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 …
1. Demonetisation + was a bold and decisive strike in a series of measures to arrive at a new normal of bigger, cleaner and real GDP. 2. Demonetisation and GST + will have an epoch making impact. 3. For many decades tax evasion was way of life for many. Post …
अरुण जेटली ने नोटबंदी के बाद बुधवार को पहला बजट पेश किया। इसे किसान, रूरल डेवलपमेंट, यूथ्स, गरीबों के लिए मकान और डिजिटल इकोनॉमी जैसे 10 हिस्सों में बांटा गया है। सरकार ने आम आदमी के लिए इनकम टैक्स में राहत देते हुए 3 लाख रुपए तक की इनकम को …
The 2017 Union Budget was broadly focused on 10 issues — farming sector, rural population, youth, poor and health care for the underprivileged, infrastructure, financial sector for stronger institutions, speedy accountability, public services, prudent fiscal management and tax administration for the honest.
Here are the highlights of the Economic Survey 2017 The Economic Survey 2017, tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, projected that the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) will grow by 6.75 per cent to 7.5 per cent in in 2017-18. Here are 12 highlights of the Economic Survey 2017: * Demonetisation …
NEW DELHI: India should play a proactive role in promoting open global markets to fill vacuum in the international leadership, The Economic Survey today said. At a time of a possible resurgence of protectionist pressures and India's need for open markets abroad to underpin rapid economic growth domestically, it is …
Under the current tax regime, small hydro projects up to 25 MW are treated as renewable energy whereby they are exempted from excise duty and pay value added tax of 0-5 per cent and a central sales tax of 2 per cent. A Group of Secretaries wants Prime Minister Narendra …
NEW DELHI: Noting that India's spend on healthcare is much lower than some fellow BRICS and SAARC nations, a health body has asked the Centre to bolster investments in health, particularly in family planning, in the upcoming budget. Insisting that increasing the budget allocation for health and family planning is …
Mongolia will continue to battle its severe air pollution even as funds to clean up Ulaanbaatar’s toxic atmosphere have been diverted to fill a widening budget gap, according to the country’s environmental chief. “Every year 30 billion tugrik ($12 million) is collected from car owners, coal users and others who …
In a major decision to deal with climate change which is threatening to assume worrying proportions, the Uttarakhand government has decided to deploy one percent of the total budget of each of its 66 department towards climate change adaptation measures . State council on climate change has given the go-ahead …
Even as global carbon emissions remained stable last year, India's emissions rose 5.2 percent in 2015. While global carbon emission saw “almost no growth” last year, India’s emission grew by 5.2 per cent in 2015, says a study. Global carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels are projected to rise only …
MYSURU: The Yuva Dasara subcommittee has decided to conduct Yuva Sambhrama and Yuva Dasara with water conservation as the theme, in the backdrop of scanty rainfall received this year. Speaking to reporters here on Saturday at Varthabhavan, deputy special officer of Yuva Dasara subcommittee SP Ravi D Channanannavar, said, "As …
RAIPUR: Chief minister Raman Singh conferred degrees on students and lauded them for taking up research and specialized course in agriculture while emphasizing on need to promote organic farming. He was speaking at the 8th convocation ceremony of Indira Gandhi Agricultural University where Union agriculture minister Radhamohan Singh was the …
India will take up the issue of international labour mobility, particularly of professional workers, besides raising the issue of climate change at the G20 forum, said NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Arvind Panagariya on Monday. “We are also pushing the issue of climate change. I would also like to emphasise on the …
The National Green Tribunal on Tuesday directed the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), the implementing wing for rejuvenation of the river, to apprise it of the expenditure details of the Rs.20,000 crore budget granted to it for cleaning and protection of the Ganga. A Bench headed by NGT chairman …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Budget Utilisation for Clean Ganga Mission, 21/07/2016. As on 30th June 2016, 97 projects has been sanctioned under Namami Gange programme (including the existing projects sanctioned under NGRBA programme) in 53 towns at an estimated project cost of Rs 8588.21 Crore. Out of these …
The per capita expenditure on health in India in 2012 was 58 US dollars as against 88 and $ 108 in other developing countries like Sri Lanka and Indonesia respectively. "As per World Health Statistics 2015 brought out by World Health Organisation (WHO), the per capita total expenditure on health …
Centre jacks up its share for the nationalised project. Hyderabad: There is good news for fund-starved AP. The Central government will release Rs 3,000 crore for the Polavaram irrigation project. This became possible through a loan that the Centre has taken from Nabard. The Union finance ministry has asked the …
A recent study undertaken by the Budget Analysis Rajasthan Centre (BARC) in collaboration with NGOs Prayas and Jan Swasthya Abhiyan has brought to fore that the budgetary allocation for health in Rajasthan is between 4.5% and 6.8% of the total budget. Not only is this woefully inadequate, what money is …
Nagpur: While it is the responsibility of a municipal corporation to publish the city Environment Status Report (ESR) every year before July 31, Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) will miss the deadline for the second consecutive year. This year too, NMC has not even initiated the process to study Nagpur city's …
According to the report, every year, at least 6,688 people die due to tuberculosis and 1,18,093 suffer from diarrhoea. Dengue cases have gone up eight times and cholera cases seven times in the past five years, a white paper released by the Praja Foundation on Thursday revealed. It further shows …
