Finance minister P Chidambaram expressed confidence that the economy will grow at 6 percent in 2013-14. It may be recalled that the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) expects the economy to expand at 5 percent in 2012-13. The minister said he would ask public sector companies to submit their annual investment plan for the nex
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Institutions struggle to raise funds via tax-free bonds
Reports indicate that institutions that are allowed to raise tax-free bonds in 2012-13 could mop up only Rs 25,000 crore as against the permission to raise Rs 60,000 crore. It is learnt that investors are not showing much interest in the tax-free bonds as interest rates are expected to fall further in the coming months. Yield on tax-free bonds are set below the yield of the 10-year ben
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SAIL proposes Rs 130 bn investment in 2013-14
In order to raise its production capacity, from the current million tonne per annum (mn tpa), state-run Steel Authority of India (SAIL) proposes to invest Rs 13,000 crore in 2013-14. Of the total amount, Bhilai Steel Plant may get the highest share at Rs 5,900 crore for installation of a 700 ton
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Kolkata Port awaits centre’s nod for Rs 78 bn project
Kolkata Port Trust Chairman RPS Kahlon informed that the port was awaiting cabinet approval from the centre for the Rs 7851 crore Sagar port project in West Bengal. The West Bengal cabinet had approved the project and Kahlon expects the union cabinet to clear it soon
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Pace of execution of highway projects slows down
Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways Sarvey Sathyanarayana informed Lok Sabha that the pace of execution of national highway projects has slowed because of various hurdles. The hurdles include delay in land acquisition, shifting of utilities, environmental and forest clearances, the minister informed. He also pointed to the shortage of skilled and semi-skilled manpower and economic slowdown as further road
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Union budget may boost growth in infra sector
Union Budget 2013-14 is expected to boost growth in the infrastructure sector as it has announced several new initiatives. For example, the budget proposed taking up two new cities -" Dholera in Maharashtra and Shendra Bidkin in Gujarat -" under the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Project. Finance Minister P Chidambaram said the government will provide additional funds for the project in 20
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Shriram Group mulls foray into banking business
With the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) releasing guidelines for new bank licenses, a slew of industry conglomerates are interested to make a foray into banking business. One among them is the Chennai-based Shriram Group, promoted by R Thyagarajan. The group, which is one of the contenders for a banking licence, said it want
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PSBs to get Rs 125 bn capital in FY13
Government proposed to infuse an amount of Rs 12,517 crore in Public Sector Banks(PSBĂâs) to augment their Tier-1 capital in FY-2012-13. A sum of Rs 12,000 crore was infused during 2011-12 to enable them to maintain a minimum Tier-1 CRAR of 8 per cent. Performance of Indian banks during the year 2011-12 was conditioned to a large extent by fragile recovery of global financial markets as well as a challenging oper
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Indian banking sector has less systemic risk
Industry players feel that the systemic risk in the Indian banking sector is muted because of the existence of many medium and small size banks. It may be noted that systemic risk arises when there are large-sized or too big to fail banks. However, in India, many banks are medium and small-sized and hence there is less risk of inter-connectedness, indu
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India Inc’s overseas borrowing rises in January
Data from Reserve Bank of India (RBI) shows that overseas borrowing of Indian companies rose to $3.51 billion in January from $1.15 billion in the previous month. The companies raised the amount through external commercial borrowings (ECB) and foreign currency convertible bonds (FCCB). In order to fund its projects, Power Grid Corporation of In India Inc raised over $ 3.51 billion from overseas markets in January through external commercial borrowings and foreign currency convertible bonds.
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