The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways is starting a massive exercise to diagnose the deficiencies in the infrastructure and system. It will come up with solutions for seamless movement of big carriers or trailers on the highways that connect six-seven major ports such as JNPT in Mumbai, Kandla and Haldia, besides key manufacturing hubs.
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RBI releases GIRO Advisory Group report
The Reserve Bank of India had announced the constitution of a GIRO Advisory Group (GAG) under the chairmanship of Prof. Umesh Bellur, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay to implement a national GIRO-based Indian Bill Payment System. The GAG submitted its report on March 20, 2014 to the Reserve Bank of India. The GAG has observed that bill payments landscape in the country are mostly biller-specific and thus do not provide an environment to customers to make bill payments through an inter oper
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Caution! Danger ahead
Despite efforts to ensure road safety, road deaths and accidents continue to climb creating a question mark on the efforts being put in ensuring safe road infrastructure. Infrastructure Today looks to understand the constraints in ensuring safe road infrastructure.
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RCap expects to reduce debt if given bank license
The debt-to-equity ratio of Reliance Capital would decline to 0.5 from 1.7 if the company manages to get banking license from Reserve Bank of India (RBI). It may be recalled that the central bank invited application for new bank licenses from corporates, non banking finance companies and other entities earlier. Follo
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Continuous licensing may boost competition in banking sector
In order to ensure competitiveness in the banking sector, there is a need to adopt a 'continuous authorisation' policy, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said in a research paper. The paper calls for reviewing the current 'Stop and Go' licensing policy and adopt a 'continuous authorisation' policy as continuous authorisation keeps the competitive pres
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RBI to continue purchase of govt bonds
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) continues to purchase government bonds through the open market operation (OMO) in order to ease liquidity constraint in the banking system. This was hinted by Economic Affairs Secretary Arvind Mayaram when he said the government doesn't think the central bank has slowed the pace of its bond purchase programme
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Minister highlights difficulty in passing financial laws
Finance Minister P Chidambaram remarked that it was very complex and difficult to pass financial sector laws by a coalition government. He mentioned the case of the Companies Bill, which was cleared by the Lok Sabha and is awaiting the nod of the Rajya Sabha. He said this while addressing the third national seminar on ‘India Financial Code’ organised by the Institu
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India Post’s banking dream gets thumbs down from govt
Unconfirmed reports indicate that the union finance ministry opposes the proposal of India Port to foray into banking venture. Officials of the finance ministry raised doubt about the ability of India Post to conduct banking business. It may be recalled that India Post plans to apply for a banking license from
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Experts advocate private regulatory mechanism
While the debate on regulating large conglomerates of financial companies continues, some experts argue that private (or market-based) regulatory mechanisms may be more efficient in certain cases compared to government regulatory mechanism. These experts argue that government regulators could be captured by special interests—of both the corporate and populist kind. And there is good reason to believe that instances of this kind have occurred in India, expe
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TN govt to introduce land acquisition policy
Tamil Nadu government plans to introduce a land acquisition policy considering that non-availability of land for industrial units is a major hurdle in attracting new investments in the manufacturing sector, Governor K Rosaiah said. He said this at the customary GovernorÂ’s address in the Assembly marking the start of the session
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