September 29, 2019
The prices of fuels have gone up
Despite protests staged by Congress, offices were opened on time and official
work was not affected at the Delhi Secretariat due to the strike. However, roads
leading to Rajghat and Ramlila Maidan, where Congress president Rahul Gandhi and
senior party leaders Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh among others held a
protest, witnessed heavy traffic. (Photo: Biplab Banerjee)
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seemed to be no impact of the "Bharat Bandh†call by Congress against the steep
hike in petrol and diesel prices, with offices, schools, and colleges opening at
their regular time and vehicles plying on the roads on Monday. Congress,
meanwhile, appealed to its workers not to indu-lge in any violent
protest.Traffic was affected in Daryaganj and around Ramlila Maidan due to the
protest and commuters faced problems in reaching their destinations as the cab
companies had hiked their fares.Mr Maken said protests were held "peacefullyâ€
and the party did not want to create more problems for the people who are
already being hit by "unprecedented†rise in petrol and diesel prices.
Schools
and colleges also had classes on time though students experienced difficulties
in finding transportation.Delhi Congress workers staged dharnas at petrol pumps
across the city, protesting against the hike in fuel prices.Even DTC buses and
cluster buses were running as usual and no reports of disruption were
received..Heavy police deployment was made in the national capital with reserve
police forces and motorcycle patrols put on high alert and police personnel
deployed at petrol pumps across Delhi to ensure that no untoward incident took
place. Congress national spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said that the prices of
petrol and diesel have reached Rs 83 per litre and Rs 73 per litre
respectively.Delhi Congress workers staged dharnas at petrol pumps across the
city, protesting against the hike in fuel prices. auto bearings factorys Factory
Policemen lathicharge on members of Indian Youth Congress in New Delhi on Monday
during the ‘Bharat Bandh’ called against fuel price hike and depreciation of the
rupee.
The prices of fuels have gone up without any break because the AAP
government in Delhi and the BJP ruled Central government have kept on increasing
VAT and excise duties on petroleum products,†the Congress leader said.Senior
Congress leaders, including Delhi unit chief Ajay Maken, protested by riding a
bullock cart to a petrol pump near Rajendra Place. A scooter was kept atop the
cart symbolising the plight of the common man.Traffic movement was normal across
the city
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September 26, 2019
When a customer uses a credit and debit card
The Railways, through its suburban railway network, will provide discounts of up
to 0.All public sector insurance companies will give auto bearings factorys Factory
discounts of upto 10 per cent of premium in their general insurance policies and
eight per cent in new life policies of the Life Insurance Corporation sold
through portals, if payments are made through digital means.
When a customer
uses a credit and debit card to purchase of goods or services, merchants are
charged a merchant discount rate (MDR) by the card-issuing banks.75 per cent of
the sale price to consumers on purchase of petrol and diesel through digital
means. People will get a five per cent discount on digital payments for
catering, accommodation and retiring rooms, among others, being offered by the
Indian Railways through its affiliated entities or corporations. (Photo: PTI)
New Delhi: To encourage people to go cashless, the Centre on Thursday announced
discounts for buying petrol, diesel, railway tickets and catering, insurance
from PSUs insurers and national highway toll through digital means like online
banking, credit and debit cards and e-wallets.
About 70 per cent of all
transactions are less than Rs 2,000.5 per cent to customers for monthly or
season tickets purchases from January 1, 2017 if the payment is made through
digital means.The Centre will advise public sector banks that merchants should
not be required to pay more than Rs 100 per month as monthly rental fees for PoS
terminals/micro ATMs or mobile POSs to bring small merchants on board the
digital payments ecosystem. All railway passengers buying online ticket will get
a free accident insurance cover of up to Rs 10 lakhs. However, this waiver will
be limited to payments upto Rs 2,000 in a single transaction.
