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 …
Power producers have sought more representation of the industry in the committee set up by the government to assess the impact of Uttarakhand’s two dozen hydropower projects on the ecology of the hill state that witnessed devastating flash floods in June. The Association of Power Producers (APP) and Indian National …
New Delhi : Dogged by the unceasing sluggish progress in coal mining, the Centre has formed a jumbo panel of officials from associated ministries, including environment and forests as well as of coal-producing states to ensure “timely and early completion of procedures” at all levels. The Central Coordination Committee, formed …
The Planning Commission has convened a high-level meeting of the ministries concerned on Thursday to discuss the issues related to mining, including the ban on such activities in some states, to boost the output. A high-level meeting of the ministries concerned is scheduled on November 7 to discuss the issues …
The Planning Commission of Pakistan has so far released Rs.98.215 billion under its Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) for various projects against the total allocations of Rs.540 billion for the fiscal year 2013-14. According to latest data of Planning Commission of Pakistan, out of these allocations, Rs.19863 million have been …
The Planning Commission has convened a meeting of ministries concerned next month to discuss the issues related to mining, including the ban on such activities in some states. "We have called a high-level meeting of the ministries concerned next month to discuss the issues related to mining sector, particularly the …
Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki said that his government is committed to increase the State’s forest cover by another 90 per cent by controlling shifting cultivation, arresting forest fires and over–grazing, and curbing illegal removal of forest produce, while at the same time undertaking plantation through TFC, CAMPA, SFDA, …
Churu, a town in the Thar desert populated by 1.2 lakh people, has come a long way in the last three years. Over 40 per cent of households in the town — rated as India’s dirtiest town by the Planning Commission — were forced to defecate in the open due …
Notwithstanding claims of the Punjab Government and the state Pollution Control Board (PPCB) that emphasis is being laid on ensuring clean and green environment in the state, the practice of discharging domestic waste and untreated industrial effluents into drains, rivulets and water channels continues unabated in Jalandhar and Kapurthala. The …
The Act as been enacted in Haryana, Himachal, Rajasthan, Uttaranchal, Mizoram and Delhi The Centre will review preparations for implementation of the National Food security Act with the States and UTs in a meeting here on Tuesday. The Act which got accent of President Pranab Mukherjee on September, 12 after …
Policy on climate change should highlight economic and security cost of missed targets India is doing poorly on the energy front in a way which is not commonly realised. The popular narrative is that it is misleading to look at the energy consumption and emissions of a country without taking …
Two Bad Years Impacted Overall Growth The Green Revolution is said to have revolutionized agriculture in India. However, government data shows more or less the same rate of growth of yields for various crops from 1951 to about 1990, suggesting that the ‘revolution’ might not have been as momentous as …
The S R Hashim Committee report on urban poor has been put into cold storage by the UPA government. The report, submitted in December 2012, set out the criteria for identifying the poor living in urban areas for various government schemes, especially the National Food Security Act, 2013. While the …
Jayalalithaa asks PM's intervention to release Rs 1,500 cr from NCEF to support projects In its bid to address lack of proper wind power evacuation infrastructure in the state, the Tamil Nadu government plans to take up projects with a total cost of Rs 5,998 crore. However, to take this …
The project is to be developed by Mahaguj Collieries in Angul district at an estimated cost of Rs 20,000 cr With the row over availing free power from thermal power plants and plants based on coal washery rejects yet to be resolved, the Odisha government has decided to put on …
Despite all the hype and hoopla over the free medicine scheme of the state government, the poor standards of health along with education and infrastructure have forced the Planning Commission to reaffirm Rajasthan's position among 'BIMARU' states, a term coined for the most backward regions in the country. According to …
Government assures members that it won’t tinker with federal structure of governance The Rajya Sabha on Monday approved by voice vote the National Food Security Bill after the government assured members that it had no intention of tinkering with the federal structure of governance through the legislation. Members were informed …
The latest estimates of the Planning Commission states the decline in the number of poor in Sikkim from 1,70,000 to 51,000 in the seven year period between 2004-05 to 2011-12. These estimates have emerged from the latest NSS Household Consumer Expenditure Survey for 2011-12 (NSS 68th round) and are based …
Rajasthan is likely to get assistance from the National Clean Energy Fund for implementation of the solar pump scheme under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission. The Planning Commission has praised the progress made by the scheme in a short duration in the State. Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has announced …
The Planning Commission (PC) is set to approve the costly 100-megawatt furnace oil-based power station at Chapainawabganj, which involves hard-term US$109 million loan from a foreign bank, officials said Monday. The electricity production cost of the plant will be Tk 21.70 per kilowatt hour (kwh), they said. The Project Evaluation …
Will study the system, figure out innovative ways to distribute food subsidy As the government gets ready to implement the ambitious National Food Security Ordinance, India’s first-ever independent evaluation office has started evaluating the targeted public distribution system to find innovative ways to distribute the food subsidy. “We have to …
