The Union Budget 2023-24 was presented against the backdrop of some critical geopolitical developments and was the last full budget before the next general elections. Signicantly, 2023 is also the year in which India became the most populated country in the planet and assumed G20 presidency. The Budget served as …
NEW DELHI: The Economic Survey released on Monday suggested that the Indian economy was in the pink of health,+ but was cautious about risk arising from persistent high crude oil prices or a sharp correction in stock markets over the medium term and from climate change over the long run. …
Budget 2018: The expectations of the renewable energy industry from the Budget includes extra capital allocation, discounts on taxes and duties, mechanism for timely payment from discoms and a support system for start-ups. Budget 2018: The expectations of the renewable energy industry from the Budget includes extra capital allocation, discounts …
Budget 2018: Economic Survey 2018 of India will be presented in Parliament today. This is the first economic survey after the Goods and Services Tax (GST) was implemented last year. Notably, the Modi government's crucial budget 2018 will be presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on February 1. Economic Survey …
Process under way to increase rates charged by civic-run hospitals. WITH MUMBAI a global hotspot for tuberculosis, the upcoming Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) budget is slated to make substantial allocations for prevention and early cure of the disease through procuring prevention kits and ration for all TB patients. The monthly …
India added 11.31 GW of grid-connected power-generation capacity from renewables during 2016-17 against a target of 16.66 GW, which means it fell 32% short of target In line with its climate-change commitments and domestic pollution concerns, India has one of the world’s largest programmes to expand renewables–a tripling of capacity …
NEW DELHI: The Centre has said that Rs 1,000 crore will be earmarked in the coming Budget to tackle the problem of stubble burning, among other things, in Delhi's neighbouring states in an effort to make the air in the capital more breathable and relieve it from the smog that …
Move in sync with govt’s intent to mitigate rural distress, boost consumption Finance minister Arun Jaitley may announce agricultural credit target of Rs 12 lakh crore for 2018-19, up 20% from the level for the current year, as he lends focus to addressing rural distress in the coming Budget. While …
MANGALURU: As finance minister Arun Jaitley is busy giving final touches to the Union Budget for 2018-19, an ASSOCHAM-EY joint paper has said that nearly 4% of India's GDP is estimated to have been lost due to malnutrition and certainly women and children deserve a better deal in expenditure outlay, …
The health budget is expected to rise by 11 per cent to $8.2 billion, according to a report. New Delhi: India is poised to raise its public health spending by 11 percent in the annual budget next month, after rejecting Health Minister J.P. Nadda's demand for a much bigger increase …
Abuja/Lagos — The Federal Government has budgeted only N20, 226, 000 for Ogoni land clean up support in 2018 appropriation bill, while it earmarked N250 million for attendance of international bilateral/multilateral meetings. A total of N27, 369, 935, 852 is allocated to the Federal Ministry of Environment, and out of …
Delhi Pollution Control Committee's (DPCC) findings that around 25% of samples lifted from sewage treatment plants and central effluent treatment plants had failed test standards have turned the focus on the inability of authorities to ensure action and compliance. The first day of the outcome budget review for the second …
The government needs to spend 3.8 per cent of the GDP on health to meet the goal of universal health coverage (UHC). New data suggests India needs to do much more than it’s doing to meet UHC targets as promised under the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The National Health Policy-2017, …
Gap between TB incidence and notifications is very large in India; rising numbers probably indicate better reporting rather than higher incidence of disease After years of being criticised for not doing enough on tuberculosis, India got a pat on the back this week from the World Health Organisation for increasing …
Domestic resources accounted for 74% of the $525 million that was spent in India last year India’s domestic budget for fighting tuberculosis showed a dramatic jump from about ₹700 crore in 2015 to ₹2,500 crore last year, according to a report from the World Health Organisation (WHO). Typically most of …
The World Bank has set aside 150 million U.S. dollars as budget support to Zambia's agriculture sector, a senior government official said on Monday. Ministry of Finance Permanent Secretary Mukuli Chikuba said the funds will be provided over a three-year period, adding that the government has requested the World Bank …
In June Christiana Figueres, the UN’s former climate chief who helped broker the Paris agreement in 2015, warned that the world has “three years to safeguard our climate”. It was a hyperbolic claim, even then. New research makes it seem even more of one today. An analysis published in Nature …
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi has presented a four-stage long-term solution for management of landfill sites to Delhi government - starting with flattening the mounds to extracting leachate and gas, to the final stage of capping them aesthetically. After the Ghazipur sanitary landfill site accident, in which two people died …
Recognising the national budget as the nance system through which most public actions are funded, this paper discusses how climate change-related public expenditures can be considered under the Union Budget. There are various channels of funding for climate change actions, but it is public funding through the Union Budget, with …
The Union Health Ministry has released an ambitious National Health Policy to deal with problems that hinder affordable healthcare for citizens. DNA does a 'full-body check-up'. Given India's need for good affordable healthcare, the Modi government has so far not been able to achieve the lofty reforms it has promised. …
Rabat – Moroccan Minister of Agriculture Aziz Akhannouch inaugurated and supervised the developments of the realization of agricultural projects, with a total budget of MAD 1.8 billion, in Tinghir on Monday. Akhhanouch Launches MAD 2 Billion Agricultural Projects in Central Morocco The projects, 39 in total, are part of Morocco’s …
