Govt to bring National Jute Board Bill

New Delhi, Mar 9 (UNI) Aiming to restructure and coordinate the operations of a large number of organisations functioning in the jute sector, the Government will bring a National Jute Board Bill, 2006, in parliament, the cabinet decided today.

The creation of the National Jute Board at Kolkata ''is a major organisational initiative of the National Jute Policy, and it will be the agency to coordinate and implement programmes of the jute sector,'' Parliamentary Affairs Minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi told reporters.

The cabinet committee on economic affairs had approved the National Jute Policy in March last year.

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