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Government will evaluation bullion imports strategy, says Anand Sharma

 Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma
Amid strain for calming curbs on bullion import , trade and Industry Minister Anand Sharma on Friday said the government would evaluation the policy, noting there is a need to sock a equilibrium.

The Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT), the business escritoire, the monetary affairs escritoire and Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will converse and take a communally result, Sharma said on the sidelines of an affair.

He, nevertheless, declined to bestow any instance frame.

"As and when situation   demands, I will discuss  with investment minister. We think that there has to be a sense of balance. The anxiety of the  industry have to be met.

"At the similar time we should not fetch in controls in unnecessary method which go in front to people bringing it in during other resources like smuggling. Government is observance attentive eye. I am assuring that sufficient bullion is obtainable for charms and jewellery manufacturing," he said.

He said the department was following 80-20 policy that means 20 percent of the bullion imported into India be supposed to get worth adding up and exported.

"There is no lack when it comes to ease of use of gold for the jewelry and jewellery division and for those who are occupied in business of price adding up for exports. The situation PSUs have ensured stable flood and ease of use. We will revert to the condition since we reflection that it is on senior side," he said.

Sharma said media should also appear at firewood imports.

"Why did the nation which has the third main reserves of firewood in the world get required into a position to trade in firewood merit about $22 billion when we are conversation of only necessary imports like fuel products, not poisonous oil and fertilizers. Why are we importing coal and why should India not be exporting flatten ore?" he asked.

"These are some of the things which wound Indian wealth and which should be stuff of countrywide anxiety. That is where adherent affairs of state has come in that India was not bright to colliery the coal which India has," he extra.

On trade arrears, he said it would be considerably not as much of than the last year. He, nevertheless, declined to provide numbers.

"I can only tell you that in exports we will be doing enhanced and imports will be realistically take away as a upshot deal version arrears this year would be lesser and generally exports presentation will be a good deal better," he said.

Govt criticises Goldman Sachs for forecasting Narendra Modi’s victory in 2014 elections


Zee Media Bureau

New Delhi: American multinational investment banking firm Goldman Sachs’ recent note on optimism over political change in India has irked Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma.

The Commerce Minister in an interview to a business daily said that the investment banking firm should concentrate upon “doing what they claim to specialise in”.

Goldman is parading its ignorance about the basic facts of Indian economy; and it also exposes its eagerness to mess around with India's domestic politics,” said Sharma.

Goldman Sachs had noted expectations that the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, led by prime minister candidate Narendra Modi, could prevail in parliamentary elections due by May 2014.

The firm had also upgraded its view on India to "marketweight", with a target for the Nifty of 6,900 points.

Goldman noted that external capital account pressures have moderated for now, and cites signs of a cyclical pick-up and structural improvements in the economy.