Money unspent is welfare deniedA significant portion, nearly 25%, of welfare funds earmarked for Scheduled Castes by central ministries remains unutilised in 2024-25, hig...
28 Apr, 2025, 10.54 PM IST
Govt may use BOCW funds to push pension schemeA senior government official told ET that the labour ministry is contemplating using funds collected under the Building and Other Construct...
15 Aug, 2022, 12.27 AM IST
Unused funds for SCs, STs to be transferred to Social Justice and Tribal Affairs MinistriesEvery year, the ministries together earmark Rs 1.3 lakh crore for various schemes, including entitlement-based schemes. Several ministries ...
01 Apr, 2022, 12.11 AM IST
Seek prior approval before re-appropriating funds provided for travel, other expenses: FinMinThe Department of Expenditure under the ministry has issued an office memorandum with regard to re-appropriation of funds which are likely ...
24 Sep, 2020, 10.18 PM IST
Green projects hit but 60% of Rs 1 lakh crore in coal cess sits idleAgainst such a huge collection, however, only Rs 29,614 crore has been transferred to NCEF so far.
14 Aug, 2019, 02.55 PM IST
Push Delhi government for better local roads: House panel to CentreThe 31-member committee "strongly recommended" MoRTH to convey its "displeasure" to the Delhi govt for non-submission of proposals for cons...
13 Aug, 2017, 12.39 PM IST
Bihar not implementing agri-schemes; Nitish Kumar evades questions: Radha Mohan Singh"If the CM is really concerned about increasing the income of the farmers, he should show his commitment towards the implementation of the ...
13 Jun, 2017, 08.38 PM IST
NITI Aayog to examine if SC/ST sub-plans can be non-lapsableThe decision was taken at a recent meeting on Scheduled Castes Sub-Plan (SCSP) and Tribal Sub-Plan (TSP) monitoring framework chaired by th...
04 Dec, 2016, 11.38 AM IST
Finance Ministry mulls raising FII investment sub-limit in government bonds"There is general demand and there is a space to increase FII limit in government debt...No intent to increase overall $ 30 billion FII deb...
21 Jul, 2014, 08.14 PM IST
Rural Ministry wants states to retrieve unspent plan fundsThe ministry has protested the cuts, but is simultaneously looking to keep things going by retrieving the funds that are stuck in the pipel...
15 Jan, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
Central government may ask states to return idle fundsHard-pressed for funds, the Central govt may ask states to surrender the funds which are unlikely to be utilised during the current financi...
22 Oct, 2012, 05.00 AM IST
- External assistance funds over Rs 1 lakh cr unutilised: Govt
Government today said that external assistance funds lying unutilised with the Centre and the state governments have totalled over Rs 1.24 ...
02 Sep, 2011, 06.58 PM IST
- Classrooms may soon be occupied after college hours too
The Centre is considering a policy intervention to ensure optimum utilisation of public assets of educational institutions.
18 Mar, 2010, 05.50 AM IST
- FM may allow RRBs to offer food credit
The finance ministry may allow regional rural banks (RRBs) to join their sponsor banks in financing food procurement exercise by Food Corpo...
22 Feb, 2010, 02.10 PM IST
- Budget 2010-11 gets off the ground
The finance ministry on Thursday kicked off the budget-making exercise for 2010-11 by asking other government wings to review all schemes t...
17 Sep, 2009, 01.41 AM IST
- Govt plans to pay for green rural telecom revolution
The government is considering a proposal by which companies using solar or biogas power for running the rural telecom infrastructure (tower...
24 Jun, 2008, 12.07 AM IST
- Exchequer saves Rs 10 cr as ministers go on fewer tours
The government has saved nearly one-tenth of the amount it allocated for tours of union ministers during 2006-07 as they went on fewer trip...
09 Dec, 2007, 05.15 PM IST