Farmers need greater access to credit and risk-hedging tools
Surinder Sud / New Delhi July 14, 2009, 0:58 IST

Farmers won't invest unless they earn more - and that requires greater access to credit and risk-hedging tools.

July 13: The State Level Bankers

Making cities slum-free is well-worn rhetoric lacking credibility. When Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee promised, in his recent budget speech, that India would become slum-free in five years, there was little enthusiasm. The allocation of Rs.3,973 crore has failed to provide real hope.

Budget 2009-10 is green in parts, but not in totality.

Kolkata, July 12 In the name of implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, what is actually happening is virtual looting of public money, according to Mr Yashwant Sinha, BJP leader and former Union Finance Minister.

NEW DELHI: The Union Environment and Forest Ministry has launched a new scheme for Accelerated Programme of Restoration and Regeneration of Forest Cover.

Announcing this here on Thursday, Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said the scheme was announced in the Budget proposals for 2009-10 with an allocation of Rs.500 crore.

JAIPUR: A decline in tax revenue and an additional burden on the State from implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission

Kalpana Pathak / Mumbai July 9, 2009, 0:00 IST

The biodiesel industry has welcomed finance minister

A Budget allocation of Rs 50 crore for Buddha Nullah will usher in a ray of hope for restoring the pristine existence of this stinking nullah. For the first time, the Punjab government has made an exclusive Budget allocation for the purging of the drain, contaminated largely by polluting industries.