Today's News(15th Oct)

• Myanmar Pesident's India Visit :

     settling Border Dispute, road link, Economic and Trade Ties Read More

• Nandan Nilekani to head SPV on implementing GST.
• National Manufacturing Policy(NMP) aims at augmenting the share of manufacturing in GDP to 25% from the current 15-16 % within a decade and create 100 million jobs. The policy had earlier received in principle approval from Singh but was delayed due to opposition from labour and environment ministries. The key focus of the policy is to improve the business environment and enable easy technology acquisition and development, provide access to capital for small and medium enterprises and enhance the role of the private sector in skill development. The focus would be on minimizing the government role and creating an environment of self-regulation . It also talks about flexibility in labour laws.