Delhi Solar Energy Policy, 2023
The Delhi government launched the Delhi Solar Policy 2023, in which residents consuming over 400 units of electricity can install solar panels bring electricity bill charge to zero. Under the newly launched
The Delhi government launched the Delhi Solar Policy 2023, in which residents consuming over 400 units of electricity can install solar panels bring electricity bill charge to zero. Under the newly launched
As the neoliberal edifice crumbles in the face of rising prices, a rationing regime becomes the only way of protecting the poor from their impact. Murli Deora, Petroleum Minister, and P. Chidambaram, Finance Minister, at a function in New Delhi.
The problems in petroleum pricing stem from a flawed method, and will cause immense harm to the oil companies and endanger energy security. A DEBATE without data would be a meaningless exercise. But a debate with faulty or fudged data would be positively dangerous. The prolonged national "debate' over the need to increase petroleum product prices is exactly that. One of the most important arguments of the government was that the move was urgently needed to stem the bleeding losses of the publicly owned oil companies.
THE Indian economy has been at tipping point for some time now, poised to enter a period characterised by slow growth and high inflation. The government's decision to hike the prices of petrol, diesel and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) could well be the final push. In the government's view the hike was inevitable, given the sharp increase in the international prices of crude and India's dependence on imports to meet much of its consumption. If the hike came only when it did, it was because electoral compulsions and the opposition forced the government to hold back.
Chaturvedi Panel Feels States Should Follow Centre's Example To Contain Petro Price Spiral STATES, which have earned a whopping Rs 65,000 crore as tax revenues from the oil sector in 2007-08 thanks to the high oil prices, may now have to relook at their tax structure. The high-level committee constituted by the prime minister to examine the fuel pricing in the country is of the view that the state governments should follow Centre's footsteps and adopt specific duty regime for petro products to remove the impact of spiral in prices.
Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Wednesday said that economic growth may moderate to about 8%, or a tad lower to 7.9% in the current fiscal, even as he pointed out that inflation would not affect expansion in medium or long-term basis.
Delay By Steel Min In Submitting Data Blamed INFLATION, which rose to 11.05% last week, is likely to stay above 11% this week too. And this time, the driver for high inflation numbers would be steel. The wholesale price index (WPI) to be reported on Friday will reflect the prices for the week ended June 14.
Macro-Economic Worries Cited; Outside Support Only; Demand Tough For Congress To Accept THE Samajwadi Party will demand a hefty price for sustaining the Manmohan Singh government
The rise in food and oil prices could "severely weaken' the economies of up to 75 developing countries, including Pakistan and Indonesia, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday in its first broad assessment of the crisis. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, IMF managing-director, warned that some countries were now at "a tipping point' because of the double impact of rising food and oil prices.
<p>As fuel and feedstock prices continue to rise, government entities continue to analyze the cause.
IN THE face of soaring oil prices, uk Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said that the country needs to increase its nuclear power capacity. Brown