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 …
New Delhi: Planning Commission on Wednesday finalised the annual plan for Manipur at Rs 3,500 crores for the year 2012-13. This was finalised at a meeting between Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and State Chief Minister Ibobi Singh on Wednesday. In his comments on the performance of the …
NEW DELHI, June 6 – Claiming that Assam is the seventh fastest growing State in the country, Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday called for faster clearances of coal and gas linkages to revive the State’s power plants to resolve the perennial power crisis. Hailing the State’s robust economy, the …
The Planning Commission has proposed a slew of changes in the prevalent duty structure for the petrochemical industry for the new Plan period (2012-17). To begin with, it has urged the central government to establish single national level value-added tax (VAT)/ goods and services tax (GST) on plastic and articles …
The government has chosen home minister P Chidambaram to head the group of ministers (GOM) to decide on a regulator for the coal sector. The union cabinet had referred the draft coal regulatory authority bill to a GOM on May 10. The coal sector has been in the headlines over …
The Annual Plan for Assam for 2012-13 was on Tuesday finalised at Rs.10,500 crore at a meeting here between Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and State Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi. At this level, the Plan size is over 16% higher than the outlay for the previous fiscal. Initiating …
New Delhi: The Planning Commission — which set Rs 32 a day as the upper limit spend to qualify as poor, then cut it to Rs 28 — recently spent Rs 35 lakh on refurbishing two toilets at Yojana Bhavan. In response to an RTI query, it also admitted spending …
NEW DELHI, June 5 – Identifying agriculture and erosion and flood management as thrust areas, Assam’s Annual Plan for 2012-2013 was fixed at Rs 10,500 crore marking an increase of 16 per cent from last year’s Rs 9,000 crore. The Plan size was finalised at a meeting today attended by …
Says sector severely wanting in pollution & regulatory compliance The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), a non-government organisation based here and promoting sustainable development, today exposed major inefficiencies in the performance of India’s iron and steel sector. In a detailed rating, which took two years to compile, of the …
AHMEDABAD: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India may have painted a dismal picture of pollution in Gujarat, but the latest report of Planning Commission's environment and forest division reveals that the state has shown significant improvement in handling environment and pollution-related issues. Last year, the Planning Commission put …
Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Monday demanded the Union government accord special treatment to Tamil Nadu by absorbing a portion of the cost of the Rs.500-crore special package meant for meeting basic needs of the people residing around the Kundankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) site. In her speech at the Union …
Anew expert panel to identify the poor has been tasked with reviewing whether and how other criteria can be combined with the consumption basket. Though the focus remains on methodological issues, there is a real opportunity for a long overdue shift in the poverty debate from Garibi Hatao, aam aadmi …
KOLKATA, 1 JUNE: The chief minister, Miss Mamata Banerjee, who laid the foundation stone for a tourism project and 15 cyclone shelters at Sagar Island today announced that her government will undertake infrastructure development of Sagar Island with a view to promote tourism. “The Ganga Sagar Mela is a very …
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, …
AHMEDABAD: The Annual Plan for Gujarat for 2012-13 was finalized on Friday at Rs. 51,000 crore at a meeting held here between Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia. The current plan size is 34.21 % higher than the previous year's plan size of …
The Annual Plan for the year 2012-13 for Chhattisgarh was finalised here on Thursday at a meeting between Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Chief Minister Raman Singh. The Plan size has been agreed at Rs.23,480 crore and the economic growth is targeted at 10 per cent. During …
The Ministry of Tribal Affairs (MoTA)'s plan to introduce a Minimum Support Price (MSP) mechanism for 13 items of minor forest produce (MFP) has been approved by the Planning Commission. Sources in the Ministry told The Hindu that a detailed financial proposal would be sent to the Expenditure Finance Committee …
Sericulture, a combination of agriculture, forestry and industry, is both an art and science of rearing silkworms for silk production. Sericultural practices constitute an important livelihood support system for 66 lakh families in rural India.
The ministerial panel, headed by FM, recommends green clearance to be considered by the Cabinet In a major relief to Anil Ambani-led Reliance Power, Aditya Birla Group and Essar Power, a 12-member ministerial panel on coal on Wednesday recommended environmental clearance for two coal blocks linked to critical infrastructure projects …
GUWAHATI: A crucial meeting between the Assam Government and the Planning Commission to decide on the Annual Plan size for the State for the financial year 2012-13 is slated to take place on June 5. The Assam Government, said sources, will seek an Annual Plan allocation of Rs 14,537.33 crore. …
The Tamil Nadu Planning Commission has achieved an outlay of Rs 85,344 crore during the 11th Five-Year Plan that ended on March 31, 2012, an increase of 113 per cent over the outlay for the 10th Plan. The Plan incorporated the objective of achieving over 2007-2012, an average annual growth …
