Cement Sector
Is Government trying to regulate the cost of Cement to lower the infrastructure cost Government is in dual mode of increasing excise duty and making sure cement cost is locked for year time. Raising the excise duty and expecting the cement industry to not raise prices will give governement additional money. The rise in cement prices is transferred to higher real estate costs, which are already sky high in India. This way, the FM is trying to make money from a flourishing industry without giving them the incentive to raise money and indirectly curbing inflation. This dual Excise structure is absurd and impractical. In fact I firmly believe that the FM was merely trying to increase excise duty rates on Cement. He has managed to paint it as an exercise in price control. A shrewd way of raising the excise and not being blamed for the price rise. Prices of all commodities have sky rocketed but cement seems to be drawing most of the flak. It is probably true that the cement companies are min
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