India SEZs face Covid Coronavirus threat

COVID-19: Lockdown poses fresh challenges to SEZs

SEZs may be allowed to sell in domestic market till other industrial units become fully operational after the lockdown. Read more »
Green hydrogen, harit sagar

Lessons for India from global manufacturing hubs

To become a global economic powerhouse, India should engage foreign companies in a mutually beneficial partnership. Read more »
Digital Personal Data Protection Bill

A seven-point plan for MSMEs to survive Covid-19

The lockdown has constrained the operating environment of MSMEs in terms of cash flow, non-availability of workers, raw materials and transport infrastructure. Read more »
MSMEs face Covid-19 crisis

MSME sector: Eight ways India can back its small enterprises

Micro, small and medium enterprises are crucial to the revival of the economy ravaged by the Covid-19 outbreak and the nationwide lockdown. Read more »
coal mine in India

Mine auctions should happen only after all clearances are obtained

The Centre should set up a committee to go around the world, study policies in other mineral rich countries, and decide what is good for India, says BRV Sushil Kumar. Read more »
Ongoing coal shortage in India

FDI in coal unlikely; govt must ensure rock bottom prices

Use of coal may end in another 20 years, so India must ensure optimum use of this window, says VR Sharma of JSPL. Read more »
Dilip Kumar Gupta, managing director of Sagarmala Development Company Ltd

India on track to achieve 3 billion tonne port capacity

Government berths are being auctioned to private players who will mechanise them and improve efficiencies. Read more »
The government should look KIOCL chief MV Subba Rao at an industry event in New Delhi.

Uniform stamp duty, raw material prices key to steel industry growth

KIOCL is a pioneer in iron-oxide pelletisation in India. The profit-making PSU has built a global market over years. MV Subba Rao, chairman and managing director of the Bengaluru-based central PSU, talks... Read more »
Ramakrishna Chinnamsetty, head mining & raw material, ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel, at the conference on holistic mining policy in New Delhi.

Steel industry: Common infrastructure can be created by all players

ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel will think of expansion only after achieving 10 million tonne capacity. Read more »
SAIL executive director Laxmi Narayan Mallik

Logistics cost is 14-15% now, SAIL is trying to reduce it

India has a logistics problem, needs to build better infrastructure, says SAIL executive director LN Mallik. Read more »