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 …
Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh has huge potential in developing many hydro-power projects which will completely change the economic face of the State, its Industry Minister Tapang Taloh said. “If all the hydro-power potentials of the State were tapped, Arunachal Pradesh will be one of the richest States in the country,” Taloh …
Grant-in-Aid will be 15.83 percent in Madhya Pradesh’s budget for year 2012-13. Besides, the funds received as share of Central taxes has been reduced this year by Rs. 567 crore. Madhya Pradesh’s budget for year 2012-13 is of Rs. 80 thousand 30 crore 98 lakh. It will include Rs. 12 …
All countries have to take on their fair share of responsibility to ensure sustainable development but not at the cost of economic growth, rural development minister Jairam Ramesh told Finnish parliamentarians. The challenge was to find economic drivers that would address aspirations of higher standard of living, while promoting sustainability. …
The Planning Commission on Tuesday approved a 16 per cent hike in the central plan outlay to West Bengal to arrive at a figure of Rs 25,910 crore for this fiscal, which was what chief minister Mamata Banerjee is said to have asked for, although the Centre is still non-committal …
The annual Plan outlay for West Bengal for the year 2012-13 has been finalised at Rs. 25,910 crore, a 16 per cent hike from the Plan outlay of 2011-12, which was pegged at Rs 22,214 crore. The Plan outlay was decided at a meeting here today between Planning Commission deputy …
A Bill to regulate and promote the construction, sale, management and transfer of flats on the ownership basis in the State of Maharashtra and to establish the Housing Regulatory Authority and Housing Appellate Tribunal and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
The name may have stuck, but it’s the Chhattisgarh part of the densely forested Naxal hotbed that is really ‘Abujhmaad’. As one drives on to Maharashtra, the first half of that name — abujh or “unknown” — falls by the wayside, thanks to policies pursued by successive governments in this …
Chandigarh: The Punjab Government has given the nod to a Central Government scheme to give free cycles to girl students belonging to minority communities. The Centre had sought the views of the state in this regard. Sources said in the first phase, free cycles would be given this year to …
India is expected to grow at 6.1% in calendar year (CY) 2012, similar to the pace recorded in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to the Ernst & Young’s quarterly Rapid Growth Markets Forecast (RGMF). Growth should be picking up in H2, 2012, provided the global economy does not experience …
JAMMU: Underscoring the significance of agriculture in socio-economic emancification of the society, the Minister for Finance and Ladakh Affairs, Abdul Rahim Rather today said that agriculture in the state has been made almost tax free sector. Speaking at a function organized by the Jammu and Kashmir State Advisory Board for …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government had to lose Central assistance of ` 190.72 crore during 2005 to 2011 because of low spending of available scheme funds by the implementing agencies. According to the latest CAG report, scrutiny of records of seven district rural development agencies (DRDAs), Balasore, Cuttack, Ganjam, Gajapati, Nuapada, …
The alarming financial health of the State was revealed in the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report tabled in the Assembly on Friday which said that in five years, the State’s fiscal liabilities increased by 46.17 per cents. According to CAG report, the fiscal liabilities of the State increased from …
The India Human Development Report 2011 undertakes a disaggregated analysis of a large set of indicators and is unhesitating in its criticism of our failures in human development outcomes even while recognising that there is empirical evidence of achievement in many dimensions. The main fi ndings of the report point …
The Budget provides proof of the United Progressive Alliance government having forgotten the importance of its own “flagship schemes”. BUDGET 2012-13 provides conclusive proof that the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has lost its way. It has managed the remarkable feat of upsetting almost everyone and making no one happy. …
An 8-km stretch of road is being built on pilot basis All weather roads being laid under the Centrally-sponsored Prime Minister's Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) has come as a boon to villages that were hitherto deprived of road connectivity in Bellary district. In the last decade, around 614-km stretch of …
A village in Sirsa along Haryana’s dusty borders with Rajasthan has redefined what ‘public-private partnership’ can mean in terms of girls’ education and social development. Kaluana village gave shape to its dream of promoting education for its women by utilising a combined prize money of Rs 25 lakh that it …
Bihar, that “model of growth” its government never tires of promoting, has at the same time been pushing for special category status on grounds of how poorly placed it is in comparison with other states. “As per 2010-11 figures (of the Central Statistical Organisation), per capita income of Bihar (Rs …
Takes it to task for lands allotted to undertakings lying idle over years, also for lack of maintaining data base The Comptroller & Auditor General (CAG) has rapped the Maharashtra government for lack of a mechanism to carry out a periodic review of the lands allotted to Maharashtra Industrial Development …
Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's directive to develop eco tourism in the state and also for special development of Dudhwa National Park has spurred the Forest department into action. A proposal has been sent to the State Government for the developement of the Park. The Deputy Director Dudhwa Ganesh Bhatt while …
The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India has proposed a 30-point agenda with a view to achieve double digit growth during the next decade in Uttarakhand. Areas which will primarily be focussed on include industry promotion, international trade, agriculture and allied activities, special economic zones, energy, information and …
