By: Vishal Bhat Vice-President, Tata Teleservices SMEs : Driving Growth and Enhancing Customer Experiences Through UCaaS In today’s dynamic business landscape Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) has emerged as an essential imperative for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) seeking to enhance customer experiences. As UCaaS involves integration of different communication channels and intuitive user […]
The MSME Ministry has proposed the Trade Enablement & Marketing Scheme to help MSEs onboard ONDC. The MSEs will be provided subsidies via seller network participants to help cover costs for services like creating catalogues, managing accounts, packaging, and logistics. Earlier this year, ONDC also launched the Digi Ready Certifications (DRC) portal for the MSME […]
A sliding yuan and extensive outflows of cash from the mainland into Hong Kong show China’s domestic investors are shelving expectations for any immediate recovery in their home markets and fleeing to the closest better-yielding assets. The yuan has dropped to seven-month lows, alongside a reversal in equity investment flows into China. Analysts said Hong […]
Unincorporated enterprises in the manufacturing sector lost nearly 1.8 million establishments and shed 5.4 million jobs between July 2015-June 2016 and October 2022-September 2023, an analysis of the fact sheet on ‘Annual Survey of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises (ASUSE)’ and the comparable 73rd round survey in 2015-16 by the National Statistical Office (NSO) showed. An estimated […]
Budget 2024 Expectations: Economists batted for continuing the capital spending push to spur growth, fiscal prudence and steps to boost jobs. The focus on the quality of spending, sans mindless freebies and steps to further curb inflationary pressure should continue, some of the economists told Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman at the meeting, advising against reckless […]
The insolvency regulator has proposed that the resolution plan submitted by an investor won’t extinguish the creditors’ right to proceed against loan guarantors to the stressed firm and enforce realization of guarantees governed through various agreements. The move, suggested in a discussion paper by the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI), will make it […]
MOSPI looking at ways to increase frequency of statistics on employment and unemployment. In what could bridge the gap on high frequency data on jobs in the economy, the Government is looking at increasing the frequency of the Periodic Labour Force Survey. According to sources, the PLFS may move from a quarterly to a monthly […]
Changing the head of F&O income from ‘business income’ to ‘speculative income’ will be a big step because it will be considered at par with lottery or crypto investments. The Government is considering various options to discourage retail participation in the futures and options (F&O) segment. The proposed steps include moving F&O from the head […]
Ways to promote ease of doing business, Jan Vishwas 2.0, World Bank’s upcoming B-READY index, and the national single window system, were discussed at a meeting chaired by Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) Secretary, Rajesh Kumar Singh. Officials said that this is the first of such interactions with industry and other stakeholders. We have taken […]
The fiscal deficit, which reached a record high of 9.2% of GDP in Covid-hit FY21, has been brought down to 5.6% in FY24 and is projected to be 5.1% in the FY25 interim Budget presented on February 1. The Budget for 2024-25 should focus on fiscal rectitude while providing for social welfare, capital expenditure, and […]
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