India's macro-economic policy is stable; will continue on growth path: Indian official"India is following a macro-economic policy which is stable, consistent and it will continue," Ratan P Watal, Member Secretary, Economic Ad...
29 Aug, 2019, 05.35 PM IST
Eminent economist Surjit Bhalla resigns from EAC-PM"I resigned as part-time member of PMEAC on December 1," Bhalla said on social networking site Twitter.
11 Dec, 2018, 10.38 AM IST
Government, industry must work together to promote R&D: Ratan P WatalIndia ranked well in several innovation inputs, including graduates in science and engineering, expenditures of major R&D-intensive global ...
08 Aug, 2018, 10.18 PM IST
Need for relook at payments norms to keep pace with tech changes, says Niti Aayog"There has been growth momentum in volume and value terms in digital payments after demonetisation," Principal Adviser to Niti Aayog Ratan ...
31 Jul, 2018, 02.15 PM IST
Govt to soon release digital payment fee policy: Niti Aayog officialNational Payments Corporation of India Managing Director & CEO A P Hota said it is necessary that banks issue debit cards to those customer...
03 Jul, 2017, 06.28 PM IST
Digital payments rise 55% in FY'17: WatalThe volume of overall digital payments, Watal further said, recorded a compounded average annual growth rate of 28 per cent from 2011-12 to...
03 Jul, 2017, 03.11 PM IST
RBI monitoring payments zone: Dy Governor R GandhiGandhi was speaking at the launch of BharatQR that facilitates smartphone-based QR code-enabled digital payments at retail merchant outlets.
21 Feb, 2017, 12.01 PM IST
Budget 2017: FM may give sops to PoS, micro ATM makersAccording to sources, the government may cut or eliminate excise duty on manufacturing of micro ATMs, finger print readers, biometric cards...
24 Jan, 2017, 11.40 PM IST
Watal panel suggests incentives, regulator for digital paymentThe 'Committee on Digital Payments', headed by former finance secretary Ratan P Watal, said that the overall objective of the government's ...
27 Dec, 2016, 07.53 PM IST
Ex-finance secretary Watal appointed as principal adviser in Niti AayogAppointed to the post for three years, it came a firtnight after his two month extended tenure as Finance Minister came to an end in April.
20 May, 2016, 12.54 PM IST
Finance Secretary Ratan Watal gets two month extensionWith the Budget-making process under way, government today extended the term of Finance Secretary Ratan Watal by two months till April 30.
11 Feb, 2016, 09.35 PM IST
Shaktikanta Das designated as Finance Secretary for 15 daysShaktikanta Das was today designated as Finance Secretary for about a fortnight during the absence of incumbent Ratan P Watal.
21 Dec, 2015, 09.40 PM IST
Government tweaks funding pattern of 17 key central schemesIn a major decision that could adversely affect social sector schemes, funding pattern of 17 centrally-sponsored schemes have been brought ...
10 Nov, 2015, 12.01 PM IST
Finance Ministry Secretaries take stock of economic state of affairsThe top officials also discussed issues relating to better coordination among all the Departments of the Ministry, especially in view of th...
07 Sep, 2015, 08.25 PM IST
Ratan Watal is new Finance Secretary, new team takes chargeAhead of beginning of work on the Budget for 2016-17, government today designated Ratan P Watal as new Finance Secretary even as a new team...
31 Aug, 2015, 08.23 PM IST
Budget 2015: IT link-up to keep an eye on state spendingThe ministry is looking to develop a module for real time monitoring of fund flow for better utilization of scarce resources.
02 Mar, 2015, 01.33 PM IST
Sumit Bose is the new Finance SecretaryRevenue Secretary Sumit Bose, an IAS officer of 1976 batch, will be the new Finance Secretary.
10 Dec, 2013, 05.58 PM IST