Statistical abstract Punjab 2012
The Statistical Abstract of Punjab is published annually by the Economic & Statistical Organisation. It contains the latest available data on important socioeconomic indicators of the State’s economy.
The Statistical Abstract of Punjab is published annually by the Economic & Statistical Organisation. It contains the latest available data on important socioeconomic indicators of the State’s economy.
Union Budget 2010-11 has given a forward thrust to the neoliberal agenda in all the crucial sectors where "reforms" had been stalled. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee addressing the media after the Economic Survey 2009-10 was tabled in Parliament on February 25.
Indrani Dutta KOLKATA: Presenting the 2010-11 Budget in the State Assembly on Monday, West Bengal Finance Minister Asim Kumar Dasgupta unveiled a financial statement that laid priority on minority affairs and madrasa education, backward classes' and women's development and emphasis on job creation.
REFORMS DEFICIT STAYS EVEN AFTER 2 DECADES This Time,FM Pranab Has His Plate Full TK ARUN THE Budget of 2010-11 would be the 20th reform budget, and, in a telling commentary on the progress made in some key areas, is likely to echo many of the concerns raised by Mr Manmohan Singh in the first reform budget of 1991-92.
With emphasis in the 12th Plan on the social services sectors for achieving more inclusive growth, the Delhi Budget has allocated Rs.9,796 crore or 65 per cent of the total Plan outlay of Rs.15,000 for 2012-13 on this sector. The money, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said, will be used for various social welfare schemes. These include the Dilli Annashree Scheme, under which two lakh vulnerable households would be provided food subsidy of Rs.600 per month as cash transfer. The amount would be paid to the senior-most female member of each household.
For the first time in three years, Delhi government’s budget for the health sector shifted its focus from Public Private Partnership (PPP) to primary and allied medical services. The budget allocation
From “development with a human face” in the 12th Five Year Plan, Delhi will be moving towards becoming a “good, productive and caring city” in the 12th Plan that begins in 2012, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said as she presented the Delhi Budget for 2012-13 in the Assembly on Monday. Noting that in the years ahead special attention will be paid to the qualitative improvements of the vastly upgraded infrastructure, Ms. Dikshit said the city will also fulfil the needs of the productive and creative citizenry by looking at their training, skill up-gradation and financing needs.
2/3rd Plan Outlay Earmarked For Social Sector New Delhi: Petrol will cost Rs 1.26 less per litre, but CNG, which fuels public transport on Delhi’s roads, is set to get costlier by Rs 1.77 per kilogram.
Amid widening price difference between petrol and diesel, the Finance Ministry is looking at the possibility of raising excise duty on diesel cars, a suggestion which was mooted long back by the Oil Ministry. "Hiking excise duty on diesel cars is still on the agenda. It was not taken up during the Budget. It will take some time. It will happen," a Finance Ministry official said.
While Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee signalled government intention to come out with a national food security Bill soon during his Budget speech, the action plan that has been worked out suggests that the legislation will not make it to Parliament for at least another year.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today presented in the State Assembly a deficit Budget of Rs 3464.46 crore for the 2010-11 financial year of the State. He expressed the hope that the State would be able to attain a growth rate of around nine per cent during the financial year.
The Ministry of Finance (MOF) announced Thursday that central government-funded expenditures on energy savings and emission reductions as well as on renewable energies development will total 97.9 billion
The 46 per cent allocation for infrastructure in the Budget is noteworthy. More important is the doubling of outlay in three years Vinayak Chatterjee / New Delhi March 15, 2010, 0:25 IST
The Indian government is driving the country on the road to fiscal perdition. It missed its target of fiscal deficit by a mile in the last budget. It has transparently under-provided for fuel subsidies
Chandigarh: Aimed at creating awarness about environmental issues, the first-of-its kind Environment Training Institute at Gurgaon has proved to be non-starter due to resource crunch the Haryana Government.
Amiya Kumar Bagchi The Central budget of 2010-11 is a further step in the realisation of a vision of India vibrant with the income, wealth, saving, education and the entrepreneurial energy of the top 5-10 per cent of the population and the rest of Indians, serving that minority and surviving as barely literate, malnourished multitude.
Ranchi, March 2: The state government is planning to introduce a pension scheme for farmers in the new budget in an attempt to boost agriculture as this sector was lagging behind. Budgetary provisions for imparting training to farmers and developing warehouse facilities across the state, too, are on the cards.
The policy will include increasing the floor space index & easing of density norms An affordable housing policy is in the works to attract developers and to meet the shortage of around 25 million houses in the country. The Union Budget had announced access to external commercial borrowing (ECB) for affordable housing but the industry wasn't excited due to low margins in this category. Now, the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (Mhupa) is in the process of framing an affordable housing policy, expected to be finalised in two months.
<p>Accurate estimation of the groundwater budget requires good estimate of flux across the boundary of a region. Different methods and techniques are available to estimate recharge to groundwater; however
A study on irrigation projects across the state has exposed corruption to the tune of Rs26,000 crore in the sector in the last decade. The irrigation ministry says the total expenditure in the past 10