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 …
According to a CDP-KPMG report, the demand for water is set to exceed supply by about 50% in 2030 In 2007, Chandrapur Super Thermal Power Station in Maharashtra was shut down due to scarcity of water. In almost an action replay, 1,130 mega watt Parli thermal plant met with the …
Amid intense poll-time discourse over claims of development in Gujarat, the latest report on the economic freedom of Indian states has revealed that the western coastal state retained in 2013 the No.1 slot it held in 2011. Gujarat also widened the gap with Tamil Nadu, which lost the top rank …
Facing similar challenges in dealing with rising pollution levels in their top cities, India and China on Tuesday released for the first time a joint report to address the issues of climate change, providing practical recommendations for greater bilateral cooperation. ’The China India Low Carbon Study’, the first project of …
We will find solution within law to objections raised by foreign firms: Montek India has ruled out diluting the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act and hoped a solution to the stalemate caused by foreign companies not agreeing to two of its clauses will be found within the framework of …
A study sponsored by the Planning Commission shows that Haryana, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh are the top three industry-friendly states in the country. Orissa is at the fourth position, and Andhra Pradesh the fifth. Of the states in the top five positions, two were ruled by the Congress — Haryana …
The Centre has released an additional assistance of Rs 37.5 crore for the Buddha Nullah cleaning project. This is in addition to Rs 50 crore earlier provided by the Planning Commission and Rs 16 crore provided under the bio-remediation project for the cleaning of the nullah by the Environment Ministry. …
India’s import dependence on the energy front can be lowered to 21% in 2047 at its most optimal level from the current level of 31%, provided India takes the corrective steps towards pricing that supports energy efficiency and establishes the appropriate regulatory mechanism. This has been projected in the study …
Planning Commission is modelling energy scenario by putting all relevant numbers together into a calculator called the India Energy Security Scenarios (IESS) 2047. India needs to make large investments in its energy sector. So far, policy makers have been focused more on investments on the supply side, and not on …
Ahead of the polls, the cabinet is expected to consider several measures, including a proposal to raise the workdays under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) to 150 a year for scheduled tribes and forest dwellers and another to open 54 Kendriya Vidyalayas across the country in …
With Lok Sabha elections barely two months away, Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia has suggested hiking the overall tariff of gas-based power by 50-85 paise per unit to help production of 28 GW of electricity, which the consumers should treat as an “opportunity cost.” Ahluwalia believes that allowing …
The Planning Commission has started rating all the States based on six parameters to enable the States to improve the regulatory ecosystem for manufacturing, said Planning Commission Member Arun Maira on Thursday. Addressing the Madras Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) members, he said the first report will be ready …
AGARTALA, February 19: Tripura Finance Minister Badal Chaudhury on Wednesday presented a Rs 124.04 billion tax–free budget with a deficit of Rs 1.58 billion for the 2014–15 fiscal. No new taxes have been proposed and no increase of existing taxes projected in the budget, presented on the second day of …
The Government today said there is a noticeable decline in below poverty line population in the country between 2004 and 2012. As per poverty estimates released by the Planning Commission, the percentage of population below poverty line in urban areas has declined from 25.5 per cent in 2004—05 to 13.7 …
Says 10 tasks he set forth would take economy to high growth Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said the government’s greatest achievement was the lifting of 140 million people out of poverty in the last 10 years. At the post-budget press conference, Mr. Chidamabram explained that the 10 tasks his speech …
He said over 29,000 MW of power generation capacity has been added in the current financial year alone The government today said the country's installed power generation capacity has more than doubled to 2,34,600 MW in the past 10 years. "India's power generation capacity 10 years ago (2004) was 1,12,700 …
With eye on elections, no fresh taxes proposed; budgetary expenditure Rs 43,543 cr Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather today presented the sixth consecutive zero deficit Budget of the National Conference-Congress coalition government. The Rs 43,543-crore Budget presented by the Finance Minister on Thursday was the last Budget of the present …
New Delhi: Sikkim has become the only state in the country to achieve more than 100 per cent sanitation in rural and urban households, schools, sanitary complexes and Aanganwadi centres. All 6,10,577 inhabitants in Sikkim have latrines with high sanitation and hygiene standards. The Himalayan state has constructed 98,043 individual …
Pending irrigation projects - Question raised in Rajya Sabha, 10/02/2014. Minister Of Water Resources, Thaawar Chand Gehlot has stated that "the clearance of projects by Technical Advisory Committee of Ministry of Water Resources for consideration of the Planning Commission to accord Investment clearance is subject to furnishing by the State …
The detail of State-wise and year- wise grant ceilings (Allocations) of Planning Commission for AIBP during 11th Plan is given at this data. It referred in reply of Lok Sabha Starred Question No. 22 regarding Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme due for reply on 06.02.2014.
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) today approved five development projects involving Tk 640 crore, including a pharmaceuticals park project. The pharmaceuticals park project involving Tk 331.86 crore aims at creating some 25,000 direct employments in the country, BSS reports. The approval was given at its meeting …
