Metal recycling industry calls for policy adjustments to boost circular economyIndustry officials have highlighted that the Goods and Service Tax, import duty, and lack of initiatives for a circular economy are impedin...
24 Jan, 2024, 06.11 PM IST
Scrap availability going to be challenging as 60 nations take measures to ban exports: steel secyThe Indian government has been encouraging and urging domestic players to make efforts in increasing scrap's share in steel manufacturing.
29 Sep, 2023, 09.59 AM IST
Maharashtra to set up four circular economy parks for major industriesThe government is ready to offer lots of incentives to early birds in the form of lower GST rates, lower power and water tariffs along with...
05 Feb, 2023, 04.01 PM IST
Centre to push primary steel producers to use 50% of input from recycled steel by 2047, says ScindiaNoting that recycling is the key cog in the wheel of manufacturing as economies move into a circular model of development, he said, "Going ...
04 Feb, 2023, 02.38 PM IST
Ship-breaking capacity at Alang in Gujarat to be doubled: Sarbananda Sonowal"With the proposed expansion plan of doubling the capacity of yards, the employment opportunity will also get doubled, bringing more econom...
12 Sep, 2022, 05.47 PM IST
Over 1,500 delegates expected to participate in MRAI conferenceThe meet will be addressed by the likes of Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog, Dharmendra Pradhan, Union Minister of Steel, Prakash Javadekar, U...
30 Jan, 2020, 03.58 PM IST
Modi 'best doctor' to cure India of major 'diseases': Arjun Ram MeghwalMeghwal said cleanliness, corruption, poverty, communalism, casteism and terrorism are the six diseases, identified by the prime minister, ...
19 Jan, 2018, 01.49 PM IST
Budget 2018: Secondary steel makers demand removal of import duty on scrapAbolition is expected to help small and medium steel enterprises that are dependent on imports for around 60 per cent of their raw material...
17 Jan, 2018, 01.20 PM IST
- E-waste can be turned into an economic opportunity: Expert
New Delhi, Sep 10 (IANS) An Indian-Australian scientist who has been looking for ways to transform waste into something useful, said here o...
10 Sep, 2016, 09.20 PM IST
Steel Ministry to look into import duty on metal scrapsSteel Secretary Aruna Sundararajan assured the industry that the ministry will look into import duty structure on imports of all types of m...
22 Jan, 2016, 07.57 PM IST
- Steel Ministry to consider demands of recycling sector
The union steel ministry will seriously consider the demands of the country's recycling industry for support in the form of strong policy i...
22 Jan, 2016, 06.29 PM IST
Metal recycling industry wants government to draft a new policy for sectorThe industry is set to register an annual growth of 11.4 per cent till the year 2020 as per a recent report on metal recycling sector.
21 Jan, 2016, 07.29 PM IST
Policy to check pollution by commercial vehicles above 10 year on anvil: Nitin GadkariGovernment will soon frame an integrated policy to check pollution by over 10-year-old commercial vehicles, Road Transport Minister Nitin G...
04 Dec, 2015, 03.46 PM IST
Government will look into import duty on scrap, FTAs: Vishnu Deo Sai, MinisterThe Mines Ministry will look into the issue of import duty on scrap, special additional duty and trade pacts with countries, Union Minister...
05 Feb, 2015, 06.39 PM IST
- MRAI seeks Govt support to import radiation detection equipment
Metal Recycling Association of India (MRAI) has requested the government to reduce and/or abolish import duty levied on radiation detection...
06 Sep, 2010, 02.38 AM IST
- Shipbreakers from India, Pak and Bangla plan united front
Representatives of ship breaking communities of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh have decided to form a common front to oppose the new IMO-ma...
02 Mar, 2010, 12.00 AM IST
- Govt to play safe with scrap metal imports
India does not want to ban imports of scrap metal because it needs them, but it will push ahead with new import rules to ensure the safety ...
03 Nov, 2006, 01.06 AM IST