The Cabinet today approved Minimum Support Price MSP for Copra for 2024 season. Briefing media in New Delhi, Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Singh Thakur said, the MSP for 2024 season is an increase of 300 rupees per quintal for milling copra and 250 rupees per quintal for ball copra over the previous season. He said, higher MSP will ensure better remunerative returns to coconut growers. In 2014-15, for milling copra MSP was five thousand 250 rupees per quintal and in 2024-25 it will be 11 thousand 160 rupees per quintal. For ball copra, in 2014-15 MSP was five thousand 500 rupees per quintal and in 2024-25 it will be 12 thousand rupees per quintal.
Mr Thakur said, Cabinet also approved the construction of new 4.56-kilometer-long, six-lane Bridge across River Ganga connecting Digha and Sonepur in Bihar. He said, the total cost for the project is over three thousand 64 crore rupees.
The Minister said, Cabinet also approved improvement and widening of the 135-kilometer stretch of Khowai-Harina road in Tripura. He said, the project involves an investment of over two thousand 486 crore rupees which includes a loan component of over one thousand 511 crore rupees.
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