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Synopsis The Union Budget 2021-22 has earmarked an allocation of Rs 15,700 crore for the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises — more than double of the last year. iStock The biggest takeaway of this category has been the allocation earmarked to GECL facility to eligible MSME borrowers. For the Covid hit MSMEs, the key highlight of the Union budget 2021 remained a higher outlay to the sector. To accelerate the revival of the Covid- hit sector, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has...

Updated:   For over a decade Dr.Mohammed Bawaji has been not only an entrepreneur but a pioneer in developing transformational HR processes and authored ten books for corporate and academic use. While he is constantly intrigued by HR and its processes, he has also developed nine short online courses out of which two have gone on to win recognitions and awards. A strategic human resource specialist, career coach and educationalist, Dr.Bawaji also serves as an HR and Talent Acquisition advis...

Highlights The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has published its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) 2021 Issuance of the Multi-Sector General Permit for Stormwater Discharges Associated with Industrial Activity (MSGP). Several items from the proposed 2020 MSGP were not adopted in the final version, including a coal-tar sealcoat prohibition, expansion beyond the 2015 MSGP provisions for permitted discharges to CERCLA/Superfund sites, automatic delays to new discha...

Shriram Automall India Limited (SAMIL), part of Shriram Group and MXC Solutions, has received the Standardisation Testing & Quality Certification (STQC) E-Procurement System (ePS) certificate from the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology. The certificate will enable the company to foray into the Rs 50,000 crore public sector forward auction industry. After going through extensive tests for nearly three years, SAMIL has become the first private company in India to have its auction ...

Print NELLYSFORD, Va. – Richard Memory has made woodworking history -- again. The trail-blazing employee of Jefferson Millwork & Design recently became the first professional woodworker awarded the Gold credential by the Woodwork Career Alliance of North America (WCA). In fall 2019, Memory was the first woodworking pro to earn the WCA’s Red credential.  Greg Heuer, secretary of the WCA, presented Memory his Gold credential certificate, pin and patch during a ceremony held on Jefferson M...

Yellowstone Public Radio A comment box from the U.S. State Department for thoughts on an recently updated environmental draft for the Keystone XL pipeline on October 29, 2019. A vital water crossing certification for the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline is in limbo after environmental groups challenged Montana’s recent issuance of a water quality certification. The state’s decision and an appeal comes during a transition in state and federal administrations. Environmental groups filed a notic...

/ A map shows the planned route of the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline across eastern Montana. Environmental groups are calling for the state of Montana to reconsider a water quality certification that allows the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline to cross more than 200 protected water bodies in the eastern part of the state. Billings based Northern Plains Resource Council and the Sierra Club filed a notice of appeal with the state Board of Environmental Review Monday. The groups challenge the Monta...

Fox21Online December 28, 2020 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Opponents of a pipeline project that crosses three states have asked a federal court to halt construction in Minnesota on allegations that U.S. Army Corps of Engineers failed to address several environmental issues when it approved a water quality permit. Two Minnesota Ojibwe bands and two environmental groups filed a lawsuit Thursday that asks for a preliminary injunction to stop work on the Enbridge Energy Line 3 pipeline that began early thi...

Staff writer Shelley Hanson QUESTIONS — An environmental group is challenging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in court regarding the permitting process of the fracking waste recycling facility in Martins Ferry. MARTINS FERRY — A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit that would allow a fracking waste loading facility to be constructed on the Ohio River in Martins Ferry is being challenged by an environmental group. The Corps permit was requested March 30 by 4K Industrial “to construct a ...

PA DEP Issues Fed. 401 Water Crossing Permit to NFG’s FM100 Pipe In March 2019 MDN told you about National Fuel Gas Company’s (NFG) FM100 Project in northwestern Pennsylvania that will beef up and extend an existing pipeline network to flow an extra 330 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) of Marcellus gas to Williams’ mighty Transco Pipeline (see NFG FM100 Pipe Project in NW PA to Feed Marcellus Gas to Transco). The Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) recently issued a fe...