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Drishti ias academy current affairs
Drishti ias academy current affairs Published this article National Bamboo Mission (NBM) Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) schemes as well as States together with industry partners have stepped up focused support to enable India to become Atma Nirbhar in the agarbatti sector to bring back livelihoods for the local communities while modernising the sector too. The agarbatti sector traditionally provided large scale employment to the local workforce which however dwindled due to various factors including the ingress of cheap imports of round sticks and raw batti. A comprehensive study was carried out by NBM in 2019 following which policy measures taken by the Government of moving raw batti imports from free to restricted category in Aug 2019 and increasing import duty on round stick uniformly to 25% in June 2020 came as a boost to the domestic units drishti ias academy current affairs book buy. Drishti ias academy current affairs