THURSDAY, 2 JANUARY 2020 16 pages in 1 section www.business-standard.com MUMBAI (CITY) ~9.00 VOLUME XXIV NUMBER 100 THE MARKETS ON WEDNESDAY Chg# Sensex 41,306.0 52.3 Nifty 12,182.5 14.0 STRATEGY P15 BACK PAGE P16 Nifty futures* 12,243.8 61.3 Dollar ~71.2 ~71.4** Euro ~79.9 ~80.1** CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR CHANDRAYAAN-3 NEXT YEAR, Brent crude ($/bbl)## 66.3## 66.4** Gold (10 gm)### ~38,962.0 ~121.0 IN THE 2020s 4 CHOSEN FOR GAGANYAAN *(Jan.) Premium on Nifty Spot; **Previous close; # Over previous close; ## At 9 pm IST; ### Market rate exclusive of VAT; Source: IBJA PUBLISHED SIMULTANEOUSLY FROM AHMEDABAD, BENGALURU, BHUBANESWAR, CHANDIGARH, CHENNAI, HYDERABAD, KOCHI, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI (ALSO PRINTED IN BHOPAL), NEW DELHI AND PUNE CABLE TV TO COST GST collection I-T vets foreign LESS AS TRAI AMENDS New projects surge contribution TARIFF STRUCTURE crosses ~1 trn, The Telecom Regulatory Authority of sought by India has released amendments to the New Tariff Order, in which it has directed in December qtr but misses target Tata trust cable operators to provide 200 channels for ~153. The regulator has also set DILASHA SETH SHRIMI CHOUDHARY January 15 as the deadline for 37% y-o-y increase despite a fall in capacity utilisation New Delhi, 1 January New Delhi, 1 January broadcasters to announce their new MOP-UP pricing structure. At present, direct-to- SACHIN P MAMPATTA & AMRITHA PILLAY Goods and services tax (GST) The income-tax (I-T) department is exam- home or cable TV operators provide only Mumbai, 1 January collection crossed the ~1 tril- TREND ining the foreign contributions sought by 100 channels for a network capacity fee lion mark for the second Figures in ~cr the Navajbai Ratan Tata Trust (NRTT) as a of ~153 (~130 excluding taxes). 3 > nvestment in new projects increased by straight month in December, non-profitable entity in December 2015, more than ~1 trillion during October- but fell short of the ~1.1 trillion even after the Trust offered to surrender its ECONOMY P5 December 2019 over the same period in the target set for the last four charitable trust status earlier that year. The previous year. months of 2019-20. The latest NRTT is among the six Tata Trusts that I FDI rises 15% during There was ~3.1 trillion in new projects in numbers, however, indicated 2018 2019 had their registrations cancelled by the I-T December 2018. This has risen by 37.4 per cent on the stabilisation of revenue Apr 1,03,459 department in October. Apr-Sept to $26 bn a year-on-year basis to ~4.26 trillion in December collection owing to anti-eva- 1,13,865 The Trust had made an application on Inbound foreign direct equity last year, showed the data from project-tracker sion measures introduced by May 94,016 December 10, 2015, under Section 11 (1) of investments rose 15 per cent in the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE). the government. 1,00,289 the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act April-September period of the current The body releases capex data at the end of The mop-up stood at ~1.031 Jun 95,610 (FCRA), for acceptancing foreign contri- fiscal year, according to the data released every quarter. SIGNS OF INFRA BOOST trillion in December, slightly 99,939 butions by an association having a definite by the Department for Promotion of It also showed the proportion of “stalled proj- Figures in ~ trillion lower than the seven-month cultural, economic, educational, religious Jul 96,483 Industry and Internal Trade. The figures ects” is down 81.8 per cent to ~58,000 crore. high of ~1.034 trillion collected or social programme. This requisition was showed that in the first half of FY20, Completed projects remain at the same level. The in November. On a year-on- 1,02,083 made after it had given up Trust status in equity inflows amounted to $26.09 billi- number for December 2018 shows ~1.37 trillion. It year basis, the GST receipts in Aug 93,960 February 2015. on, up from the $22.66 billion received is ~1.36 trillion in December 2019. December 2019 posted a 98,202 In the FCRA application, the Trust had in the corresponding period of the The rise in new projects is despite a fall in growth rate of 8.9 per cent, the Sep 94,442 mentioned the previous year. capacity utilisation. It was at 68.9 per cent in the data released by the finance 91,916 detailed activities September quarter, noted the Reserve Bank of ministry showed on Oct 1,00,710 of the NRTT and The requisition India in its December 19 Monetary Policy Wednesday. 