Empowered Committee Of State

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  Tripura Forms State-Level Committee To Grant Citizenship Under CAA

  The Tripura state government has started the process of appointing officials to the State Level Empowered Committee and the District Level Committee for the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019.

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  Assam Plans To Ban Polygamy, Will Form Expert Panel Soon: Himanta Sarma

  The Assam government has decided to form an expert committee to examine whether the state legislature was empowered to prohibit polygamy, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced on Tuesday.

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  GST Not To Apply To Jammu And Kashmir In Current Form: State Minister

  Jammu and Kashmir Finance Minister Hasib Drabu today set the record straight on the GST Bill, saying the empowered committee has agreed that the proposed goods and services tax will not be extended to the state in the current form.

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  Kerala Backs Out Of Goods And Services Tax Bill Commitment, Says Amit Mitra

  Kerala has backed out of its commitment to support the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill, Chairman of the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers Amit Mitra said today.

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  Green Court Clears Decks For Hubli-Ankola Railway Line In Karnataka

  Decks have been cleared for the controversial Hubli-Ankola railway line, cutting across the eco-sensitive Western Ghats in Karnataka, with the National Green Tribunal giving its nod to Railways to approach the state government.

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  'Fears Based on Monsoon Predictions Misplaced,' Says Finance Minister Arun Jaitley

  The Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers met in New Delhi today to deliberate on the revenue neutral rate, besides other issues, for smooth roll out of Goods and Services Tax (GST).

• Sushil Kumar Modi resigns as GST panel chief

  Sushil Kumar Modi, who ceased to be Bihar Finance Minister following the Janata Dal (United) -BJP split, on Monday resigned as Chairman of the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers looking into the implementation of the proposed new indirect tax regime - Goods and Services Tax (GST).

• 'Vishwaroopam' row: Centre forms Committee to review Cinema Act

  After actor Kamal Haasan's movie 'Vishwaroopam' was banned in Tamil Nadu by the state government, the centre has appointed a judicial commission to review the Cinematography Act, which creates and empowers the national censor board.

• Mining operations in Karnataka likely to resume today

  Mining operations in Karnataka are likely to resume from today, a senior state government official said. Partially lifting its ban on mining operations in Karnataka ordered more than a year back, the Supreme Court on Monday gave its green signal for extraction of iron ores on 18 leases subject to certain conditions being fulfilled.

• Four new hydropower projects for Uttar Pradesh

  Four hydropower projects with a combined capacity of 3,400 KW will be set up in Uttar Pradesh in three years, the state government has said. An empowered committee headed by Infrastructure & Industrial Development Commissioner Anil K Gupta on Wednesday approved the successful bidders for setting up the new small hydropower projects (SHPs).

• Supreme Court panel report on Mullaperiyar dam vindicates our stand: Jayalalithaa

  Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa said that the state government's stand on the Mullaperiyar dam has been vindicated by the Supreme Court-appointed Empowered Committee's report which concluded that the structure was safe.

• Mullaperiyar dam: Kerala officials stay away from experts' visit

  Adding a new dimension to the raging Mullaperiyar reservoir row, Kerala officials today stayed away from the visit of the Supreme Court-appointed empowered committee experts alleging that they had declined to properly hear the state's views on the dam's safety aspects.