Ten years on, the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana has provided clean cooking fuel to over 10 crore women. This initiative has significantly i...

Global brokerage Bernstein has cautioned India against becoming a mere user of future technology. The firm suggests that continued reliance...

The government's efforts to eliminate fake beneficiaries from various schemes resulted in saving approximately ₹3.35 lakh crore between FY1...

New Delhi, The Centre has launched a nationwide crackdown to curb diversion of about 10 lakh tonnes of agriculture-grade urea per year for ...

As a result, India now spends almost 4% of gross domestic product (GDP) on subsidies (almost as much as it spends on public education and h...

The government has embarked on a plan to plug leakages in its subsidy regime and the pilot project for fertilizer subsidy is a crucial part...

For fertiliser subsidy, trials are on in some places to transfer funds through DBT to check leakages by bringing in restrictions, Jayant Si...

The government said it has started taking necessary steps to implement direct transfer of fertiliser subsidy to farmers in order to reduce ...

Senior officials of commerce, agriculture, food and fertiliser ministries have been assigned the task of preparing the roadmap to rationali...

Subsidies on food, fuel, railway fertiliser and others amount to staggering Rs 3.77 lakh crore but reach only a few of the targeted poor, t...

If an election is coming, a quick word will raise the LPG cylinder cap or lower CNG prices, ignoring gaping fiscal deficits.

Lauding the government's DBT scheme, ADB said it will advise other developing nations to implement it in order to check corruption.

Mirrlees said that the Indian government was trying to manage the subsidies well by introducing direct cash transfers to the poor.

India is working towards elimination of subsidies in all areas except for food and is also taking concrete steps to reduce massive leakages...

A comprehensive 70-page interim report suggesting ways to plug leakages in the subsidies was submitted to Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee...

Manmohan Singh's core group on food and (PDS) is looking at the option of providing foodgrain subsidies using Aadhar Unique Identification ...

Fertiliser subsidy leakage may likely total to a shocking 10 percent plus of the country's massive subsidy bill this year.