Rai said the government expects investments to further increase in the next five years in various important sectors like manufacturing, services, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, agro-based industry, and tourism, including film and medical.
The Minister of State for Electronics and IT during interactions with startups asked them to engage with the Indian banking system, which has been very robust and assured them of resolving teething issues they may face.
The minister, in an interview with PTI, said the government is now going to broaden and widen the electronics manufacturing ecosystem with a new production-linked incentive scheme for hearable-wearable, IT hardware and component makers.
The reaction from the minister comes after the revelation of "Twitter Files", which shows that the microblogging site allegedly manipulated tweets and other information on the platform.
The measures taken by the Centre include promoting the usage of natural gas as fuel and feedstock across the country, and promoting renewable and alternate fuels like ethanol, second-generation ethanol, compressed biogas and biodiesel.
Delayed and prolonged rains are the main reason for damage to onion crops, Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Dadarao said during Question Hour.
"Nearly USD 14 billion worth of defence offset obligations will be discharged by the foreign OEMs by 2028," he said while delivering the inaugural address at seminar - Leveraging defence expenditure as a tool for nation building - organised by College of Defence Management here.
New aviation policy will be out soon says Mahesh Sharma, MoS, Civil Aviation in an interview to CNBC-TV18‘s Rituparna Bhuyan
Watch accompanying videos of Piyush Goyal, MoS for Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy, Rana Kapoor, MD & CEO of Yes Bank and Hemant Contractor, Chairman of PFRDA share their views and thoughts at Remaking India, the Mint Special conclave for post budget analysis presented by Yes Bank.
Singh on Monday night said he was asked by the government to represent it at the Pakistan National Day reception. "The Government of India has to sent an MoS. They sent me and I went there and came back," he said replying to a question about his presence at the reception.
The ministry officials today met with the chiefs of several public sector banks to take stock of the recent performance of banks, and find ways to strengthen the system.