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Low motorisation rate an opportunity for auto industry to develop on elect
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 7 (ANI): NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant on Thursday said the prevailing low rate of motorisation can be transformed into an opportunity for the automobile industry to carve its own path for production of electric vehicles.
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NITI Aayog CEO pushes for reforms in India's over-regulated higher ed
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 14 (ANI): NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant on Friday pitched for more rapid reforms in India's higher education sector.
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Electric vehicle industry wary of FAME-2 rollout
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 7 (ANI): The Society of Manufacturers of Electric Vehicles (SMEV) has raised its concern to NITI Aayog Chairman Amitabh Kant, about the confusion on the continuity of the government's incentives and initiatives to promote electric vehicles under FAME 1 (Faster a
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Shaktikanta Das, Amitabh Kant hail 'historic' midnight rollout o
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 1 (ANI): Former economic affairs secretary Shaktikanta Das, who was present at the Central Hall of the Parliament for the special midnight session, tweeted that he was fortunate to witness 'history being made', with the official rollout of the Goods and Serv
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BHIM has achieved world record with 17 million downloads, says Amitabh Kan
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 25 (ANI): Talking about the performance of the Bharat Interface for Money (BHIM) app of the government, Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said that the app has successfully recorded 17 million downloads so far, which is a world record in itself.
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Concept of Digital Payments has seen a mass movement in India, says Amitab
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 21 (ANI): Addressing the media on the progress in making Digital Payments a mass movement in India, CEO Niti Aayog Amitabh Kant said that there are nearly 10 lakh citizens who have so far got reward money of over Rs. 153.5 crore for embracing digital payments.
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Inclusion of arts, culture to add soul to smart cities: Amitabh Kant
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [ANI], Dec.20 (ANI): Complementing FICCI for raising the issue of inclusion of art and culture into city infrastructure, which he said is long overdue, Amitabh Kant, CEO, Niti Aayog said, "We must look into incorporating creative arts into the smart cities project."
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Cash shortage will end by mid-Jan 2017, says Amitabh Kant at FICCI's
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec.16 (ANI):The government today declared that the cash shortage induced by demonetization of high value currency notes would end by mid-January by which time about Rs. 3.5 crore of black money would be sucked out of the economy, leaving about Rs.12 crore in cash to finan
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Indian luxury sector may touch USD 18.5 bn this year; need to create own l
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 25 (ANI): The luxury market in India is likely to touch USD 18.5 billion (bn) in 2016 as against USD 14.7 bn last year and will clock a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 25 percent, chief executive officer (CEO) of NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transformin
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There should be one policy for retail business and e-commerce, says Amitab
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep 2 (ANI): India is the only country where there are different policies for different segments of the retail business and e-commerce. Logically, there should be one policy, said Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog, while interacting with CEOs at the Valedictory Session of the
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