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Amid surging COVID-19 cases in Karnataka capital city of Bengaluru, United States (US)-based aerospace major Boeing s India unit has come forward to set up a hospital in the city,
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Sharing the development, Chief Minister (CM) BS Yediyurappa said that the hospital will have a 200 bed capacity with oxygen support. The facility will come up at the KPCL site in Bengaluru s Yelahanka where there is an assured oxygen supply from the KPCL gas plant. CM Yediyurappa emphasised that this would lessen the load on the existing oxygen supplies in the State.
CM Yediyurappa shared the development in a letter addressed to the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. In the letter, he also emphasised that the sudden surge of COVID-19 cases in the State has led to an exponential demand for oxygen.
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States have deciding rights in the council, he says
The GST council had not met in the last six months in violation of its own rules that a meeting should be held once every quarter, Punjab Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal said in a letter to the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. He said the Centre seemed to have usurped all the powers of the States.
The meeting assumed importance with COVID-19 significantly impacting the economy and key decisions on waiver of GST on implements such as sanitizers and masks needed to be taken urgently, he said.
The States have the deciding rights in the GST council. But with no meeting in the last six months, Mr. Badal said, many provisions have been enacted in recent times through the route of subordinate legislation (Rules). Mr. Badal also pointed out that the delegation of the authority to the Committee of Officers or GST Implementation Committee was meant for mundane matters and not to bring substantive changes.
Help us pay salaries, Kassia urges Nirmala Sitharaman
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The Karnataka Small Scale Industries Association (Kassia) has urged the Union government to provide direct financial grants to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) by paying 50% of the salaries of these units at least for the next three months.
“This will not only help keep these units and their employees alive but will also stimulate the economy in multiple ways,” the industry body wrote to Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
In the absence of a quick and targeted one-time cash infusion into the sector, some 25 to 30 per cent of the SMEs in Karnataka employing lakhs of people may completely go out of business, it cautioned.
Odisha urges Centre to reimpose anti-dumping and countervailing duty to protect domestic steel manufacturers
Bhubaneswar, Apr 26 (UNI) Odisha on Monday requested the Union government to reimpose anti-dumping and countervailing duty on the import of stainless steel to protect the interest of domestic manufacturers.
It would also check the export from countries like China and
Indonesia, Odisha Industries Minister Dibya Shankar Mishra said in a letter to Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
He said the revocation of Anti-dumping and Countervailing duties will open floodgates for imports of stainless steel from China and Indonesia and would hit the domestic entrepreneurs.
The Minister said Odisha is the largest producer of stainless steel in the country adding that Rs 15,000 crore has been invested in the stainless steel producing sector and another Rs 8,000 crore has been invested in downstream industries under the MSME in the state.
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