The BJP has released its manifesto for the West Bengal Assembly polls, targeting women and youth voters with key promises. The Trinamool Co...

India's Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana has empowered countless micro-enterprises. This scheme provides collateral-free credit, fostering growt...

In Malda's remote villages, women are actively engaged in bidi-making, a traditional livelihood. This self-employment provides income indep...

A parliamentary panel has flagged the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment for surrendering nearly a quarter of funds sanctioned for ...

A significant portion, nearly 25%, of welfare funds earmarked for Scheduled Castes by central ministries remains unutilised in 2024-25, hig...

In the 2024-25 financial year, about one-fourth of the funds allocated for the welfare of Scheduled Castes went unutilised, marking the low...

Former Chief Economic Advisor and BJP MLA Ashok Lahiri criticized the West Bengal budget, labeling it as vote-oriented and more focused on ...

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee criticizes BJP MLAs' disruption during state budget tabling, warns against turning assembly into party offic...

Reviews conducted by NITI Aayog have revealed that the ministries are unable to find targeted schemes to utilise the earmarked amount and s...

The thrust is likely to be on infrastructure creation in SC and ST-dominated districts, they said, with enhanced allocation for constructio...

This is the first time that the finance ministry has allowed unspent SC welfare funds to be transferred to another ministry. The unpreceden...

The overall budget for ministry of social justice and empowerment has gone up from ₹8,207.56 crore to ₹10,517.62 crore – a 28% increase. Th...

Struggling with poor utilisation of funds earmarked for scheduled caste and scheduled tribe welfare schemes, the Centre has proposed a mone...

Even as most ministries show 50-60% utilisation with less than a month for the current fiscal to end, the review has found that funds spent...

Each year, 26 ministries earmark 2-32% of budget allocation under Scheduled Caste Sub Plan (SCSP) and 32 ministries 2-20% of allocation und...

FM has announced Rs 200 crore to SC enterprises through IFCI and an additional Rs 100 cr to be launched through Vanbandhu scheme.

Aiming to give a fillip to backward classes, Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday announced a slew of schemes including those specif...