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 …
In the wake of consistent rise of rate of inflation during the first quarter of calendar year 2007 and responding to the concerns expressed at various fora and by various opinions including by Parliamentary Standing Committee of the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution in its 17th Report, …
Is there a case for continuing with planning and persisting with practices that on the face of it seem to be irrelevant? This article draws attention to the need to define the role of planning and the Planning Commission in the economy post-liberalisation with greater clarity and to reform the …
In its mid-term appraisal of the 10th Five-Year Plan, the Planning Commission realised that the National Mineral Policy (nmp) adopted in 1993 "for encouraging the flow of private investment in exploration and mining', in the words of a panel it later set up, had not lived up to its billing. …
The idea of defining poverty in terms of a poverty line was first introduced during the India Labour Conference in 1957. A working group under the Planning Commission then stipulated a poverty line of Rs 20 per person per month. In 1979, a Planning Commission task force fixed a poverty …
This document contains the Report of the working group on new and renewable energy for XITH five year plan (2007-12) . The 5 Programmes proposed for 11th plan are: (i) Grid-Interactive and Distributed Renewable Power; (ii) Renewable Energy for Rural Applications; (iii) Renewable Energy for Urban, Industrial & Commercial Applications; …
The National Food for Work Programme (NFFWP), launched in 2004, identified 50 backward districts, where employment guarantee scheme was to get started. The 150 districts were identified by the Planning Commission on the basis of three criteria, Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST) population, agricultural productivity per worker, and agricultural wage rate …
This report outlines the financing plan for upgrading and augmenting the airport infrastructure in India. It responds to the direction of the Committee on Infrastructure, chaired by the Prime Minister, to evolve a plan for creating world-class airport infrastructure.
Four decades of misery and scores of suicides later, Vidarbha had a high-profile visitor who wanted to provide the healing touch. Yet, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Rs.3,750-crore package failed to soothe farmers from eastern Maharashtra, who are bitter about being discriminated against. Public anger has come to a boil against …
When cleared by the Planning Commission in 1988, ssp was to cost Rs 6,406 crore. By 2000, delays spiralled the cost to Rs 9,000 crore. Gujarat’s share of the cost jumped from Rs 4,904 crore to Rs 6,800 crore. The full cost, including the canals and interest payments will be …
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Water Resources expressed its annoyance over the various schemes of the Union ministry of water resources (mowr) in its fourth report tabled in Parliament on December 7, 2005. On the Planning Commission reducing the plan allocation of Rs 946.21 crore by Rs 25.21 crore, the …
Faced with a barrage of criticism from the Opposition that it has failed to stop Andhra Pradesh from going ahead with the construction of "unauthorised" irrigation projects in the Krishna and Godavari river basins, the Karnataka government is yet to decide which of the two options it must pursue: approach …
The new policy initiatives of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests aim at improving the forest cover in such a way as to benefit all the stakeholders - the forest departments, local communities and investors. The world over sustainable forest management has become a buzz word, thanks to the …
Fuel price reform is inevitable and necessary, but clean fuel and public transport agenda for health protection must not be derailed Photo: Chaitanya Chandan The UPA government has finally allowed oil marketing companies to raise diesel prices in small amounts from time to time until the subsidy is fully pruned. …
Not raising diesel prices would harm economy much more' The government has finally taken the bold step to hike diesel prices as well as limit subsidy on cooking gas. This is the highest ever diesel price hike that makes the fuel dearer by Rs 5 without value added tax. At …
