Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
Parliament’s standing committee on finance has pulled up the government for failing to curb inflation and inflationary expectations due to lack of appropriate intervention in the market and asked it to formulate a comprehensive food management and pricing policy. The committee, headed by senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha, has asked …
As the government struggles to pursue development goals effectively, the United Nations (UN) has for the first time invited India’s civil society to voice opinions on steps to make a new agenda work for developing nations once the current millennium development goals (MDGs) expire in 2015. The move followed a …
SHILLONG: The survey for the Sixth Economic Census kick started in the State on Monday with the first citizen of Meghalaya, Governor RS Mooshahary, being enumerated at the Raj Bhawan by the census officials from the Directorate of Economics and Statistics. The team conducting the survey is led by Arnel …
India’s energy consumption has risen at a compounded annual growth rate of 5.96% in the last three decades even while GDP has grown by 5.7%, pointing to need for fuel price reforms and securing more of the hydrocarbon from domestic sources. According to the Energy Statistics report for 2013 prepared …
The newly-formed Cabinet Commitment on Investment (CCI), floated by the government to fast-track big-ticket projects, has its task cut out. Among the 198 mega central sector projects costing over R1,000 crore under implementation, nearly half, or 81, are running behind schedule. These include seven projects being executed by the railways …
The Odisha treasury could have benefited to the tune of Rs 4 lakh crore in the form of non-tax receipts since 2003-04 had the state government cancelled the leases of mines running on deemed extension basis and handed those properties to Odisha Mining Corporation (OMC), said Union minister for statistics …
The average household in rural India spends just 43 rupees (77 US cents) per head a day, with their urban equivalents consuming almost double, according to new government data. The latest study from the National Sample Survey Office, a huge undertaking every two years, shows that average monthly per capita …
LUCKNOW: The National Sample Survey Office, Union Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India will be conducting a survey on drinking water, sanitation, hygiene, housing condition and urban slums from the selected households/slums during its 69th round of survey to be conducted from July 1 to December 31. …
Calling for research by defence scientists for the common man, Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Sunday said it did not matter how many Agni missiles India launched, but what mattered was toilets at home. Speaking at the launch of the first of bio-digester toilets developed by the Defence …
Information on the situation of farmers in the country will be collected as part of the 70th round of the National Sample Survey, to be conducted by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) from January 2013. “The 70th round of National Sample Survey , starting from January 2013 that will …
Bhubaneswar: The National Sample Survey (NSS) set up in 1950 by the Centre to collect socio-economic data employing scientific sampling methods, will start its 69th round from July 1. The survey will continue up to December 31 covering 9, 428 villages and 7, 684 urban blocks in the country. In …
Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda’s ‘Haryana Number One’ slogan is losing its shine. In advance estimates made by the state Planning Department for 2011-12, Haryana’s growth has hit a seven-year low of 8.1 per cent. Haryana has been on the path of high growth since 2005-06, when Hooda’s government came …
Gujarat Grows At 9.1%, Fails To Make It To Top 5 New Delhi: Bihar, which was synonymous with poverty, has emerged as the fastest growing state for the second year running, clocking a scorching 13.1% growth in 2011-12. Not just that, on the back of four years of double-digit growth, …
In what belies the popular notion of a depressed investment environment in the country, the government’s spending on central sector projects commissioned in the first half of the previous financial year had risen exponentially, according to data obtained from the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI). In the central …
The importance of sustainable development and climate change have been put into sharp focus in the latest Economic Survey 2011-12. The Economic Survey lays special emphasis on the development of a green economy. An important step in this direction is being taken by the ministry of statistics and programme implementation …
Amid increasing pointers to a slowdown in the hinterland, the Government is planning to conduct its Sixth Economic Census in collaboration with states during the course of this year. The focus, for the first time ever, will be on gathering entrepreneurial data at village and ward level, especially for unorganised …
Though almost three years into its second tenure at the Centre, UPA-II continues to be plagued with the virus of "policy paralysis", which seems evident from the fact that several high profile projects in significant sectors are running way behind schedule led by Railways whose projects have recorded 103 per …
The government on Tuesday revised the economic growth rate for 2010-11 financial year slightly down to 8.4 per cent from the earlier estimate of 8.5 per cent. “The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at factor cost at constant prices in 2010-11 has registered a growth of 8.4 per cent over the …
NEW DELHI, 31 JAN: The government today revised the economic growth rate for 2010-11 financial year slightly down to 8.4 per cent from the earlier estimate of 8.5 per cent. “The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at factor cost at constant prices in 2010-11 has registered a growth of 8.4 per …
REFUSING any information to the government is now a punishable offence. The recently enacted Collection of Statistics Act, 2008, makes it mandatory for companies, individuals and households to reveal information sought by government-contracted data collectors. Failure to do so entails a maximum penalty of Rs 1,000 in case of individuals …