95,380 said that it was was made after ECONOMY & PUBLIC AFFAIRS P4 Committee meeting minutes. These figures are for GST Nov 97,637 established in 1974 the Navajbai Iran crude oil imports It was at 73.6 per cent previously. A similar on the transactions done in 1,03,492 by Ratan Naval Ratan Tata Trust decline is seen on a seasonally November and collected in Dec 95,726 Tata, in the memo- had given up slow to a trickle PAGE 9 adjusted basis as well. the month of December. 1,03,184 ry of his grand- Trust status in Imports of crude oil from Iran dipped to “Seasonally adjusted CU Although the December fig- mother Lady February 2015 EDIT: PUSH FOR Source: Finance Ministry 1.7 million tonnes (mt) in the current INFRASTRUCTURE (Capacity Utilisation) also fell ures come as a breather for the Navajbai Ratan financial year (2019-20, or FY20), down to 69.8 per cent from 74.6 per government, which is facing Tata. It further said from 23.9 mt in 2018-19, after India cent during the same period,” it said. This means intense revenue stress, these cent growth, the highest dur- that the Trust was registered with the office stopped imports from the West Asian that companies are increasingly unable to use are lower than the numbers ing the year. GST collection on of the charity commissioner, Mumbai, and country in May. In FY19, Iran was the third- their existing production capacity, which gives needed to meet the steep target imports continued to witness is registered under Section 12A of the largest crude exporter to India. Assuming them limited incentives to invest in adding capac- for 2019-20. a contraction of 10 per cent, as Income-tax Act, 1961. the United States' sanctions are not lifted, ity. This has weighed on capital goods companies. Note: December 2018 numbers are based on data retrieved earlier; Revenue Secretary A B against a fall of 13 per cent in Section 12A of the I-T Act enables a few crude oil imports from Iran will be the low- Marquee firms such ABB India and Siemens figures rounded off Source: CMIE Pandey has pressed for a November, indicating persist- types of organisations to get exemption est in at least 12 years, shows the available are seeing lower demand, noted brokerage firm monthly GST collection tar- ent weakness in domestic from income tax. When a trust or non-prof- data compiled by Business Standard. Motilal Oswal Financial Services. Growth in order at the banks’ lending data for industries, it is neg- get of around ~1.1 trillion demand and production. it organisation gets registered under Section flow fell to 5 per cent for ABB, according to the ative, so banks are not lending for capital forma- between December 2019 and The ministry also 12A, it is further eligible to get exemption recent quarterly data. Siemens’ order flow fell 14 tion. Capital investment is then coming from March 2020. Of these four released state-wise GST col- from income tax. Trusts and non-govern- COMPANIES P3 per cent. This, in turn, is said to be because of a PSUs borrowing from the bond market,” said months, ~1.25 trillion collec- lection figures from domes- ment organisations which don’t make prof- Apollo, Varde pull out slowdown in other markets such as auto, and Madan Sabnavis, chief economist, CARE Ratings. tion has to be achieved in at tic transactions. Arunchal its from their financial transactions are eli- food and beverages, said the 6th December Sector M S Unnikrishnan, managing director and chief least one month, he had told Pradesh witnessed the high- gible to register for 12A. If any non-profitable of race for Altico Update report, authored by research analysts executive officer (CEO), Thermax, said: “There tax officials. est growth at 124 per cent to trust or NGO has not registered for 12A, its Apollo Global Management and Varde Nilesh Bhaiya and Pratik Singh. were a couple of refinery projects awarded in the GST collection on domestic ~58 crore in December 2019 financial receipts or transactions would be Partners are no longer considering A public sector undertaking (PSU) push could December quarter from the public sector. Awarding transactions witnessed 16 per year-on-year. considered taxable. bidding for Altico Capital India, according be driving some of the gains. for road projects continued. There are also awards Apart from the activities, the Trust had to people familiar with the matter, “This should be coming from public sector in the railways and metro projects segment.” also submitted the trust deed along with an narrowing the number of suitors for the units. What they are borrowing from the market The government has also sought to push oth- P2 LAST YEAR’S SALES WORST YEAR-END FAILS TO audited statement of accounts for the past troubled shadow lender.