Subsidy
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Government plans to provide credit guarantee, interest subsidy on loans for electronic manufacturers
India | Jan 14, 2019, 07:47 PM ISTThe government is considering credit guarantee for term loans of up to Rs 100 crore as well as interest subsidy on loans up to Rs 1,000 crore for electronic manufacturing companies under the new policy in works.
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Pollution & subsidy on diesel: Supreme Court asks Centre to file affidavit
India | Mar 05, 2018, 09:22 PM ISTA bench comprising Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan asked the government to file its affidavit within four weeks in the matter and said it would look into these issues.
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Haj subsidy withdrawn, Govt says will use funds for education of girls, women of minorities
India | Jan 16, 2018, 11:24 PM IST"Subsidy on Haj over from this year," News agency PTI quoted Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi as saying.
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CM Yogi Adityanath promises Rs 1 lakh subsidy for Kailash Mansarovar Yatra
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Home loan EMIs get Rs 2,000 cheaper under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana. Read how
Mar 23, 2017, 12:33 PM ISTLoans approved or under consideration as on January 1 will be eligible for the interest rate subisdy on home loans
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Stopping LPG subsidy to high-income group to save Rs 500 crore
Dec 29, 2015, 10:27 PM ISTMumbai: The move to stop LPG subsidies to high-income consumers with a taxable income of above Rs 10 lakh a year may result in a saving of up to Rs 500 crore for the government,
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LPG subsidy for people above Rs 10-Lakh income might be stopped: Venkaiah Naidu
National | Nov 14, 2015, 04:48 PM ISTHyderabad: The NDA government is mulling to lift the subsidy on LPG cylinder for consumers whose annual income is above Rs 10 lakh, Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said here today.“Dharmendra Pradhan (Minister for Petroleum
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Time has come for stopping LPG subsidy to well-off: Dharmendra Pradhan
National | Nov 06, 2015, 09:05 PM ISTNew Delhi: Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan today hinted of stopping supply of subsidised cooking gas (LPG) to the well-off as only 42.5 lakh out of nearly 15 crore cooking gas consumers have so far voluntarily
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Over 4 per cent fall in passenger bookings worries railways
India | Sep 27, 2015, 11:19 AM ISTNew Delhi: An over 4 per cent fall in passenger bookings between April and August this year has left the Indian Railway worried, raising concerns about a possible rise in passenger subsidy.Altogether 3,427.84 million passengers
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Poor families handed Rs 49.50 lakh as housing subsidy
India | Sep 09, 2015, 08:43 AM ISTPuducherry: Welfare and Tourism Minister P Rajavelu yesterday handed Rs 1.5 lakh to each of 33 poor families under housing subsidy scheme to enable them replace huts with concrete structures.A release from the office of
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Over 1.6 lakh Indians sign online petition against parliament canteen subsidy
National | Aug 14, 2015, 09:24 PM ISTNew Delhi: An online petition urging Prime Minister Narendra Modi to end the parliament canteen subsidy has garnered over 1.61 lakh supporters on Change.org.The petition, which was started around two months ago by a Delhi
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Government sets up council for export promotion
Jul 19, 2015, 11:56 PM ISTNew Delhi: In view of continuous decline in exports over a half-year period, the Indian government has set up a promotion council to be chaired by the union commerce minister and comprising state trade and commerce
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Dosas for Rs 6, mutton curry for Rs 20: MPs enjoy subsidized dishes with taxpayers' money
India | Jun 24, 2015, 11:50 AM ISTNew Delhi: Dosas for Rs 6, mutton curry for Rs 20; this is the menu of Parliament canteen where MPs earning over Rs 1.4 lakh get subsidized food at 60-90%.Parliament canteens serving to Members of
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Cash for food: Modi govt's ambitious project fails to take off
India | May 19, 2015, 02:06 PM ISTNew Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi government's experiment to hand out money instead of subsidised food has been buried quietly as the scheme seemed to be too impractical.Modi government started the pilot scheme for direct
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Revealed! Around 13 million fake cooking gas consumers across India
India | Mar 31, 2015, 10:11 PM ISTThe Direct Benefits Transfer scheme under which subsidies are credited into the account of the beneficiary has identified a whopping 12.73 million duplicate connections that included fake consumers or illegally held multiple accounts across the
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NDMC areas to get water, power subsidy from today
India | Mar 21, 2015, 09:37 PM ISTNew Delhi: The areas under the jurisdiction of New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) will be able to get water and electricity at subsidised rates from Saturday.The resolution for the same was passed by Delhi Chief
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AAP plans power subsidy to give relief to consumer
National | Feb 18, 2015, 11:06 PM ISTNew Delhi: The AAP government today said that it will soon provide relief to power consumers by extending a subsidy.Power minister Satyendra Jain today held a meeting with officials of Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC)
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LPG subsidy scheme registration to end in March, many are yet to apply
India | Feb 16, 2015, 10:04 PM ISTNew Delhi: To avail the subsidy on LPG cylinders, the registration for the direct benefit transfer of LPG (DBTL) subsidy scheme is due to end by March-end. There are still lakhs of consumers in every
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Rajasthan withdraws subsidy on domestic cylinders
India | Feb 10, 2015, 05:51 PM ISTJaipur: Rajasthan government has withdrawn the subsidy of Rs 25 on domestic cylinders which was extended by former Congress government, inviting a sharp reaction from the opposition party.“The order to withdraw the subsidy of Rs
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More steps to rationalise subsidies on anvil: Jaitley
Dec 07, 2014, 09:27 AM ISTNew Delhi: Assuring India Inc of NDA's commitment to carry forward economic reforms, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said the government will come out with more steps to rationalise subsidies."I had a series of meeting