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Growth Rate Achieved by Agriculture, Manufacturing & Service Sector During 2013-14

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..... Growth Rate Achieved by Agriculture, Manufacturing & Service Sector During 2013-14 - News and Press Release Dated:- 25-7-2014 - News - As per the estimates released by the Central Statistics Office on 30th May, 2014, the quarter-wise growth rate achieved by agriculture, manufacturing and service sectors during each quarter of 2013-14 is given in the following table. Quarter- .....

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..... wise Growth at Constant (2004-05 Prices (per cent) Sector 2013-14 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Agriculture, forestry and fishing 4.0 5.0 3.7 6.3 Manufacturing - .....

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..... 1.2 1.3 -1.5 -1.4 Services 7.2 6.3 7.2 6.4 The growth of manufacturing and services sector was (-) 0.7 per cent and 6.8 per cent respectively in 2013-14. In addition to the slowdown in fixed investment, several domestic and external factors such as higher .....

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..... rate of interest, infrastructure bottlenecks, inflationary pressures leading to rising input costs and slowdown in domestic and external demand for some sectors have together contributed to the contraction in manufacturing. The growth in services sector was driven mainly the double digit growth in the financing, insurance, real estate and business services segment in 2013-14. The Government .....

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..... is aware of the slowdown in the economy and has outlined several measures in the Budget 2014-15 to improve growth of manufacturing sector that, inter alia, include: (i) initiatives for skill development including in rural areas; (ii) extension of the ten year tax holiday to undertakings that begin generation, distribution and transmission of power by 31.3.2017; (iii) measures to augment low cost .....

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..... long term foreign borrowings by Indian companies; (iv) proposal for promotion of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in selected sectors; (v) proposal for allowing manufacturing units to sell products through a retail including E-commerce platforms without any additional approval; (vi) proposal to set up National Industrial Corridor Authority to coordinate the development of the industrial corridors; .....

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..... (vii) proposal to provide investment allowance at the rate of 15% to a manufacturing company that invests more than ₹ 25 crore in any year in new plant and machinery; (viii) reduction in excise duty on specified food processing and packaging machinery etc, alongwith proposed rationalization of duties relating to different types of coal, scrap and diamond items; (ix) proposed reduction in th .....

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..... e basic customs duty on specific items like specified industrial grade crude oils, fatty acids, crude glycerin, steel grade limestone etc. This information was given by the Minister of State for Finance, Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today. - News - Press release - PIB Tax Management India - taxmanagementindia - taxmanagement - taxmanagementindia.com - T .....

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