Cabinet approves PAN 2.0 project, industry experts welcome move
Nov 27, 2024, at 10:41 pm
The Indian government's Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved the Income Tax Department’s Permanent Account Number (PAN) 2.0 Project which aims to streamline and modernise the process of issuing and managing PAN and TAN.
Union Cabinet approves increase in FRP for sugarcane to Rs 340/qtl
Feb 22, 2024, at 07:54 am
New Delhi: The Union cabinet has approved a raise in the fair and remunerative prices for sugarcane for the upcoming season, Union Minister Anurag Thakur said during a media briefing on Wednesday.
Cabinet extends free foodgrains for 81.35 crore beneficiaries for five years
Nov 29, 2023, at 11:23 pm
The Cabinet led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided that the Central government will provide free food grains to about 81.35 crore beneficiaries under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) for a period of five years with effect from Jan 1, 2024.
Jun 08, 2023, at 05:32 am
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a metro connectivity project from HUDA City Centre to Cyber City with spur to Dwarka Expressway, Gurugram covering a distance of 28.50 km having 27 stations on the route.
Cabinet approves continuation of exploration of coal and lignite scheme
Jun 08, 2023, at 04:55 am
New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday approved the continuation of the central sector scheme of “Exploration of Coal and Lignite scheme” with an estimated expenditure of Rs 2,980 crore from 2021-22 to 2025-26 co-terminus with the 15th Finance Commission cycle.
Narendra Modi govt approves allotment of 4G-5G Spectrum to BSNL
Jun 07, 2023, at 11:30 pm
New Delhi: In a significant move, as part of the revival strategy, the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday approved the third revival package for BSNL with the total outlay of Rs. 89,047 crore.
Cabinet clears 4 pct hike in DA for central govt employees
Mar 25, 2023, at 03:50 am
New Delhi/IBNS: The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday has given its approval to release an additional instalment of Dearness Allowance (DA) to central governments employees and Dearness Relief to Pensioners with effect from Jan 1 of this year.
Cabinet approves incentives for RuPay Debit Cards and low-value BHIM-UPI transactions (P2M)
Jan 12, 2023, at 01:35 am
New Delhi/IBNS: The Union Cabinet Wednesday approved the incentive scheme for the promotion of RuPay Debit Cards and low-value BHIM-UPI transactions (person-to-merchant) for a period of one year from April 2022.
Cabinet approves Minimum Support Prices for all Rabi Crops for Marketing Season 2023-24
Oct 18, 2022, at 11:44 pm
New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the increase in the Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for all mandated Rabi Crops for Marketing Season 2023-24.
Cabinet approves Rupees 22,000 crore as one time grant of PSU OMCs for losses in Domestic LPG
Oct 12, 2022, at 10:15 pm
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday has approved the proposal of Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas to give a one time grant amounting to Rs.22,000 crore to three Public Sector Undertaking Oil Marketing Companies (PSU OMCs).
Cabinet approves production linked incentive scheme
Sep 21, 2022, at 11:49 pm
The Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has approved the Ministry of New & Renewable Energy’s proposal for implementation of the Production Linked Incentive Scheme (Tranche II) on ‘National programme on High Efficiency Solar PV Modules’, with an outlay of Rs.19,500 crore for achieving manufacturing capacity of Giga Watt (GW) scale in High Efficiency Solar PV Modules.
Sep 15, 2021, at 11:51 pm
New Delhi: Taking steps forward towards the vision of an ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’, Government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has approved the PLI Scheme for Automobile Industry and Drone Industry with a budgetary outlay of ₹ 26,058 crore.
Narendra Modi Cabinet approves major reforms in Telecom Sector
Sep 15, 2021, at 11:00 pm
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday approved a number of structural and process reforms in the Telecom sector.
Indian Cabinet clears relief package for telcos, lifeline for crisis-hit Vodafone Idea
Sep 15, 2021, at 09:41 pm
New Delhi/UNI: Offering a lifeline to crisis-ridden Vodafone Idea and also respite to other private telecom operators, the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday cleared the much-awaited relief package for the sector which includes moratorium on payment of spectrum dues.
Cabinet approves increase in Dearness Allowance, Dearness Relief for central govt employees
Jul 14, 2021, at 10:59 pm
New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday approved an increase in the Dearness Allowance to Central Government employees and Dearness Relief to pensioners with effect from 01.07.2021 to 28% representing an increase of 11% over the existing rate of 17% of the Basic Pay/Pension.
