Government must take steps to promote flow of funding to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in order to ensure growth in the sector. According to a Ficci-Grant Thornton survey, inadequate credit facility is one of the factors that thwart the expansion plant of majority of companies in the sector
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Recovery in sight for small MFIs in FY14
Venkatesh N, Managing Director of Samasta Microfinance expects smaller microfinance institutions (MFIs) to regain their financial position in 2013-14. He expects recovery in the financial position of these MFIs to be driven by the renewed interest of banks and risk capital investors in the sector
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Net profit of PNB declines 21%
Net profit of state-owned Punjab National Bank declined almost 21 percent to Rs 1,131 crore during January-March 2013 owing to rise in provisions. The state-run firm witnessed 44 percent rise in provisions on a year-on-year basis to Rs 1,478 crore. Total provisions were inclusive of all components like loans, investment and gratuity
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Allahabad Bank to reduce bad loans
Agency reports indicate that Allahabad Bank intends to bring down its gross non-performing assets (NPAs) to around 3.2 per cent by March 2014 from 3.92 per cent in 2012-13. Shubhalakshmi Panse, Chairman and Managing Director of the bank is quoted as saying that the bank was monitoring bad accounts on a daily basis along with focus on recovery
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FM meets bankers, industrialists to speed up projects
Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram on May 14 met top bank executives and leading industrialists in Bangalore on speeding up execution of infrastructure projects by addressing procedural and structural issues.
The finance minister has assured the industrialists all help in executing pending projects and kick-starting new projects to spur growth and attract more investments in the infrastructure sector, especially power, roads, highways and ports, a leading industrialist who participated in the
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Net profit of R-Infra rises 76%
During Jan-Mar 2013, the net profit of Reliance Infrastructure (R-Infra) grew a whopping 76 per cent to Rs 725 crore from Rs 411 crore in the year-ago period. However, the firm's total income from operations declined 15.3 per cent to Rs 6,187 crore from Rs 7,135 crore in the same quarter of 2011-12. The decline in incom
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Experts suggest India to attract Chinese funds for infra projects
Some experts suggest that India may attract the huge foreign exchange reserves of China, estimated to be about $3 trillion, towards its infrastructure sector. Experts suggest the Indian government to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) from China into the infrastructure sector, which needs $1 trillion funding during
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IAML signs pact with 8 banks on acquiring infra loans
IL&FS Infra Asset Management (IAML), an Asset Management Company (AMC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with eight Public Sector Banks (PSBs) for acquisition of infrastructure loans. IAML was promoted by IL&FS Financial Services (IFIN) to manage the IL&FS Infrastructure Debt Fund (IIDF
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Govt may implement change in FDI control definition prospectively
In an interview to a leading newspaper, Union Commerce Minister Anand Sharma that the proposed changes in the definition of foreign Ăâcontrol and ownershipĂâ would be applicable prospectively. Applying the proposed change in definition is necessary to protect the interest of foreign companies that entered into joint-ventures, partnerships or inves
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Govt mops up over Rs 190 bn via duty on fuel
Union Minister of State for Petroleum & Natural Gas Panabaaka Lakshmi informed the Rajya Sabha that the total amount collected from Additional Excise Duty during 2012-13 (Provisional) is 19,333 crore. Lakshmi said that the amounts collected during 2011-12 and 2010-11 are Rs 18,428 crore and Rs 16,979 crore respectively