Keeping with Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee's promise to strengthen the economy of Jammu and Kashmir, the Centre today approved a Rs 2,500 crore plan outlay for the state for 2003-04. The Special Task

The World Bank has earmarked $1 billion for Ecuador in a four-year lending program designed to help the economy and protect the poor, the bank said. At the same time, the bank approved two $50

The Annual Plan for Meghalaya for 2003-04 was fixed at rs. 555 crores at a meeting here today between the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, K.C. Pant, and the Meghalaya Chief Minister, D.D.

The annual Plan of Haryana for the current fiscal has been pegged at Rs 2,068 crore with the State Government being given the option to raise it to its budgeted Rs 2,100 crore. This was decided at a

Haryana's Annual Plan for 2003-04 has been finalised at rs 2,068 crores on the basis of identifiable resorces, but the State Government has assured the Planning Commission that it would generate its

The World Bank's choice of Bangalore for its recent Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics was recognition of two sets of accomplishments. One was the contribution of Indian researchers and

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and Telugu Desam president N Chandrababu naidu is all set to launch his election campaign with a bouquet of schemes at the three-day Mahanadu in Tirupati beginning on

Fifty years after it was set up to help disadvantaged women and children, the programmes run by the Central Social Welfare Board (CSWB) have failed to make a mark. Most of them become redundant. It

Interestingly, it is the conservative bureaucracy rather than the political process which is looking forward to greater cooperation among the southern states to promote sustained growth. The idea of

The five southern states have decided to constitute an economic union, on the lines of the European Union, and draw up an agenda on improving trade, commerce, tourism and attracting investment, among

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