Cabinet nod to Rs 6.28 lakh cr stimulus package announced by FM Nirmala Sitharaman
Jun 30, 2021, at 11:46 pm
New Delhi/UNI: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a Rs 6,28,993 crore stimulus package announced by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to bail out the Covid-hit economy. This was informed by Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar while briefing mediapersons about the Cabinet decisions.
Indian Cabinet approves auction of spectrum
Dec 16, 2020, at 10:19 pm
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday approved a proposal of the Department of Telecommunications to conduct spectrum auction through which spectrum will be assigned to the successful bidders for providing commercial mobile services.
Cabinet approves scheme of amalgamation of Lakshmi Vilas Bank with DBS Bank India Limited
Nov 25, 2020, at 09:19 pm
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given its approval to the Scheme of Amalgamation of Lakshmi Vilas Bank Limited (LVB) with DBS Bank India Limited (DBIL).
Cabinet approves productivity linked bonus and non-productivity linked bonus for 2019-2020
Oct 21, 2020, at 09:12 pm
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has given its approval to pay Productivity Linked Bonus (PLB)for the year 2019-2020 to 16.97 lakh non-gazetted employees of commercial establishments like Railways, Posts, Defence, EPFO,ESIC,etc.will be benefitted and the financial implication would be Rs.2,791 crore.
Cabinet approves proposal for leasing out three airports of AAI through PPP
Aug 19, 2020, at 11:31 pm
New Delhi: The Union Cabinetchaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has approvedthe proposal for leasing out three airports namely Jaipur, Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram airports of Airports Authority of India (AAI) through Public Private Partnership (PPP).
Jul 08, 2020, at 05:50 pm
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet chaired by PM Narendra Modi on Wednesday has given its approval for extending the contribution both 12% employees' share and 12% employers' share under Employees Provident Fund, totaling 24% for another 3 months from June to August, 2020, as part of the package announced by the Government under Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana (PMGKY)/ Aatmanirbhar Bharat in the light of COVID-19, a Pandemic.
Cabinet approves scheme to help small businesses brace disruption by Covid-19
Jun 24, 2020, at 04:39 pm
New Delhi/UNI: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a scheme for interest subvention of 2 per cent for a period of 12 months to all Shishu loan accounts under Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY) to eligible borrowers which will incentivise people who will make regular repayments of loans.
Cabinet approves 4 percent hike in DA for central government employees
Mar 13, 2020, at 05:34 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi on Friday approved to release an additional instalment of Dearness Allowance (DA) to Central Government employees and Dearness Relief (DR) to pensioners.
Bonanza for Central govt employees: Cabinet approves dearness allowance by 4%
Mar 13, 2020, at 04:36 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Giving some good news to central government employees, the Cabinet on Friday approved 4 percent dearness allowance (DA) for them.
Cabinet recommends amalgamation of 10 PSBs into 4 from Apr 1
Mar 04, 2020, at 04:58 pm
New Delhi/UNI: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the mega consolidation of 10 PSBs into four.
Cabinet approves Companies (Second Amendment) Bill, 2019
Mar 04, 2020, at 04:24 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the Companies (Second Amendment) Bill, 2019 to amend the Companies Act, 2013.
Cabinet approves proposal for capital infusion for OICL, NICL and UIICL
Feb 12, 2020, at 05:40 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has given its in principle approval for capital infusion for three Public Sector General Insurance Companies, namely, Oriental Insurance Company Limited (OICL), National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) and United India Insurance Company Limited (UIICL).
Cabinet approves MoU between India and Brazil for cooperation in the oil and natural gas sector
Jan 22, 2020, at 04:38 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has given its approval for the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Republic of India and Federative Republic of Brazil on cooperation in the field of oil and natural gas.
BSNL, MTNL to be merged, Cabinet approves revival plan
Oct 23, 2019, at 05:15 pm
Mumbai: The Indian Cabinet has approved the revival plan for two ailing telecom companies Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL).
Union Cabinet OKs hike in MSP for all Kharif crops of 2019-20 season
Jul 03, 2019, at 04:50 pm
New Delhi, Jul 3(UNI) In a major boost to the farmers' income, the Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday approved the increase in Minimum Support Prices (MSPs) for all Kharif crops for 2019-20 season.