Important Cabinet Approvals: November 6, 2019
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approve several Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and proposals. They are listed below:
List of MoUs Approved
- India and Paraguay – Strengthening Cooperation in the field of Tourism.
- India and Brazil – Strengthening Cooperation in the field of Health and Medicine and also signing of the Protocol to amend the Convention for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income.
- India and Switzerland – Technical Cooperation in the field of Climate Change and Environment.
- India and Guinea – Cooperation in the field of Renewable Energy
- India and Maldives – Training and Capacity-Building Programme for Maldivian Judicial Officers in India.
- India and German – collaboration in the field of Occupational Diseases, Re-habilitation and vocational training of Insured Persons with disabilities
- India and Bangladesh – Withdrawal of 1.82 cusec of water from Feni River by India for drinking water supply scheme for Sabroom town Tripura, India.
Other approvals
- Establishment of a ‘Special Window’ fund to provide priority debt financing for the completion of stalled housing projects that are in the Affordable and Middle-Income Housing sector. The government shall act as the Sponsor and the total commitment to be infused by the Government would be upto INR 10,000 crore.
- Approved the Cadre Review of Posts & Telegraphs Building Works Service, Group ‘A’. The number of Duty posts was fixed as 105.