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 once again raised doubts over achieving the targeted power capacity addition of over 78,000 Mw planned in the current Five-Year Plan period (2007-2012).
The Planning Commission today approved an annual plan outlay of Rs 2,700 crore for Himachal Pradesh for 2009-10. The outlay, which include a special Plan assistance of Rs 500 crore for projects of importance to the state, was fixed at a meeting between the Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh …
Into its last days, the UPA Government finally extended the Transport Subsidy Scheme 1971, albeit temporarily, here today. The proposal for extension of the scheme has been gathering dust for the last couple of years over sharp differences between the Planning Commission and the Union Finance Ministry. Announcing the decision …
New Delhi: The Planning Commission has shown the green light to the Rs 12,400-crore manned space mission of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scheduled for launch by 2015.
PRADUMAN CHOUBEY Dhanbad, Feb. 20: For Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL) workers associated with the Moonidih Project, living in over 300 quarters of the company, soon there will be light. Planning Commission member Kirti S. Parikh on Friday inaugurated the coal bed methane (CBM) generating unit at the Moonidih Colliery …
Madhya Pradesh not only is ahead of other states in implementing Jawaharlal National Urban Renewal Mission's schemes, but it has also gone ahead in national average. Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia has commended Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, writing a letter in this connection and has accepted that …
Even as the flagship National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) scheme continues to face problems at the implementation level, Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, ignoring suggestions by Planning Commission Deputy Chairperson Montek Singh Ahluwalia and other economists, has refused to bring any major change in the scheme. After the …
The government is re-considering the proposal to include rural electrification and hydro power projects under the priority sector lending target of banks. The proposal, earlier approved by a sub-committee of the group of ministers (GoM) on power sector-related financial issues, was turned down by the finance ministry on technical grounds. …
Using sample data from the 62nd round of the National Sample Survey, this paper estimates the headcount ratio of poverty for 2005-06. This estimate, based on the methodology recommended by the 1993 Planning Commission expert group, is compared with the poverty ratio for 2004-05 as derived from the 61st round …
floods Kosi breach yet to be plugged The breach in the Kosi embankment that caused the devastating flood in Bihar may not be plugged before March 2009. The deadline for completion of the work was in November, but the state government extended it by four months. Though the government did …
In pursuance of the commitment made by the Prime Minister in the 54th meeting of the National Development Council (NDC), an Expert Group was constituted in Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) to examine the schemes of statutory clearances for industrial and infrastructure projects and suggest specific steps for removal of …
nuclear energy Private players? Private players may soon be allowed entry into nuclear energy production. Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said as much minutes before he went in to deliberate on the draft Integrated Energy Policy with the plan panel. The law will, however, have to be amended …
BY MUKESH RANJAN NEW DELHI Making it clear that the time is still not ripe for downward revision of the retail prices of transportation fuel and cooking gas, the Planning Commission has communicated to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that despite the sharp fall in the global crude oil prices, it …
C. Gouridasan Nair THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The government is planning to amend the Kerala Groundwater Act 2002 to put curbs on indiscriminate use of groundwater. According to highly placed sources, the expert committee constituted to study and report on the changes necessary in the Kerala Groundwater Act is expected to submit its …
Days after External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee warned the Government its liability on account of fertilizer subsidy this year might exceed the defence budget unless it gets its
NREGP SCAN Sreelatha Menon / New Delhi September 25, 2008, 0:26 IST It is now more or less universally acknowledged that there is substantial pilferage from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGP). But there is some good news for the Manmohan Singh government which launched the programme with much …
