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Sunday, 3 May 2020

18:23

Manufacturers and Traders May please use Western Railway Time tabled Parcel Specials Extended

Manufacturers and Traders May please use Western Railway Time tabled Parcel Specials Extended 

Traders/Suppliers/Courier Agencies/Bulk Cargo Dealers/Manufacturers may please use WR's seven time tabled Parcel Specials for transportation of their goods all over the country. These trains are extended further. 
Source:Western Railway
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Sunday, 21 June 2015

10:09

Tanzania seek India funding for Dar Es Salaam Urban Metro Rail project

Tanzania seek India funding for Dar Es Salaam Urban Metro Rail project

Dar Es Salaam: Tanzania is seeking funding from India to build a metro rail network in its commercial capital, Dar es Salaam, the president’s office said in a statement on Saturday.

Dar es Salaam, with a population of over 4 million, is one of the fastest-growing cities in sub-Saharan Africa, but like many other African cities it faces a crippling traffic congestion problem.

President Jakaya Kikwete said in the statement that India’s Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Ltd (IL&FS) had expressed interest to invest in the metro rail. He did not say how much the metro project would cost.

The Tanzanian president met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Friday and made an official request for funding for the project.

Tanzania said last month it plans to spend around $2 billion to build new roads and a bus rapid transit system to unclog traffic in Dar es Salaam.

The plan would include the construction of fly-overs and bridges, using budgetary allocations from the government’s 2015/16 fiscal year starting in July.

The east African region, which has seen significant discoveries of energy in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, has been racing to build new transport links to make up for decades of neglect and under-investment.

Tanzania and India plan to boost annual bilateral trade, which currently stands at around $4 billion, officials said.

India’s Rites Limited won a 25-year concession in 2007 to operate Tanzania’s state-run railway firm but the deal collapsed five years later due to under-investment and inefficiency problems.
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Thursday, 18 June 2015

19:53

Railway Minister strongly advocates Automatic Sharing of Tax Information to all Nations at G20

Railway Minister strongly advocates Automatic Sharing of Tax Information to all Nations at G20

New Delhi: India has strongly argued for widening the agenda for sharing of information on tax issues and has called for holding a round table on infrastructure to deepen investment in this critical sector. Railway minister Suresh Prabhu, India’s sherpa for the G20 meeting, raised several issues to highlight the concerns of emerging economies.

In an interview on the sidelines of the G20 Sherpas meeting in the Turkish resort town of Bodrum, Prabhu details the agenda ahead for the G20 to lift inclusive growth globally. Excepts:

What were the key issues that you raised?

India is chairing the emerging economies group. Before the G20, we meet informally as a group so that we can more or less have a similar position.We expressed our concerns and one of the issues that we have talked about is trade. We are seeing a worrying phenomenon globally, that the share of global trade is declining.

We need to find out the reasons, structural or otherwise, which are contributing to it. It has been agreed that we will look into it. For India, it is a great opportunity because we are growing at 7.5% without global trade growing.

What has been the movement on anti-corruption and tax issues?

This is something which has been our very strong stand.The prime minister took it up in Australia. I had also taken it up. We are repeating that. There are two things.One is BEPS (Base Erosion and Price Shifting). It is a tax evasion if not a black money issue. Two, automatic sharing of information, which has significantly changed the way global black money is generated.Today , unless you have a treaty, you don’t get information. Even if you have a treaty, they say you must show criminality then only you can get information. This automatic sharing of information which G20 has agreed…I requested that this be extended to all countries of the world so that we can have something like a UN mandate. Every country will be sharing, so, automatically , the concept of tax haven will disappear. We should try to make it a universal convention like we have so many other conventions.

What was the discussion on infrastructure?

I had said in December that what we should do is to organize a round table. See, there is a very unique phenomenon.On one hand, there is so much of liquidity. Global economy is not expanding but there is so much of liquidity globally . At the same time, one of the rea sons why global economy is not expanding is that demand is not there and that too in developed countries. We said why not create demand by investing in infrastructure. Some countries said we should try to find bankable projects but we said what is bankability . If you take 30 years time frame, bankability will always be there. We have said there could be a number of roundtables to bring all the stakeholders in infrastructure -investors, countries like India which has projects where matchmaking would be possible.

Was there any discussion on skills?

Thanks to India, G20 has taken an initiative called G20 skills.So if you can link the need, for example in Japan, there is a need for nurses as people are getting old. If you can link need with availability, then we can train our nurses here for Japan but Japan will have to change rules of migration. We are very keen on employment.India has been saying that for quality youth, jobs should be created. But India has reservations which I strongly put forward that there should not be any monitoring because the G20 is saying that we will monitor it. There is no proper database about it, no proper method, so unless you develop those methodologies transparently , there is no point.
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