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BMC – Balancing Progress with Business Friendliness
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In the endeavor to make Bhubaneswar a truly Smart City, BMC needs to keep the needs of small businesses in mind The visit by BMC Commissioner Sri Prem Kumar Choudhury with his officials to the Unit-I and Unit-II markets and the decision to improve the conditions there, is a step in the right direction. At…

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Government in firefighting mode
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The central and state governments are caught in an unenviable position where they need to combat the effects of slowdown on incomes and jobs and simultaneously increase revenue collection to keep the economy running. The current slowdown in the Indian as well as global economies can be linked to a multitude of factors that are…

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Ivory tower economists and the reality of Indian small businesses
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Every year, we are privileged to first speculate, then listen to and finally analyse the annual budget. Before the budget, we also get the Economic Survey, that is supposedly the base upon which the budget is prepared. For a very long time, the populace used to wait for the budget with bated breath, hoping for…

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