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 …
Praveen Kumar Singh New Delhi: Construction of a less than nine kilometre road through the Pench reserve forest has got held up for the last one year between the environment ministry and the road and highways ministry, with both only writing innumerable letters to each other. The delay in beginning …
Unimpressed by the progress made under the well-known KBK assistance plan, where over Rs 1,600 crore has been spent over the last decade, a concerned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked the Planning Commission to immediately carry out a fresh time-bound re-evaluation of the programme with special focus on the …
THE government will unveil a monitoring plan for infrastructure sectors next week, as it looks to improve the performance of ministries and address delays in implementation of projects. Planing Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia is expected to unveil the plan on Monday after a meeting with officials of key …
The Centre will constitute two high-level working groups on drinking water supply and sanitation to formulate strategic plans for the remaining two years of the ongoing 11th Five Year Plan and next two Plan periods. Officials said improved infrastructure in the rural areas will check migration from rural to urban …
Nistula Hebbar, SANJEEB MUKHERJEE New Delhi: The average Indian family size is shrinking fast. With increasing migration from villages to urban areas and across states, families are becoming more nuclear with just above four members. While the government is crunching the latest numbers, it has already started impacting food grain …
The Planning Commission has approved a Rs 18,260 crore Annual Plan outlay for the state for the ongoing fiscal. The Plan outlay includes Rs 11,100 crore from the state Budget, which is about 10 per cent more than last year
NEW DELHI: The Annual Plan for Haryana for 2010-11 was finalised at Rs. 18,260 crore at a meeting here on Tuesday between Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and State Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. Mr. Ahluwalia noted that Haryana ranked high in terms of per capita income which …
NEW DELHI, May 10: As projected by the State Government, the Planning Commission on Monday approved the Annual Plan Outlay for 2010-11 at Rs 2,500 crore. This was finalized at the meeting held between the Commission
The United Progressive Alliance government has drafted a showpiece bill to guarantee food for each and every poor person in India. But the government is yet to define who is poor. After objections from within and outside the government, the Empowered Group of Ministers (egom) that drafted the National Food …
Saubhadro Chatterji & Devika Banerji / New Delhi April 30, 2010, 1:02 IST The Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on the Food Security Bill has decided to meet once again before releasing the much-awaited bill for public feedback. According to a highly placed official in the food ministry, the EGoM …
The United Progressive Alliance government has drafted a showpiece bill to guarantee food for each and every poor person in India. But the government is yet to define who is poor. After objections from within and outside the government, the Empowered Group of Ministers (egom) that drafted the National Food …
RASHME SEHGAL NEW DELHI The Planning has slashed Commission has slashed funding for the programme to send a manned mission to the moon by 2015. The Human Space Flight Programme, earlier allocated Rs 238 crores, will now get only Rs 30 crores because the commission wants to allocate the rest …
VELLORE: Mass cultivation of bamboo and `malai vembu' (a variety of neem grown in the hills) could be taken up in Vellore district for bio-remediation of polluted soil, prevention of pollution from tannery and sewage effluents and to prevent global warming, according to G. Kumaravelu, full time member of the …
CHENNAI: Interlinking of rivers can affect the hydrologic cycle of the country and the Planning Commission is yet to come out with a report on the issue, according to its member, Dr Mihir Shah. Delivering the Founder
THE government on Tuesday said the Planning Commission will give revised estimates of families living below poverty line within a month for effective implementation of targeted PDS and other welfare schemes. Replying to a supplementary in the Lok Sabha during Question Hour, agriculture minister Sharad Pawar said,
Health interventions initiated by community-based organisations like self help groups and Panchayati raj can be scaled up effectively only if the government ensures that the most vulnerable communities get these services. Speaking at a national conference on
Amiti Sen & Subhash Narayan NEW DELHI THE lack of consensus between the states and Centre over the households that will qualify for subsidised food under the proposed food security act could further delay the United Progressive Alliance government
