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Shortage of Customs Officers impediment to EXIM business: Trade

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Source: http://www.portwings.in/articlesinterviews/shortage-of-customs-officers-impediment-to-exim-business-trade/ Port Wings News Bureau: While the Prime Minister Narendra Modi strongly emphasizing on increasing exports from the country on every available forum,  shortage of Customs officials, mainly responsible for facilitating the export and import (Exim) sector, is going to be a real impediment to the sustained growth of trade, analyst say. According to official sources in Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC), the shortage of manpower in Customs Department has  increased gradually over the years and now stands at about 40% . Speaking to Port Wings, Mr Murugan, a regular exporter of agricultural products from different East Coast ports, said, “There is a huge shortage of Customs officials at lower, middle and top levels for the last few years in most of the sea ports as well as airports, and it was badly affecting the trade.” “Shortage of official...
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PM Modi to lay foundation of SEZ at JNPT

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Source: http://www.portwings.in/ports/pm-modi-to-lay-foundation-of-sez-at-jnpt/ Mumbai: Port Wings News Bureau: The Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi will lay the foundation of a Port- Based Multi-product Special Economic Zone (SEZ) at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) at Sheva, Navi Mumbai on Saturday, August 16, 2014. According to a media statement, the infrastructure project is to be established on 277 hectares with a total Public and Private investment of about Rs 4,000 Crore.  Besides, the project, being planned as a Self-Sustainable Integrated Development Project, has a potential of generating over 1.5 lakh direct and indirect jobs. The ambitious SEZ to be developed through JNPT-SPV (Special Purpose Vehicle) under the Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC) mode is scheduled to be completed within three years. With a focus on the upcoming sectors of India, the SEZ will develop Free Trade Warehousing Zone, Engineering Goods Sector, Electro...
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Lankan Tamil Newspaper Uthayan office in Jaffna set on fire

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Source:  http://onlineuthayan.com/english-news/uthayannews/x284z263h1h1r2p2 Early morning incident – printing machine scorched, press set on fire by unknown group this morning. An attack is again executed against the "Udayan" daily newspaper published from Jaffna today in the early morning hours. Unidentified armed group stormed into the printing press point blankly carried out shooting.  Shooting was executed towards the print machine, doused the printing machines with petrol and set fire to them.  This incident caused the printing machine not usable for operation and a large quantity of printing rolls was set on fire was said. This attack was carried out in the motive of hampering the daily circulation of  "Udayan" newspaper, and this caused the printing work to get affected severely. Three persons clad with helmets came to the entrance of "Udayan" office today 13th April,  in the early morning hours at about 4.30 a.m and one of the...
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