This report summarizes the findings of a review aimed at understanding emerging approaches to energy subsidy reform, discerning trends, and identifying major strands of thinking and research in the field, as reflected in major policy and academic journals relevant to the subject. The review was initiated in early 2020 as …
Hyderabad: Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief N Chandrababu Naidu has promised to give the same push to agiculture that he had given the IT sector in his earlier stint as Andhra Pradesh chief minister.
EU subsidy may hurt the Indian dairy industry to shield its dairy industry from the pinch of global economic meltdown, the European Commission has decided to reinstate export subsidies on dairy products, which it suspended in 2007. The move may adversely impact India
ERODE: The Federation of All Trade Associations of Erode District, Erode, has urged the Union and State Governments to provide more incentive to encourage windmill installation. Subsidy In a release, the trade body says the Government has stopped the subsidy it gave to install windmills. It should come forward to …
Traditional approaches to supplying food are an inefficient 'band aid', says Pedro A. Sanchez. New evidence shows that helping farmers to help themselves is more effective and would be six times cheaper.
A GROUP of ministers on Thursday agreed in principle to lift the two-year old ban on exports of wheat and wheat products after general elections end in May. The decision was taken by an empowered group of ministers (EGoM) headed by external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee, government officials said. The …
AT A time when Australian commodity exports are collapsing under the impact of the global recession, India has provided some relief by opening up its market for branded dairy products from Down Under. With this, some of the big branded cheese products such as Bega and King Island will be …
After an exhaustive consultative process initiated in July 2008, the Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission (TNERC) on 20 March 2009, announced a comprehensive order on wind energy tariff to be applicable from 19 September 2008.
Bowing to pressure from the European Biodiesel Board (EBB), the EU on 13 March imposed temporary anti-dumping and countervailing duties - ranging from -26 to -41 per 100 kilogrammes - on imports of US biodiesel. The temporary duties may be made permanent after six months, in which case they could …
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 …
THE development of backward areas has been taken up as a top priority by the present Government. The implementation of the Special Industrial packages for the North Eastern Region, Sikkim, J & K, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh were speeded up. Consequently, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh saw the establishment of 4,622 …
RETAIL prices of diesel may go down further by Rs 2 soon as the government looks to hike its goodwill quotient among voters before the code of conduct kicks in for the general elections slated for April-May. A cut in diesel prices could bring down prices of essential commodities such …
Demand market rate for power after agreeing to a lower rate SUGAR cooperatives of Maharashtra that have set up power plants that use sugarcane waste as fuel, are trying to wriggle out of their commitment to supply power at lower rates to the state-owned power distribution company, Mahara- shtra State …
Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Punjab Parkash Singh Badal has sanctioned a corpus fund of Rs 5 crore from the rural development fund (RDF) for operating a freight subsidy of Rs 400 per tonne for marketing of potatoes within India and Rs 1,500 per tonne for export. This was disclosed today …
Markfed has offered Rs 250 per tonne as freight subsidy to potato farmers across the state for inter-state movement of the crop and Rs 1,000 per tonne as freight subsidy for exports. Financial Commissioner (Cooperation) BC Gupta said today that the department had written to the financial commissioner development for …
This paper analyses the effects of access to Rural Public Works (RPW) and the Public Distribution System (PDS), a public food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing, on the large household datasets constructed with National Sample Survey (NSS) data, 50th round in 1993-1994 and 61st …
Austria is considered a European leader in the use of solid biomass for heat and power generation. But a new environmental policy could jeopardize the success of the past few years.
This paper analyses the effects of access to Rural Public Works (RPW) and the Public Distribution System (PDS), a public food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India. This paper analyses the effects of access to Rural Public Works (RPW) and the Public Distribution System (PDS), a …
