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10 projects approved by IPB have been ‘closed’

10 projects approved by the Investment Promotion Board (IPB) have been ‘closed’ for various reasons.

the goan I networkrPANAJIrrAccording to IPB Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Ashton Godinho, ‘closed’ in this case means that these projects can’t happen anymore. In some cases, they can’t materialise in the form they were approved by the IPB.rGodinho explained, “In some of these cases, the investor is no more, while, in some other cases, investors are not responding, when we try getting in touch with them. There are also few cases wherein we couldn’t provide the investors with the land he had asked for.”rDuring the tenure of the previous state government, the IPB had cleared 150 projects overall. Since 10 of them are closed, it means that 140 projects will now materialise in the state.rOf the remaining 140 projects, Godinho informed that there are 21 projects, where government will have to give more support to the investor.
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History @ midnight: the dawn of GST

# President, Prime Minister press button to officially launch GST n new tax regime replaces the messy rnmix of more than a dozen state and central levies built up over seven decades

The Goan Network
Published Jul 1, 2017, 4:08 AM IST
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ptirNEW DELHI rThe historic Goods and Services Tax (GST) was launched by President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the stroke of midnight at a gala event at the historic Central Hall of Parliament unveiling the new tax regime replacing overnight the messy mix of more than a dozen state and central levies built up over seven decades, with a one national GST unifying the country’s USD 2 trillion economy and 1.3 billion people into a common market.rThe new…

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