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 …
Devika Banerji / New Delhi April 20, 2010, 1:20 IST The empowered group of ministers (EGoM) will decide on the final poverty estimates to be used for the Food Security Bill, though the hurdle of building a consensus within states is yet to be overcome. The Plan panel on Saturday …
THE urban development ministry is readying an improved second phase of its flagship urban infrastructure scheme that will be targeted at states that agree to a stepped up urban reform agenda. The Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission or JNNURM has drawn flak for under utilisation of funds, but part …
Will Discuss Tendulkar Committee Figure On BPL Population New Delhi: The argument within the government over how many people should benefit from the proposed National Food Security Act just got more convoluted. The Planning Commission, in a meeting of its members on Saturday, will consider if the country can do …
New Delhi: A parliamentary panel on Thursday criticized railways for tardy implementation of rail projects during the 11th Plan period, highlighting that the department could lay only 513km of new tracks in the first two years of the period against the target of 2,000km. Parliamentary standing committee on railways has …
In a bid to push the National Food Security Act, the government on Thursday started a process to bring the states on board over the issue of identification of Below Poverty Line (BPL) families. The meeting of Core Group of State Chief Ministers and Central Ministers, chaired by Prime Minister …
OK With FSA Grain Outlay At 35kg New Delhi: With a ministerial panel asking Planning Commission to finalize the number of BPL families in the country who would be eligible for subsidized rations under the Food Security Act, the Plan panel is likely to settle for the figures put forward …
Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia today indicated his willingness to endorse the poverty data suggested by the Tendulkar Committee for the ambitious Food Security Bill. The states are likely to be unhappy if the below poverty line (BPL) population of nearly 38 per cent (as estimated by the …
Hope And Despair On Key Legislations New Delhi: The Planning Commission will carry out a detailed study of beneficiaries in the below poverty line (BPL) category eligible for the proposed national food security act while adding categories of urban poor to make the ambitious welfare programme as inclusive as possible. …
Even as the Congress denied that there was a disconnect between the party and the government on the Food Security Bill, party leader and Defence Minister A K Antony and Rural Development Minister C P Joshi stood out in pushing Congress
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: The Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on Food on Monday asked the Planning Commission to come up with poverty estimates (below poverty line population) which lie at the core of the formulation of the National Food Security Bill. The draft Bill, prepared by the Food Ministry …
Devika Banerji / New Delhi April 5, 2010, 0:40 IST It is time, says the Planning Commission in its mid-term Plan appraisal, to address the continued slippage in spending on health and edcuation. Though the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has constantly termed these two sectors as priorities, the spending …
Still waiting for second green revolution The Planning Commission has offered an objective assessment of the unsatisfactory situation as far as Indian agriculture is concerned in its mid-term appraisal of the 11th Five-Year Plan. The commission has done well to remind us that the farm sector is still subject to …
NEARLY half the houses constructed for the rural poor have been cornered by others in connivance with local politicians, the government has admitted. It is now making efforts to ensure that only the targeted segment is included in the Indira Awaas Yojana scheme.
New Delhi: Planning Commission has asked the ministry for women and child development (WCD) to consider a paradigm policy shift and focus on children between 0-2 years of age as against the current practice of addressing the nutritional concerns of children from 6 months to 5 years through ICDS programme. …
Concerned over the subsidy bill touching about Rs 1.90-lakh crore in 2010-11, the Planning Commission today pitched for halving it, which, if accepted, could push up the prices of fertilisers, cooking gas and foodgrain being sold through ration shops. At budgeted level, subsidy, a non-Plan expenditure, is likely to be …
THERE is unlikely to be any decision on Bt food crops till next year. Dr K Kasturirangan, who is discussing the controversial issue of biotechnology and food crops with the scientific community, will present a detailed review report in December this year. The decision to undertake a detailed study of …
