NEW DELHI: The Annual Plan for West Bengal for 2010-11 was finalised at Rs.17,985 crore at a meeting here on Thursday between Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and State Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee.

There is an increase of 27 per cent in the plan outlay of Rs 1,326 crore announced for Kodagu district for the year 2010-11.

The country needs an effective strategy for manufacturing to become a powerful engine for inclusive and sustainable double-digit economic growth, says Arun Maira

While industry will welcome flexible labour laws and procedural simplifications, it is likely this will create an unlevel playing field for units that are not located in these SEZ-style industrial zones.

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Chief Economist, Crisil*

NMIZs will reduce the constraints imposed by inadequate infrastructure, rigid labour laws and procedural bottlenecks

JAIPUR: The utilisation of external assistance for various projects being implemented in Rajasthan was reviewed at a high-level meeting here on Tuesday with a call to ensure full use of the money received and convert the schemes into

The meeting between Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalliah and Chief Minister Digambar Kamat for the finalisation of the Annual Plan 2010-11 will be held in New Delhi on April 13, official sources said.

Devika Banerji / New Delhi April 5, 2010, 0:40 IST

It is time, says the Planning Commission in its mid-term Plan appraisal, to address the continued slippage in spending on health and edcuation.

Though the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has constantly termed these two sectors as priorities, the spending on these suffered significantly in the past three years.

NEW DELHI: Delhi is all set to have an improvised industrial infrastructure with the Delhi Assembly passing the Delhi Industrial Development, Operation and Maintenance Bill, 2010, this past week.

THE AMBITIOUS SEZ project of the listed entity, Dishman Pharmaceuticals & Chemicals, will finally take off after a delay of over four years. With construction beginning at the site, the company is now hopeful to raise further funds for the project.