by the FICCI, the Bihar chief minister, Nitish Kumar, said, "Our priority is on human development in the area of education and health care and we believe in good governance, development and maintenance of law and order."

"We are also focusing on connecting rural areas with state highways, district and rural roads for which the State has set apart Rs2,000 crore," he said.
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