Govt will set-up independent regulators for coal, road sectors in 4-months: FM

16 Apr 2013 Evaluate

Assuring the road and coal sectors, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said the government will set up independent regulators for coal and road sectors in next four months, which would become effective mechanisms to address problems being faced in implementation of road and coal projects. Currently, a lot of road and coal projects have been blocked for long due to various reasons including delays in environment clearances among others.

Finance Minister, who is on a week-long visit to US-Canada projected India as an attractive investment destination with stable fiscal regime and invited Canadian investments in sectors like infrastructure and food processing. Further, he said that India sees no difficulty in concluding a free trade pact with Canada. On the Foreign Investment Protection and Promotion Agreement (FIPPA), Chidambaram said there are certain legal issues which are being sorted out by the government.

Referring to the fiscal position of the Indian government, Chidambaram said that the government was committed to bring down the fiscal deficit. Right now the fiscal deficit is 5.3 per cent of the GDP and we want to reduce it by 0.6 per cent every year till it comes down to 3 per cent by 2016-17.

Recently Chidambaram had visited other major global financial hubs including Germany, Singapore, Japan, and Hong Kong to sell the India growth story. 

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