Nearly 65% of adults in the Arab region remain excluded from formal financial systems, according to a new report by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). The Annual SDG Review 2025 paints a sobering picture of persistent financial exclusion that is undermining the region’s ability …
Minister accuses developers of submitting incomplete plans The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) will stick to its norms and criteria for evaluating projects and has rebuffed claims by the industry that delays in green clearances are obstructing projects, such as coal mining. Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan says her ministry …
A study finds that institutional support alone cannot help reduce maternal mortality in India. THE high rate of maternal mortality in India has been a cause for national concern, especially on account of the focus on reaching the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals by 2015. Although there is a growing …
PANJIM: Two days ago, the Manohar Parrikar government went for Rs 200 crore market borrowing, which it says would be utilized for infrastructure development and social sector schemes. The borrowing which is a part of Reserve Bank of India’s essential borrowing scheme is the second for the current financial year. …
New Delhi: The proposed National Investment Approval Board (NIAB) will help speed up environmental, forest and other statutory clearances for “nationally important” large projects and likely pull the economy out of the trough, Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said on Wednesday. The NIAB will have the mandate to …
The proposed National Investment Approval Board (NIAB) will help speed up environmental, forest and other statutory clearances for “nationally important” large projects and likely pull the economy out of the trough, Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said on Wednesday. The NIAB will have the mandate to take a …
The Planning Commission on Tuesday pitched for privatisation of coal mining, saying the government should have a consistent policy for the energy sector, as third-party sale is allowed for petroleum and natural gas in the country. “To my mind, the logic is very clear that it should be allowed (for …
Prime Minister, experts batted for 2.5% Months of deliberations on allocations for the critical health sector have ended with the Planning Commission making the final allocations under the 12th Five Year Plan. At a full meeting of the commission headed by PM Manmohan Singh, it was decided to set aside …
New Delhi Generation-based incentives and depreciation allowance to encourage production of power from new and renewable sources will be on top agenda for the 12th Plan. ‘‘The provision for inclusion of these incentives has been discussed with the Planning Commission and I have requested the planners to offer these for …
Dim prospects for international finance makes imperative to rework Plan on climate change With carbon markets at an alltime low and prospects of international long-term finance dim, the Planning Commission has suggested reworking the . 23,000 crore National Action Plan on climate change, which has made slow progress since it …
It is not just allocation of coal blocks that is being questioned. Just how misgoverned coal mining, and in fact the entire mining sector, is has emerged from a study sponsored by the Planning Commission. Focusing on four states, the study has found that illegal mining beyond the environment’s “carrying …
The Jan Swasthya Abhiyan on Monday called upon the Union Government to extend free medicine supply scheme, presently operational in a few States like Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu, all over the country to reduce out-of-pocket expenditure of common people on health care. Such a scheme would especially benefit the patients …
Despite having reached the half-way mark, the Odisha Government has laid out an ambitious plan to achieve total sanitation by 2019. By March, the sanitation coverage in the State stood at 55.33 per cent as per the Total Sanitation Campaign monitoring data of Government of India. Given the rate, the …
To provide relief to the power sector, which is reeling under a fuel crisis, the Planning Commission has circulated a paper on public-private partnership in electricity generation. In the paper, the commission pointed to the problems faced by power producers using domestic, as well as imported fuel. It has suggested …
The Planning Commission has sanctioned Rs.300 crore for the upcoming conference on bio-diversity (Conference of Parties) to be held here from October 1 to 19. This was informed by the Planning Commission to Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy. The State government is spending Rs.450 crore for the prestigious conference. …
Underlining the need for ramping up coal production to meet the growing domestic demand, the Inter-Ministerial Group on PPP in coal mining, comprising the Planning Commission, the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) and the Coal Ministry, has strongly pressed for Public-Private Partnership mode for mining and evacuation of coal from …
Even as the Coalgate is likely to take a toll on power sector by leaving fate of a number of private power companies captive coal mines in limbo, Planning Commission is banking high on private sector for power generation in the 12th plan (2012-17). The panel in the final document …
New Delhi The Supreme Court has expressed its reluctance to review the poverty line fixed at Rs 32 per capita per day in the country, noting the figure may not be “fabulous” but it was not for them to settle economic policies. “We cannot review or alter it. We cannot …
The Supreme Court has expressed its reluctance to review the poverty line fixed at Rs 32 per capita per day in the country, noting the figure may not be “fabulous” but it was not for them to settle economic policies. “We cannot review or alter it. We cannot settle economic …
* More funds to flow shortly JAMMU: The Planning Commission of India (PCI) has released Rs 1000 crore worth first installment of current financial year's annual plan for the State. The PCI would be releasing remaining amount of the plan during subsequent months. A handsome amount from out of Rs …
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has said Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) did not try hard enough to complete the committed work in 75 per cent of the blocks it had acquired through bidding. Also, ONGC could not monetise the discoveries made during the 2002-2011 period, leading to …
