The Bikaner Development Authority Bill, 2025
<p>The Bikaner Development Authority Bill, 2025, passed by the Rajasthan Assembly, aims to establish a Bikaner Development Authority to regulate development activities in the Bikaner district. The bill
Planning
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Promising water
NDA's promise on water is nothing more than words. And at best it means a lot of valuable taxpayer money literally thrown down the drain
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Going Dutch
Environmental planning and policy making in the 21st century is going to get more complex. But at least the Dutch are raising a lot of good questions
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In nature s backyard
New eco friendly market towns can stop downhill migration
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Weighing the cost
Goa will become the first state in the country to adopt national resource accounting
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Greening a state
Himachal Pradesh chief minister has broken all bureaucratic shackles and initiated eco friendly programmes in the state
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Eco friendly economy
THE recently concluded International Conference on Civil Engineering for Sustainable Development, at the University of Roorkee in Uttar Pradesh, furs recommended developing the nation's economy in an
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Employment schemes fail to ease rural poverty
The government's employment generation schemes, laudable though they may be, have yet to achieve their goals. Not involving intended beneficiaries is cited as a major reason for their failure.
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The statistician who "planned" India
P C Mahalanobis can rightly be called the father of Indian statistics. Today, in the year of his birth centenary, he is remembered not only as the man who gave the use of figures a, now approach in national planning, but also as the mastermind beh
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Mid term appraisal for Eleventh Five Year Plan 2007-2012
<p>The Eleventh Plan (2007-08 to 2011-12) sought to build on the gains achieved in the Tenth Plan and shift the economy to a path offaster and more inclusive growth.