Companies Registered Under Companies Act The Number of Companies registered under the Companies Act during the year 2014-15 is 64,395. The number of Companies listed in stock exchange during the year 2014-15 is 66. The total authorised capital of public and private limited companies registered during the year 2014-15 is Rs.8,826.80 crore and 22,953.93 crore… Read More »
KPMG Survey on CSR The KPMG report available in public domain regarding a survey of Corporate Responsibility (CR) Reporting by 4500 companies across 45 countries in 2015, places India as the leading country in terms of reporting Corporate Responsibility. The key findings of the survey suggest inter alia, (a) India has the highest CR reporting… Read More »
Institutional Guidelines Adopted by CCI As mandated under the Competition Act, 2002, the Competition Commission of India may impose penalties, and/or issue cease & desist order in appropriate cases. However, while imposing penalties under section 27 of the Act, the Commission takes into account the aggravating and mitigating factors before arriving at the fair and… Read More »
Spreading Jam across India’s Economy The Economic Survey 2015-16 presented here today in the Parliament by the Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley emphasizes that JAM Trinity –Jan dhan, Aadhaar, Mobile- can help government to implement large-scale, technology-enabled and real-time Direct Benefit Transfers (DBTs) to improve economic lives of India’s poor. First variety of JAM-… Read More »
Reform Package of the Fertilizer Sector The Economic Survey 2015-16 presented here today in the Parliament by the Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley emphasizes that the Government budgeted Rs. 73,000 crore- about 0.5 per cent of GDP- on fertilizer subsidies in 2015-16. Nearly 70 per cent of this amount was allocated to urea, the… Read More »
Economy will continue to Weather Global Sluggishness with Resilience; Outlook of Multilateral Institutions positive for India Multilateral Institutions in their latest assessments have underlined that in the short run, Indian growth may fall short of its growth potential of 8-9 per cent, but the economy could continue weathering the global sluggishness with resilience and consolidate… Read More »
Agriculture Sector needs a Transformation to ensure Sustainable Livelihoods for the Farmers and Food Security Economic Survey Emphasizes to Improved Productivity in Agriculture Disbursal of Subsidy on Fertilizers should Shift to DBT Fixed Amount of Subsidy in the case of P And K Fertilizer Subsidy There needs to be a Shift to Demand-Driven Agricultural Advisory… Read More »
Making Investments in Maternal Nutrition and Sanitation and Changing Social Norms to Enhance their Effectiveness can help to Exploit India’s Demographic Dividend The National Food Security Act and Swachh Bharat are part of the Government’s Policy Agenda to Improve Maternal and Early Life Health The Economic Survey 2015-16 presented today in the Parliament by the… Read More »
Economy to clock more than 7 per cent growth this fiscal; Economic Survey 2015-16 predicts over 8 per cent growth in next couple of years. The Economic Survey 2015-16 presented here today in the Parliament by the Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley emphasizes that Indian economy will continue to grow more than 7 percent… Read More »
Impressive strides made in the power sector in the last two years: addition of record generation capacity, moves towards one market in power, reform of discoms and development of renewable energy Time is ripe for industries to absorb excess generation capacity through “Open Access” to energize “Make in India” A progressive tariff structure can reduce… Read More »