Cabinet Meeting On Reforms

• 

  Union Cabinet Takes Decisions To Reform Telecom Sector. Read About Them Here

  In a major reform push for the telecom sector in the country, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday cleared nine structural and five procedural reforms which are expected to reduce the financial burden off the cash strapped telecom firms and at the same time are also aimed at providing cash flow into the government's kitty, which would be used for install...

• 

  PM Modi's Top 5 Quotes On National Education Policy

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi today delivered the inaugural address at the "Conclave on Transformational Reforms in Higher Education" under the National Education Policy (NEP). The conclave was organised by the Human Resource Development Ministry and the University Grants Commission. The NEP, approved by the cabinet at a meeting presided by PM Modi,...

• 

  Moving To One Nation, One Market: Prakash Javadekar On Agricultural Reforms' Meet

  A tweak to the Essential Commodities Act, dubbed "historic" by the government, was approved by the Union Cabinet today.

• Modi Government May Decide on Coal Reforms: Your 10-Point Cheat-Sheet

  The Narendra Modi government may discuss much-needed reforms in the coal sector in a Cabinet meeting today, sources told NDTV. A decision on reforms in the coal sector may come after the government announced linking diesel prices to market rates and hiked prices of domestic gas over the weekend. The government needs to address the deficit in coal s...

• 'Relaxing FDI norms show reforms underway to boost growth'

  A high-level meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, today approved raising FDI limit in the telecom sector to 100 per cent. In insurance, it raised the sectoral FDI cap from 26 per cent to 49 per cent under the automatic route.

• Government confident of meeting FY13 fiscal deficit target of 5.3%: official

  The government is confident of meeting the fiscal deficit target of 5.3 per cent in the current fiscal and the steps to boost investments have already started showing green shoots of revival, a top Finance Ministry official said today.

• Government preps for FDI vote: what happened at cabinet meeting

  At a cabinet meeting last evening, sources say the focus was almost exclusively on the strategy to win the vote, which is non-binding, but has major implications for the government. If it loses the vote, the opposition may increase pressure to roll back the reform, a possibility the Prime Minister has ruled out in the past. Losing the vote will a...

• Five airports upgraded to international status

  The government on Thursday decided to upgrade five airports -- Tiruchirapalli, Coimbatore, Mangalore, Lucknow and Varanasi -- to the international level.

• Cabinet likely to approve pension, insurance bills: 10-point cheat sheet

  The government is all set for its next round of big-ticket reforms; the Cabinet will meet at 4.30 pm today and is expected to approve a proposal to hike the cap on Foreign Direct Investment in the insurance sector from 26 per cent to 49 per cent. It could also look at opening the pension sector to FDI, a controversial proposal that has seen much op...

• Will government hike sugar prices?

  Focused on reducing its subsidy bill, the government will discuss at a Cabinet meeting today whether the price of sugar sold at ration shops can be hiked by a whopping Rs 10 a kg. If approved, it will be the first hike in 10 years. But, huge political opposition and the timing, just before the festival season, will make this a difficult decision to...