Finance Ministry to hold meeting of heads of banks on Wednesday
The Finance Ministry is set to review the development of variousfinancial inclusion schemes as it has called a meeting of heads of Public Sector Banks (PSBs) on Wednesday.
The Finance Ministry is set to review the development of variousfinancial inclusion schemes as it has called a meeting of heads of Public Sector Banks (PSBs) on Wednesday.
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has suggested a seven-point agenda to the Finance Ministry for the Union Budget-2025.
The Finance Ministry said that the government will continue its focus on improving quality spending, strengthening the social security net and bringing down the fiscal deficit to 4.5 per cent of the GDP in FY26.
Sufficient food grain buffer stock and optimism for a healthy kharif harvest are likely to alleviate price pressures, a recent report by finance ministry said.
Furthermore, during the past 5 months (April-August) of the current financial year 2024-25, the transaction volume has reached to 8,659 crore, it added.
The company is targeting assets abroad of more state-run companies in a bid to recover dues from the government.
The shift of DPE to the Finance Ministry will help in efficient monitoring of the capital expenditure, asset monetisation and financial health of the Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs).
The ministry also pointed out that India and Switzerland are signatories to the Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters (MAAC) and both countries have also signed the Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement (MCAA), and in view of the existing legal arrangement there doesn't seem to be a significant possibility of the increase of deposits in the Swiss banks.
To enable ministries/departments expedite capital expenditure, it said, the cash management guidelines issued by the Ministry of Finance under the OM of 2017 have been relaxed.
NSDL provides infrastructure that handles most of the securities held and settled in dematerialised form in the Indian capital market.
