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Report on the spot study of water situation in drought affected areas of the country (2015-16)
The report of on the Spot Study of Water Situation in Drought Affected Areas of the country (2015-16) has recommended construction of water harvesting structures, mass awareness among citizen for water
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Solving the climate dilemma: the budget approach
The German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) has developed an innovative approach to solving the problem of climate change. A key component is an agreement between the community of states regarding a cap for the total amount of
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NRHM funds lying unspent
New Delhi: The government is facing financial crunch and has to borrow massively from the market to meet its budget deficit, but an audit of one of its social sector schemes that has more than Rs 25,000 crore riding on it has found large amounts unspent.
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Government to conduct fresh survey of tribal population
PANJIM: The State government on Tuesday disclosed plans for conducting a fresh survey of the Tribal population in Goa that would facilitate implementation of schemes and disbursement of benefits for this backward section of society. Minister for Tribal Welfare Ramesh Tawadkar stated that the survey conducted almost a year ago to enumerate the tribal population was not correct, while speaking during Question Hour.
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Blackout the result of poor maintenance
Blamed by the Centre for the two successive days of blackout, state governments Wednesday decided not to buy electricity from outside their states at all, sending the price of electricity crashing to zero
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CAG exposes irregularities in land acquisition
Land acquired was not used for intended purpose The Comptroller and Auditor General report has found several procedural lapses in the acquisition of private land for public purpose and non-utilisation of the land, acquired for the intended purpose, causing additional liabilities to the Puducherry government. The CAG report, which was tabled in the Assembly on Monday, has also pointed out instances of revenue loss , wasteful expenditure and other irregularities in several departments.
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Big Bucks No Bang
Shorn of any big idea, Budget 2007 is an essay that tries to manage the exigencies of politics and the public outcry on inflation even as it attempts to balance the need for growth. It satisfies neither political wants nor economic needs.
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Karnataka Budget hikes tax on diesel
A modest surplus of Rs 72.8 crore notwithstanding, the Karnataka Budget fro 2004-05 carries some shocks for the industry. The highlights of the proposals in the Budget presented by the Deputy Chief
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The world’s largest safety net for family farmers?
India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is the largest public-works based employment programme in the world. Unanimously enacted by the Indian parliament in 2005, implementation
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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding periyar river pollution, Kerala, 21/01/2019
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Shibu Manuel, Secretary, Green Action Force Vs Govt. of India & Others dated 21/01/2019 regarding direction seeking for zero discharge of industrial
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Water! Water!
The deepening water crisis that affects the lives of crores of people has rarely been given a serious thought in a Union budget. For a change, in the 2004-05 budget Finance Minister P. Chidambaram
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Petrol price to come down a bit in Delhi, CNG to go up
Announcing the proposal, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said her government would incur a burden of nearly Rs.140 crore in revenue on this count. However, it would be more than covering up for this loss by imposing five per cent VAT on Compressed Natural Gas, on which the entire public transport in the city now runs. The move is expected to result in a hike in auto-rickshaw and taxi fares. In her budget speech, Ms. Dikshit delved on how since the introduction of the VAT system in Delhi, CNG has always been exempted from its purview “though the same should be taxed @ 12.5 per cent as per the recommendations of the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers.”
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Rs 5,500 cr sought for sarva shiksha
The department of elementary education is being realistic in its demands for the budget. It has asked for an additional Rs 5,500 crore, that is over and above the interim budget allocation, to be
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Centre moots state-level funds for Metro projects
New Delhi Highlighting its inability to support increasing number of metro projects, the Centre has asked state governments to follow the models of Karnataka and Delhi for financing capital-intensive Metro rail projects by levying cess on residential and commercial developments, and increasing house tax. It has also urged them to set up state-level urban transport funds with such levies to finance the projects. The Centre says its unable to support the increasing number of metro systems through the Budget and therefore wants the states to develop their own funding sources to part-finance such capital-intensive systems.
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Fossil fuel subsidies in Asia: trends, impacts, and reforms
Unsustainable budgetary cost of selling oil, gas, and coal at low prices has propelled energy subsidy reform in developing Asian economies. This report measures the size of associated subsidies on these
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Fighting Malnutrition
Interventions to fight malnutrition must be simultaneous with outcomes being monitored by an overarching body. The finance minister’s Budget 2012 speech contains the much-awaited, much-needed paradigm
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Land Bill unlikely this session
KOLKATA, 3 JULY: The state government is unlikely to introduce the much-awaited West Bengal Land Acquisition Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill in the ongoing extended Budget session of the Assembly.
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Union Budget 1999-2000
Union Budget 1999-2000.
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Maldives State of Environment Report: The Monthly Overview, November, 2014
<p><strong>The new green tax for tourists will be introduced in Maldives from November 2015 at a rate of US$6 per bed per night. Read more in November 2014 edition of the Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Maldives.</strong></p>