Power ministry officials will work with those involved in debt restructuring of financially stressed idle plants to make them functional, the sources said.
The former bureaucrat said multilateral financial institutions are not equipped to do the same, and there is a need to transform them.
The legal metrology officers across the states have been directed to create awareness among the manufacturers, packers and importers of edible oils to pack the commodity without mentioning temperature and advise them to ensure that the quantity declared on the package is correct.
High inflation and widening trade deficit that posed macroeconomic stability challenges last year will lessen in severity, but growth will taper off too, Bhandari said in an interview Monday with Bloomberg Television’s Rishaad Salamat. “It’s hard for the two to co-exist.”
Shrinking the deficit which hit a record 9.2% of gross domestic product during the first year of the pandemic is necessary for Asia’s third-largest economy to improve its credit rating currently at the lowest investment grade.
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Prices of the main traded grades for coal used in power plants dropped to their lowest in months last week, and to the weakest in a year in the case of one of the major Australian varieties.
The energy-hungry nation said last May it plans to reduce power generation from least 81 coal-fired plants over the next four years, but the proposal did not involve shutting down any of its 179 coal power plants. India has not set a formal timeline for phasing down coal use.
Pakistan is grappling with a foreign exchange crisis and is looking at an urgent bailout package from IMF.
Petrol and diesel are priced at Rs 102.63 per litre and Rs 94.24 per litre respectively in Chennai, and at Rs 106.03 a litre and Rs 92.76 a litre in Kolkata, respectively.
Those forecasts were unchanged from a poll last month, with predictions for a slowdown in GDP growth to 6.0% in the 2023/24 fiscal year from an expected 6.7% in the current one also barely changed.
The government is expected to announce a record gross borrowing of 16 trillion rupees ($196.28 billion) for 2023-24 when it presents the federal budget on Feb. 1, according to a Reuters poll of economists.
Fuel stocks are only slightly higher than this time last year, when inadequate coal supplies coupled with higher than normal temperatures in March and April contributed to widespread blackouts.
The western state of Maharashtra, which accounts for more than a third of the country's sugar output, could produce 12.8 million tonnes of sugar in the 2022/23 marketing year that began on Oct. 1, down from an earlier forecast of 13.8 million tonnes, Maharashtra's sugar commissioner Shekhar Gaikwad said.
With inflation soaring to nearly 25 percent, and its interest rate at a 24-year-high of 17 percent, Pakistan appears to be crumbling.
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Saggar, who was a member of the Reserve Bank of India's rate-setting panel through much of the coronavirus pandemic, says the government must downsize itself even as it continues its focus on capital expenditure
“In the last quarter, the swaps market is pricing a cut in India, which I find very hard to believe,” said Jayesh Mehta, India country treasurer at the US bank said in an interview last week. “Our domestic demand is good, backed up by equally good local growth.”
The renewable energy ministry and the finance ministry are working on the draft policy. Neither ministry responded to queries from Reuters.