Modify FRBM Act but avoid activism, says Economic SurveySurvey says operational framework of law needs to be modified ‘for India of today and tomorrow’.
01 Feb, 2017, 01.06 AM IST
Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management panel to submit report by November 20In May this year the govt had formed a five-member committee under former revenue secretary N K Singh to review the working of the 12-year ...
01 Nov, 2016, 10.39 PM IST
- Lending rate on small savings loans to states linked to FRBM
The Union cabinet has cleared a finance ministry proposal to withdraw lower lending rates offered to states on loans from NSSF.
16 Sep, 2011, 04.02 AM IST
- Saving the FRBM Act
Commitment to fiscal discipline must be more than skin-deep, across the polity.
10 Jun, 2011, 04.31 AM IST
- Govt to return to FRBM target at the earliest: MoS finance
Government said it will return to the FRBM target for fiscal deficit at the earliest, as soon as the negative effects of the global economi...
10 Jul, 2009, 06.01 PM IST
- Zero fiscal deficit target; suggests Eco Survey with riders
Government should assess the possibility of having a new target of entirely eliminating fiscal deficit, but with a flexibility that it coul...
02 Jul, 2009, 02.49 PM IST
- Modest hike in fuel retail prices to derail fiscal targets
The oil package, which includes Customs and excise duty cuts, will lead to a total revenue loss of Rs 22,660 cr. Watch: Fuel price hike ine...
05 Jun, 2008, 05.30 AM IST
- Commission award likely to put FRBM target out of reach
While the Sixth Pay Commission may not have succeeded in pleasing middle-rung government employees.
25 Mar, 2008, 03.40 AM IST
- Congress sends 'power'ful message to FM
The Congress, which appears to have concluded that the path to power lies in populist measures, has asked the finance minister to forget th...
14 Feb, 2008, 01.27 AM IST
- Plan panel, finmin may spar over FRBM
The Plan panel and the finance ministry could clash once again over the targets set in the Fiscal Responsibility & Budget Management (FRBM)...
23 Nov, 2006, 01.17 AM IST
- ‘Widen tax base, cut deficit to maintain GDP growth’
Mohan said the scope for deepening fiscal empowerment lied in improving tax revenue, and added that the reversal of the declining trend in ...
07 Nov, 2006, 07.53 PM IST
- Planning Commission meet on fiscal discipline
The Planning Commission argued that not much budgetary resources will be available with it and with the Centre to spend in 2007-08 if FRBM ...
16 Oct, 2006, 07.00 PM IST
- Fiscal, monetary policy managers now walk in step
The country’s fiscal and monetary policy managers are seldom known to hum the same tune. But the two are now doing the tango when it comes ...
31 Aug, 2006, 03.41 AM IST
- RBI supports FM on containing fiscal deficits
Reserve Bank on Wednesday came to the rescue of Finance Minister P Chidambaram, virtually supporting his view that resource mobilisation fo...
30 Aug, 2006, 09.40 PM IST
- Finmin opposes move to shift fiscal goalposts
As the quarterly progress report on Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM) Act is readied for presentation in Parliament on Fri...
25 Aug, 2006, 03.53 AM IST
- MoF in a dilemma over FRBM deadline
The Planning Commission (PC) seems to have presented a tough choice to the finance ministry. It will have to either meet the Fiscal Respons...
23 Jun, 2006, 02.07 AM IST
- FM sees 12% nominal GDP growth in FY06
Government on Monday projected a 12 % nominal growth but admitted that it will not be able to meet FRBM target of reducing fiscal deficit b...
28 Feb, 2005, 07.31 PM IST