Cabinet Decisions - General, India
Setting up of a new Ammonia-Urea Complex at Namrup in Assam on Public Private Partnership (PPP) basis Financial restructuring of Brahmaputra Valley Fertilizer Corporation Limited
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today gave its approval for setting up of a new Ammonia-Urea Complex of 8.64 Lakh Metric Tonnes annual capacity with an estimated investment of Rs. 4500 crore at Namrup in Assam on Public Private Partnership (PPP) route by a... Full Document
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Approval for revival of the Sindri unit of the Fertilizer Corporation India
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today gave its approval for the revival of closed urea unit of Fertilizer Corporation India Limited (FCIL) at Sindri (Jharkhand) with an investment of Rs 6000 crore.
This unit was lying defunct and was not in operation since 2002. Therefore,... Full Document
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Audio-Visual Co-Production Agreement between India and Republic of Korea
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today gave its approval for entering into an Audio-Visual Co-Production Agreement between India and the Republic of Korea (RoK) and to complete internal ratification procedure, to enable the agreement to come into force.
The Agreement will be signed during the... Full Document
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Memorandum of Understanding between India and Mongolia on cooperation in the field of Traditional Systems of Medicine and Homoeopathy
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today gave its approval for signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for cooperation in the field of Traditional Systems of Medicine and Homoeopathy between India and Mongolia.
The signing of the proposed MoU, will enhance bilateral cooperation between the... Full Document
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Memorandum of Understanding between India and Korea on cooperation in the fields of maritime transport and logistics
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today gave its approval for signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for cooperation with the Republic of Korea in the fields of maritime transport and logistics.
The MoU envisages cooperation in the fields of maritime transport and logistics between... Full Document
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Memorandum of Understanding between India and Korea on cooperation in the field of electric power development and new energy industries
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today gave its approval for signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and the Republic of Korea on cooperation in the field of electric power development and new energy industries.
This MoU will provide an enabling framework for... Full Document
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Approval for signing of MoU between India and Mongolia for enhancing cooperation in Border Guarding, Policing and Surveillance
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today gave its approval for signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and Mongolia for cooperation in Border Guarding, Policing and Surveillance.
The MoU will strengthen bilateral cooperation in the field of Border Management as both the countries'... Full Document
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Memorandum of Understanding between India and China on cooperation in the fields of mining and mineral sector
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today gave its approval for signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and the People’s Republic of China on cooperation in the field of mining and mineral sector.
The MOU will provide an institutional mechanism between India and... Full Document
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Revival of the Barauni and Gorakhpur Fertilizer Units
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today gave its approval for the revival of the closed unit of the Barauni of the Hindustan Fertilizer Corporation Ltd. (HFCL) and Gorakhpur Fertilizer Unit of Fertilizers Corporation India Limited.
These units were lying defunct and were not in operation... Full Document
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Amendment of the Homoeopathy Central Council Act, 1973
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today gave its approval for the amendment of the Homoeopathy Central Council Act, 1973.
This amendment in the Act, will make provisions relating to granting permission by Central Government to all homoeopathic medical colleges for continuing course/courses, so as to... Full Document
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Signing and ratifying the Inter-Governmental Agreement on Dry Ports of International Importance
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today gave its approval for signing and ratifying of the Inter-Governmental Agreement on Dry Ports of International Importance for signature at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. This is a follow up of the Resolution of the United... Full Document
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Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation in Traditional Systems of Medicine and Homoeopathy between India and Mauritius
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today gave its approval for the Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation in Traditional Systems of Medicine and Homoeopathy between India and Mauritius.
The MoU will enhance bilateral cooperation between the two countries in the areas of traditional medicine including medicinal... Full Document
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Pooling of Gas in Fertilizer (Urea) Sector
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has approved a major policy intervention, to supply gas at uniform delivered price to all fertilizer plants on the gas grid for production of urea through a pooling mechanism.
It is expected that the cost of production... Full Document
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Allocation of Rs. 4948 crore for Gross Budgetary Support to the Indian Strategic Storage Programme for Crude Oil
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has approved the allocation of Rs. 4948 crore for Gross Budgetary Support (GBS) to the scheme for the Indian Strategic Storage Programme for Storage of Crude Oil by Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves Limited (ISPRL). The following... Full Document
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Amendments to guidelines for financial support to Public Private Partnerships in infrastructure
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has approved the change in the definition of a ‘Private Sector Company’ in the guidelines for financial support to Public Private Partnerships in Infrastructure under the Viability Gap Funding Scheme (VGF Scheme). This has been done... Full Document
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Enactment of a Central legislation for declaring identified inland waterways as National Waterways
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today gave its approval for enactment of Central legislation for declaring 101 additional Inland Waterways as National Waterways (NW) for navigation.
This will create a logistic supply chain with intermodal (Rail, Road and Waterways) connectivity. It would positively contribute to the... Full Document
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Formation of a Special Purpose Vehicle to provide efficient rail evacuation systems to Major Ports and thereby enhance their handling capacity and efficiency
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today gave its approval for formation of a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) to provide efficient rail evacuation systems to Major Ports and thereby enhance their handling capacity and efficiency.
The SPV would undertake the following Projects:-
1. Last mile connectivity to... Full Document
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Sagarmala: Concept and implementation towards Blue Revolution
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today gave its ‘in-principle’ approval for the concept and institutional framework of Sagarmala Project.
The prime objective of the Sagarmala project is to promote port-led direct and indirect development and to provide infrastructure to transport goods to and from ports... Full Document
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Approach and Key Components of e-Kranti : National e-Governance Plan 2.0
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today gave its approval for the Approach and Key Components of e-Kranti : National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) 2.0. This is a follow up to the key decisions taken in the first meeting of the Apex Committee on the Digital... Full Document
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Central assistance to States/Union Territories (UTs) under National Food Security Act for meeting expenditure on intra-State movement & handling of foodgrains and Fair Price Shop (FPS) dealers’ margin
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has approved the norms of the expenditure and pattern of central sharing on Central assistance to States/Union Territories (UTs) under the National Food Security Act, 2013 (NFSA). This assistance is used for meeting expenditure on intra-state... Full Document
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