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 …
The Planning Commission has devised an environment performance-linked mechanism for devolution of funds to States during the 12th Plan period. This was stated here by the eminent scientist and Member, Planning Commission, Dr K. Kasturirangan here on Thursday while delivering the inaugural address at the 81st annual session of the …
Social activists up in arms against proposed reforms; impact on procurement feared The Union Government's new move to give primacy in the revised draft of the National Food Security Bill, 2011, to controversial schemes like cash transfers and issuance of food coupons to identified public distribution system beneficiaries in lieu …
As against the North Eastern Council’s (NEC) 56 road projects proposals, the Planning Commission has granted ‘in principle’ approval to only 25 projects. In a Lok Sabha reply, Minister of State for Planning, Dr Ashwini Kumar said of the 25 approved projects, at least 15 have been sanctioned by 11th …
The country’s main planning body will overhaul of the system of village panchayat in the next Five-Year Plan period to improve its functioning and check siphoning of funds meant for social sector programmes. Over 250,000 panchayats or village councils in the country collectively handle about . 90,000 crore in social …
A six-member Central Government team will start its visit to Himachal tomorrow for assessing the damage to public property due to the monsoon this year. The team will first assess the damage to public property in Kangra district. The Kangra district authorities have submitted a report of damage worth Rs …
New Delhi: The debate about planning commission’s controversial poverty line could finally be buried. The UPA is now mulling doing away with the BPL-APL divide and providing subsidized grains to all except those who get automatically excluded in the ongoing socio-economic caste census. But on the flipside, it also wants …
NEW DELHI: The Minister of State for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) Paban Singh Ghatowar has said that the Planning Commission is involved in the finalisation of the annual plans of the States of Northeast. The size of each year’s plan is finalised based on the available resources of …
New Delhi The Cabinet will likely revise the ethanol price for the mandatory 5% blending with petrol later this month, renewable energy minister Farooq Abdullah said on Monday, as the sugar industry which produces the bio-fuel out of the by-products of the sweetener intensified protests against the protracted decision-making process. …
Manmohan to take up the issue with Pranab Mukherjee Chief Minister Oommen Chandy met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here on Monday with a delegation of eight of his Cabinet colleagues and sought over Rs.11,000 crore as a special financial package for the development of the State. Dr. Singh promised to …
New Delhi: Years after the Delhi government spoke about introducing a special tax in parts of the city to check the growing number of vehicles, congestion tax is back on the discussion board. The document submitted to the Planning Commission that outlined priorities for the 12th five-year plan (2012-17) mentioned …
India’s allocation for health is all set to double. The Planning Commission has decided to increase its spending on health to 2.5% of the GDP in the 12th Five Year Plan that starts next year. This is in accordance with the recommendation made by the High Level Expert Group on …
The Planning Commission on Friday cleared an investment of Rs 15 crore on an anti-erosion project along the Gangadhar river in Assam. The scheme, intended to protect two villages, Moisa and Belguri, in the vicinity of the Gangadhar river, is scheduled to be completed in the 2012-13 financial year, an …
NEW DELHI: If the Union Finance Ministry does not scuttle it as it had done in 2009, then Kochi Metro will get the Cabinet approval soon. The Urban Development Ministry has finalised the Cabinet note on the Kochi Metro and it is expected to be taken up for consideration in …
Hit by paucity of funds in the conservation of wildlife and management of wild habitats, the Environment Ministry has made a strong case for a four-time increase in Central outlay for the next Plan period. In its correspondence and recent meetings with the Planning Commission on the 12th Plan, the …
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Monday started the socio-economic and caste census-2011 to identify the Below-Poverty-Line families in seven out of 30 districts in the first phase. The fresh BPL survey in the state was taken up under the Central guideline to ascertain the real poorest-of-the-poor families as the Planning …
NEW DELHI, Nov 9 – The Planning Commission has accorded investment clearance to implement anti-erosion works to protect Brahmaputra dykes. This project is estimated to cost Rs 8.35 crore. The dyke works relate to 69 km (Uluberi) and 78 km (Borigaon). The proposed scheme envisages anti-erosion measures for a 9000-m …
NEW DELHI: The Planning Commission on Wednesday gave investment clearance for an anti-erosion project along the Brahmaputra river in Assam. The Rs 8.35 crore project will cover areas between Uluberi and Borigaon in Assam and is expected to be completed within the current financial year, an official release said. The …
New Delhi: The National Food Security Act shall be rolled out starting next financial year spread in phases running up to the parliamentary elections, in what could be an attempt to do the loan-waiver trick in 2014. The government has finalized the bill bringing it substantially closer to the National …
Funds for four more nullahs in phased manner JAMMU: In a step aimed at ensuring that flash floods don't cause devastation in future, the Planning Commission has cleared investment of ` 35.83 crore for flood protection and training works on one major nullah in Leh district of the Ladakh region. …
