central govt employees. It has assets of over Rs.1.15 lakh crore. By contrast, the EPF organization under the Labour Ministry oversees assets over Rs. 10 lakh crore. 7. India to discuss a) Economy a) BRICS meeting a) Official sources said the trade curbs, government is preparing a list projects at b) Contact Group on of priority projects for which BRICS meeting Economic and Trade investments could be sought (Page 16) Issues (CGETI) from other BRICS nations. c) Micro, Small and b) They said the list of big Sedium Enterprises projects (in addition to a (MSME) proposal to set up a mechanism to expeditiously resolve d) Intellectual Property barriers that are hurting Rights (IPRs) goods trade between BRICS member countries) will be taken up for discussion during the next months meeting of the groupings CGETI. c) Investments would be sought for projects (mostly in infrastructure sector) from other member nations viz. Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa d) The CGETI meeting sets the agenda for the BRICS trade and economy ministers meeting e) India is chairing the influential bloc BRICS for an 11-month term till Dec 2016. Indias list of projects will be similar to what Russia brought out during its term as the chair of the BRICS Group last year. f) The Russian list had
central govt employees. It has assets of over Rs.1.15 lakh crore. By contrast, the EPF organization under the Labour Ministry oversees assets over Rs. 10 lakh crore. 7. India to discuss trade curbs, projects at BRICS meeting (Page 16) a) Economy a) BRICS meeting b) Contact Group on Economic and Trade Issues (CGETI) c) Micro, Small and Sedium Enterprises (MSME) d) Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) a) Official sources said the government is preparing a list of priority projects for which investments could be sought from other BRICS nations. b) They said the list of big projects (in addition to a proposal to set up a mechanism to expeditiously resolve barriers that are hurting goods trade between BRICS member countries) will be taken up for discussion during the next months meeting of the groupings CGETI. c) Investments would be sought for projects (mostly in infrastructure sector) from other member nations viz. Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa d) The CGETI meeting sets the agenda for the BRICS trade and economy ministers meeting e) India is chairing the influential bloc BRICS for an 11-month term till Dec 2016. Indias list of projects will be similar to what Russia brought out during its term as the chair of the BRICS Group last year. f) The Russian list had
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