During the year, 128 km of road construction was completed under the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ). Out of total length of…
Two years after the launch of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, the Planning Commission has pointed out that…
Inadequate manpower in the Employees? Provident Fund Organisation coupled with lopsided and unscientific structure of field offices have resulted in…
Faced with volatile international prices of essential commodities like edible oil, pulses and wheat, which impacts domestic prices and inflation,…
The shipbuilding industries? cries for resuming a subsidy scheme might go unheeded. In a move that could impact firms like…
The government is planning to merge the Integrated Child Development Scheme programme with other flagship progarmmes like Sarva Siksha Abhiyan,…
For workers in the unorganised sector the wait could just get longer for social security benefits under the proposed Unorganised…
India?s infrastructure needs are mammoth. No less impressive are the funding requirements for core sectors and the government has been…
Bihar has the lowest per capita productivity in agriculture at Rs 661 against the national average of Rs 2,370, and…
If you?ve always known that working women get a raw deal in India, here are the statistics to prove it.…
With a significant 70% increase in allocation on the cards for the government?s flagship NREG programme, Finance minister P Chidambaram…
Delay in central projects in infrastructure sectors like roads, highways, ports, petroleum, railways and power is estimated to cost the…
Panchayats may soon be the newest kids on the debt block. The government is planning to give them the freedom…
The metros like Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai seem to have lost the magnetic touch as centres of employment.
Contrary to the popular belief that states are cash strapped, the Planning Commission found that barring a few like West…
The government is planning to invest Rs 750 crore to upgrade the 1,396 ITIs into centres of excellence in specific…
The UPA government might be busy announcing social welfare schemes and preparing for the snap polls but a review of…
This is for the first time ever that the annual plan size for a state is being finalised in the…
