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Hyderabad, March 25

The spiralling cost of cement should be brought down by importing cement from abroad, according to experts at International Infrastructure Consultants Private Ltd.

The constant increase in cement price was due to demand-supply gap which should be corrected by facilitating easy cement import from abroad, Mr A. Ramakrisha, Director of Chennai-based IIC told newspersons at a press conference here on Tuesday to announce ‘Infrastructure Today’ an international conference to be held here from Wednesday.

“There is a need to remove all import duties on the cement imports to make it available at around Rs 150 per bag against the present market price of over Rs 220 per bag,” he said.

The cement imports from Pakistan could not take off due to the ‘British Standards 12’ (BS12) clause, he said, adding free import of cement should be allowed.

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