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Punjab zone: Sugar association wants interest-free loans
2015-03-27 07:50:55| Sugar Industry News
LAHORE: The Punjab zone of the Pakistan Sugar Mills Association (PSMA) is demanding the government to provide interest-free loans at a three- or five-year term to safeguard sugarcane growers in the province.
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Shanta Kumars FCI report may make Punjab lose revenue
2015-01-23 06:40:58| Agriculture - Topix.net
If the recommendations of a committee headed by senior BJP leader Shanta Kumar on restructuring of the Food Corporation of India are accepted, Punjab will suffer revenue loss of around Rs 2,000 crore every year. The committee's report, submitted to the Union government on Thursday, has recommended cutting down taxes levied on foodgrains procured in the state from the present 14.5% to just 3%.
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With Rs 25000 cr at stake plan to unbundle FCI unnerves Punjab
2014-10-03 07:25:25| Agriculture - Topix.net
As the process is on for the unbundling of the Food Corporation of India that drives the public distribution system , Punjab has at stake Bharatiya Janata Party parliamentarian Shanta Kumar, who leads the unbundling and restructuring committee, has hinted that the corporation with an annual outlay of 2-lakh crore could be split into four companies to separate procurement, transportation, storage, and distribution. "Who will then clear our pending payment for these functions," a senior officer in the state food and civil supplies department raised the question on Thursday.
Punjab, Haryana reap rich harvest at FCI's expense
2014-06-25 13:53:26| Agriculture - Topix.net
Grain-surplus states including Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha have increased their tax revenue from Food Corporation of India over the last few years.
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Sterlite Grid Awarded Power Transmission Project to Deliver Over 1000 MW of Electricity from Punjab to the Kashmir Valley
2014-06-13 17:25:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Sterlite Technologies Ltd., Puna, India, a leading global provider of transmission solutions for the telecom data and power industries, announced that Sterlite Grid Ltd. has been awarded its sixth ultra-mega transmission project (UMTP) on a build-own-operate basis by the Ministry of Power, Government of India. read more