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 was passed by voice vote, with the opposition Congress walking out of the House due to insufficient discussion. The bill was introduced …
Jayanthi Natarajan, it would appear, has done immense damage to the economy and to her own party's electoral prospects. She had, it has been reported, been sitting on hundreds of files for no plausible reason, delaying their clearance for months on end, some of them for years. This amounted to …
The Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday clashed over a remark by BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi that under , the environment ministry charged a "tax" to clear files. The first to lead the attack on Modi was Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh. "Modi's comment on Jayanthi …
The consistent official methodology and Pakistan Living Standards Measurement (PLSM) Survey data have registered a decline in poverty headcount from 34.5% to 12.4 % in ten years. However, a Technical Group on Poverty has been set-up by Ministry of Planning, Development and Reforms to review official methodology for poverty estimation …
To enforce new Land Acquisition Act in letter and spirit Against the backdrop of the new Land Acquisition Act coming into operation from January 1, the Legal Department, through a circular to the Chief Secretary and other heads of departments, asked them to put land acquisition proceedings on hold and …
President Mahinda Rajapaksa has allocated a colossal amount of funds in the history of the country for the development of rural road network in 2014, said Anuradhapura district MP Shehan Semasinghe. He was addressing a meeting held to mark the donation of a set of water tanks to Galapitagala Supirithodaya …
The Punjab government on Wednesday approved two development schemes with an estimated cost of Rs 1028.349 million. These schemes were approved in the 24th meeting of Provincial Development working Party of current fiscal year 2013-14 presided over by the Punjab Planning and Development Board Chairman, Muhammad Irfan Elahi, says P&D; …
Will Sunderbans, the world's largest tiger habitat, survive a century later? Will millions living in the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna basin be forced to migrate? Will water that is now available in abundance in this belt become a scarce commodity? Will agricultural productivity in the catchment area decline alarmingly as salinity increases? Will …
Even as hopes rise of a civil nuclear accord with Japan following confirmation that its Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be the chief guest at Republic Day celebrations here, an influential lawmaker from Tokyo indicated on Monday that the path ahead was still not smooth and India should make concessions …
The Punjab government approved on Wednesday three development schemes with an estimated cost of Rs2.04 billion. These schemes were approved in the 23rd meeting of the Provincial Development Working Party of the current fiscal year 2013-14 presided over by Planning and Development Board Chairman Irfan Elahi, says a handout issued …
The Punjab government approved 103 development schemes of various sectors during its last six months from July to December 31, 2013 of the current fiscal year 2013-14 with an estimated cost of Rs 163,876.727 million. The net size of development budget in Punjab province is Rs 240 billion. The 22 …
Renewable energy financing in emerging economies faces particularly daunting challenges, but there are creative policy solutions that could potentially reduce the cost of renewable energy support by as much as 30%. In this series, look at two potential solutions: Reduce the cost of using debt sourced from the developed world: …
Memorandum to the Prime Minister of India from Climate Parliament MPs on submitting the report ‘RE‐Energising India: Policy, Regulatory and Financial Initiatives to Augment Renewable Energy Deployment in India’.
Climate Parliament is an international network of members of parliaments working to promote renewable energy to combat climate change. Through the project 'Parliamentarians' actions for achieving renewable energy targets of the 12th FYP to promote Indian government's low-carbon inclusive growth agenda', Climate Parliament seeks to encourage Government actions for stepping …
The Goal of the program is to promote the use of Renewable Energy in Urban Areas by providing support to the Municipal Corporations for preparation and implementation of a Road Map to develop their cities as Solar Cities. The objectives of the programme are: to enable/empower Urban Local Governments to …
The Centre for Science and Environment on Friday said all clearances - environment, forests, wildlife and coastal - should be consolidated to avoid delays in decision-making. Sunita Narain, CSE’s Director-General, said, “We are very worried about the tone and tenor of the debate on green clearances. It is clear that …
The Asian Development Ban (ADB) approved $43billion in 2011-12 for creation and expansion of economic opportunities in the region. According to Asian Development Bank sustainability report, investing in Asia and the pacific’s future it said that the bank approved amount was ten percent higher than previous two years. During the …
The government has so far released Rs 155.996 billion under its Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) for various projects against the total allocations of Rs 540 billion for the fiscal year 2013-14. According to latest data of Ministry of Planning and Development, out of these allocations, Rs 25,862 million have …
Maharashtra has lost a staggering 2,116 sq km of forest area or an equivalent of three Tadoba forest reserves in the span of two decades, reveals a report tracking climate change in India released recently by the ministry of statistics and programme implementation. The state has also gained 5,030 sq …
The Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development has launched the second phase of the Local Governance and Community Development Programme (LGCDP) to reform governance restructures, improve service delivery and implement government projects at the local level. The ministry on Monday said the programme will be implemented in collaboration with …
The government has so far released Rs. 155.996 billion under its Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) for various projects against the total allocations of Rs. 540 billion for the fiscal year 2013-14. According to latest data of Ministry of Planning and Development, out of these allocations, Rs. 25,862 million have …
