Harsh Singh

Rural transformation requires a robust service enterprise framework with public and private stakeholders at the very core.

Promoting growth:Panchayati Raj Institutions must transform the vision of their mandate as being limited to resolving local disputes and implementing small works and accept a direct leadership role in agriculture, which is the mainstay of the rural economy.

India will need to spend $2.2 trillion (Rs 97.35 lakh crore) on its cities by 2030 to meet the urban infrastructure demands, a report released by the McKinsey Global Institute said today.

The first ever National People's Audit on Special Economic Zones in the country found the current SEZ policy unconstitutional and unsustainable, and demanded that it be scrapped.

NEW DELHI: The Annual Plan for Orissa for the current fiscal was finalised at Rs.11,000 crore at a meeting here on Tuesday between Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.

NEW DELHI: The Annual Plan for Assam for 2009-10 was on Monday pegged at Rs.7,645 crore at a meeting here between Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and State Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi.

With climate change and global warming all set to script the future course of the history of mankind, there is a call for reinventing development, said Sunita Narain, director of Centre for Science and Environment.

The 11th Plan

J. Balaji

NEW DELHI: The plan outlay for Andhra Pradesh for 2010-2011 has been fixed at Rs.36,800 crore, which is 9.86 per cent more than the outlay of Rs. 33,497 crore fixed for 2009-2010. The actual increase is Rs.3,303 crore this year.

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