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Explained: What is the new VB-G RAM G Act and how will it replace MGNREGA?A new rural employment law, VB-G RAM G Act, will replace MGNREGA on July 1. It guarantees 125 days of work annually, focusing on infrastruc...
Parliamentary Panels flag ministries’ budget gaps: Funds cut at RE stage, still unspentParliamentary committees have flagged a consistent trend of central ministries failing to spend allocated budgets, leading to significant f...
Haryana CM Manohar Lal hails Union Budget for focus on farm, MSMECongratulating the Union Finance Minister for presenting a pro-poor, pro- farmers and pro-common man budget, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar...
Navy needs "assured" budget support to build capability: Chief"This way we are finding it difficult to assure the nation, that wants to become a USD 5 trillion economy by 2024, and give the kind of imp...
Parliamentary panel pulls up DoP, NPPA for poor budgetary planningWhile pulling up the NPPA for under utilisation of allocated funds, the committee asked the autonomous body to take "sincere steps to optim...
View: By-poll results may make the BJP reconsider calling for state and national elections togetherJaitley’s announcement of ‘Modicare’, billed as the largest-ever health scheme in the world, will touch the lives of 500 million people in ...
Government to bring over 10 crore BPL people under new health insurance schemeCurrently, the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna provides an annual coverage of only Rs 30,000 to poor families. The average premium paid per p...
Opposition slams Union Budget as 'directionless'With a struggling economy, the Congress leader wondered if the government would be able to achieve 15 to 16 per cent increase in tax collec...
Finance Ministry urges upgradation of social sector schemes, hints at revampJaitley said there was need to upgrade various social sector schemes & their delivery mechanism, indicating that the new govt could be thin...
- CAG finds fault in railway accounting system
The Comptroller and Auditor General has found several miscalculations of expenditure and other accounting mistakes while verifying the acco...
Airport development in Northeast India to suffer as AAI slashes fund: PanelParliamentary panel of Rajya Sabha has remarked that slashing of AAI budgetary support will hit the airport development programme in Northe...
- Railways asked to achieve 12th Plan target
Taking note of Railways' poor performance during Eleventh Plan, a parliamentary panel has asked it to ensure that targets fixed for raising...
Is India's $1 trillion infrastructure target overly optimistic?According to latest report by ICRA, at least 50% of the $1 trillion will have to come from non- budgetary allocation.
Rail Budget 2013: Railways to get modest hike of Rs 2000 crore for next fiscalDespite the government’s effort to cut down spending and bring fiscal discipline, railways was expecting a better deal.
Gujarat's budget: Increased healthcare plan outlay by 24%Like Obama administration in US, the Gujarat government makes an attempt to target the public healthcare in Gujarat's State Budget 2013.
- Plan panel may get modest increment
Final decision to be taken at a meeting between FM Pranab Mukherjee and Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia.
- Orissa to miss KBK plan this fiscal : Prof Abhijit Sen
Refuting the allegation of the state government that the centre has slashed the budgetary allocation to KBK, Prof Sen said, the state had b...
- Budget countdown: Fund crunch may cripple lower mass appeal plans
A resource crunch may leave poor labourers, higher educational institutes, railways and the power sector high and dry.
- Govt may take a relook at PDS
The government may redesign the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS), as 58% of subsidised grains under the scheme does not reach to ...
- Full plan panel meeting on September 9
The Planning Commission will have to do a tightrope walk in allocation of the additional Rs 10,000 crore for various social sector porjects...