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Parliamentary panel to deliberate on climate adaptation investment The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance on Monday will deliberate on the subject "India's investment requirements for sustainable growth, particularly for climate adaptation and mitigation". The panel, headed by BJP MP Jayant Sinha, has summoned officials from Commerce Ministry's Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), to deliberate on the matter. The panel will also consider and adopt a report on the 'Anti-Competitive Practices by ...
Parliamentary panel to deliberate on climate adaptation investment
Parliamentary panel to deliberate on climate adaptation investment
Source: IANS
19/12/2022 9:43:38 AM
Parliamentary panel report recommends 6-year term for RBI Governor In what could be a major step towards reforming the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), a report prepared by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance is learnt to have suggested a six-year term for the central bank governor and increasing the number of deputy governors from four to eight. According to highly placed sources, the Parliamentary panel which is headed by BJP MP Jayant Sinha has prepared a comprehensive report on RBI, suggesting sweeping reforms in it. The report is likely to...
Parliamentary panel report recommends 6-year term for RBI Governor
Parliamentary panel report recommends 6-year term for RBI Governor
Source: IANS
6/12/2022 9:47:52 AM
Standing Committee on Finance to take view on Competition Amendment Bill 2022 The Standing Committee of Finance headed by Jayant Sinha will meet on December 8 to consider and adopt the draft report on Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022. On the same day, the Panel has summoned Law Secretary Niten Chandra to brief them on certain provisions of the Bill. The Bill seeks to amend the Competition Act, 2002, to regulate mergers and acquisitions based on the value of transactions. Deals with transaction value of more than Rs 2,000 crore will require CCI's approval. ...
Standing Committee on Finance to take view on Competition Amendment Bill 2022
Standing Committee on Finance to take view on Competition Amendment Bill 2022
Source: IANS
5/12/2022 9:47:03 AM
Economy doing well, can reach $5 trillion target by 2025-26: Officials India would be able to achieve the target of becoming a $5 trillion dollar economy by 2025-2026 despite the prevailing global headwinds, top officials told a Parliamentary panel on finance on Monday. The officials further said that even as the geopolitical situation is highly volatile due to the Russia-Ukraine war, Indian economy is doing well and at the current growth rate of 6.4 per cent, it would be able to become a $5 trillion dollar economy by 2025-26, sources privy to developments sa...
Economy doing well, can reach $5 trillion target by 2025-26: Officials
Economy doing well, can reach $5 trillion target by 2025-26: Officials
Source: IANS
22/11/2022 10:58:08 AM
Parliamentary panel on finance to submit report on competitive laws in Digital Market The Standing Committee on Finance headed by BJP MP and former Union minister Jayant Sinha will submit its report to the Parliament in September on how competition laws that regulate competitive conduct should evolve to deal with competitive behavioural issues in digital markets. Sinha, while speaking to media persons on Tuesday after the committee's nearly four-hour long meeting with leading digital players like Google and Netflix among others, said that the crux of the discussion was ...
Parliamentary panel on finance to submit report on competitive laws in Digital Market
Parliamentary panel on finance to submit report on competitive laws in Digital Market
Source: IANS
24/08/2022 9:37:08 AM
Government working to bring changes in GST Act, public platforms to support business: Jayant Sinha Jayant Sinha, Chairperson, Parliament Standing Committee on Finance, has said that the government is working to bring changes in the GST Act and other public platforms so that companies can utilise data to grow big in size and scale.  He mentioned ‘Public platforms such as UPI and Aadhaar are very important platforms. Even then, for us to leapfrog, we have to do more in terms of public platforms.’ When the Factoring Bill came to the Standing Committee on Finance, the gover...
Government working to bring changes in GST Act, public platforms to support business: Jayant Sinha
Government working to bring changes in GST Act, public platforms to support business: Jayant Sinha
Source: Accord Fintech
24/12/2021 11:40:45 AM