Chairman, Environment Pollution (Prevention & Control) Authority for Delhi-NCR & Member, Supreme Court Monitoring Committee, Dr.Bhure Lal on Friday asked India Inc. to invigorate and intensify its R&D efforts for generating sufficient solar energy for India’s mass consumption and enab…
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Formalities to convert IREDA into Green Bank near completion, says its CMD
A conference on “Achieving 100 GW of Solar Dream by 2022” under aegis of PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry on May 4th unanimously demanded government’s intervention to halt the unregulated large influx of solar and wind power panels and equipment from China as most of them are manufactured wit…
India and Bahamas trade to touch US$3 billion by 2020
Amid slowdown in the world economy, India and Bahamas trade is projected to touch at US$3 billion by 2020, said Dr. Mahesh Gupta, President, PHD Chamber. India has potential to export commodities including ships, boats, mineral fuels, articles, among others of iron and steel to Bahamas as these c…
PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry & Public Health Foundation of India forge strategic partnership for Skill Building in Healthcare
With an aim to augment the Government of India’s ‘Skill India’ flagship project and to create a robust and vibrant eco-system for quality skill development in the healthcare sector, PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI) and Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) signed a 5 year memorand…
Project digital India will attain its desired objectives | DEIT, AS, Dr. Ajay kumar
Additional Secretary, Department of Electronics & Information Technology, Dr. Ajay Kumar on Thursday emphasized that digital India project of the Prime Minister would integrate India in a multifaceted manner so that the accruals of information technology percolate down to each stakeholders in…
Mixed reactions to RBI’s repo rate cut by 25 basis points to 6.5%
The Reserve Bank of India on April 5 cut the repo rate by a further 25 bps and also took measures to ease the liquidity constraints in the banking system. It seems to be giving hopes for the industry and consumers that interest rates in the economy will fall faster than earlier. Actions taken by …
PHD Chamber & Avian Media mull over skill enhancement for MSMEs
The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector, considered a key player in the Make in India campaign, needs more funds and ‘hand-holding’ for greater Information and Communication Technology (ICT) push and skill enhancement, say a joint study by PHD Chamber and Avian Media. According to t…
Budget 2016 | Quotable Quotes
“Finance Minister spent a considerable amount of time in trying to address the rural distress and the difficulties being faced by the farmers. The emphasis on the budget on various schemes and ideas, which including for instance the linking of the MNREGA scheme to rural challenges, is very signif…
Railway Budget 2016 pragmatic; new sources of revenues, new norms and new structures appreciable: PHD Chamber
President PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dr. Mahesh Gupta, has described the Railway Budget 2016-17 a pragmatic one which has well-defined strategies and stresses on modernization, employment generation, freight movement, socio-economic welfare and private participation. “The employment fo…
Gems and jewellery SMEs to be upgraded | Rajasthan Govt
Rajasthan Government will tweak policies to facilitate the uplift and upgrade diamond, gems and jewellery industry, which are mostly in the SME sector and have huge potential for job creation. Indicating this, Rajasthan MSME principal secretary Rajeeva Swarup said the diamond, gems and jewellery …