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clarify that merely depositing money in the bank doesn’t mean that it changes
colour from black to white. TheRBI had said on Wednesday that nearly Rs
11.State-owned petrol pumps will give a discount of 0.Finance minister Arun
Jaitley said petrol and diesel worth Rs 1,800 crores is sold per day, out of
which nearly 20 per cent was being paid through digital means.44 lakh crores
junked notes were back in the system. In November it had increased to 40 per
cent, and cash transactions of Rs 360 crore per day had got shifted to cashless
transaction methods, said the finance minister. Mr Jaitley said the state
governments are also being advised that they should consider absorbing the
transaction fee charges related to digital payments made to them and that
consumers should not be asked to bear it. Its tax liability will still remain
because what is unexplained would still remain taxable,†he said. He said the
incentive scheme has the potential of shifting at least 30 per cent more
customers to digital payment means, which he said will further reduce the cash
requirement of nearly Rs 2 lakh crores per year at petrol pumps. The finance
minister said Central government departments and PSUs will ensure that
transaction fee charges that are associated with payments through digital means
will not be passed on to consumers, and all such expenses shall be borne by
them.
Mr Jaitley said around 80 lakh passengers use season or monthly tickets on
the suburban railways, largely in cash, spending nearly Rs 2,000 crores per
year.85 lakh crores out of the Rs 15.Service tax waived for credit/debit card
transactions upto Rs 2,000 Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.The government
has also waived service tax on debit and credit card transactions of upto Rs
2,000.With 76 per cent of the old currency coming back into the banking system,
Mr Jaitley warned that mere depositing of old notes in the banks will not change
the money from "black†to "whiteâ€, and that tax liability would remain on all
unexplained funds.Mr Jaitley said for toll payments at toll plazas on national
highways using a RFID card or "fast tagsâ€, a discount of 10 per cent will be
available to users. In order to encourage merchants to accept card payments, the
government has waived service tax on MDR
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September 23, 2019
Mayor Snehal Ambekar visited the Britannia pumping station on Saturday
The pumping station will ensure that water accumulated in Hindmata and its
surrounding areas is discharged properly even if there are heavy rains,†she
said. To tackle this problem, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) had
decided to construct the Britannia pumping China Engine component
tensioners Manufacturers station at Reay Road.Hindmata area, which is
notorious for water logging during the monsoon, is expected to be free of
flooding problems this year.
Mayor Snehal Ambekar visited the Britannia pumping
station on Saturday. So far, four pumping stations, Haji Ali, Irla, Love Grove
and Cleveland, out of proposed eight have been commissioned by the BMC.Every
year, Hindmata and its surrounding areas get flooded during the monsoon,
especially during high tide, which brings life to a standstill. The pumping
station will be commissioned before the monsoon. Work on the Britannia pumping
station is in the final stages and it will be operational this monsoon.According
to civic officials, the work of setting up pumps at Britannia is in the final
stage and will be completed by the end of this month. File picture of flooding
at Hindmata in Parel. The BMC has planned to construct eight pumping stations
under the project.When operational, the Britannia pumping station will bring
relief to 10 major chronic flooding spots like Hindmata, Parel, Lalbaug,
Byculla, Kalachowki, Abhyuday Nagar etc. The Mumbai Port Trust has given a
2,200-sq-metre plot on rent basis to the BMC for this pumping station for a
period of 30 years. But the pumping station at Mogra (Andheri) is still awaiting
environmental clearances. The Gazdarband pumping station work at Santa Cruz has
started, while the Maharashtra Costal Zone Management Authority has given its
NOC to the Mahul pumping station. The Rs 115 crore pumping station will have six
pumps with the total capacity of discharging water at 36 cubic metres per
second.
Hindmata area, which is notorious for water logging during
the monsoon, is expected to be free of flooding problems this year.The Britannia
pumping station has been constructed under the Brihanmumbai Storm Water Disposal
System project, which is being implemented to prevent flooding and stagnation of
water in low-lying areas of the city.
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