Human Resource Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi has taken a big gamble. He has drawn up a massive Sarva Shikha Abhiyan (SSA) plan for the current fiscal in which his ministry along with the

Despite increasing the financial provision from Rs 9,095 crore in 1997-98 to Rs 14,070 crore in 2003-04, the Centre has been losing control over a host of schemes aimed to upgrade the rural

Stating that the Indian economy has the potential to grow at a much faster rate, chairman of Reliance Industries Mukesh Ambani said that India can triple its GDP growth rate to 15 per cent in next 20

Die-hard globalisation advocate, Prof Jagdish Bhagwati has said that economic globalisation was perhaps the best way, if not the only one, to reduce poverty and promote egalitarianism in society.

The Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee expressed concern over the slow pace of progress in many areas of the economy including removal of Inspector Raj, Centre-State fiscal problems, labour and

The severe indictment of the Orissa Government by the N.C. Saxena Commission for large scale corruption and irregularities in the implementation of anti-poverty schemes has not come a day too soon.

The Department of Urban Administration and Development organised a workshop in connection with obtaining financial assistance from Asian Development Bank for six cities of the state under Integrated

The UNICEF has committed US $2.7 million in projects that will look into the health nutrition, education, early care and development and rights of Bhutanese children.

A bountiful monsoon may have raised the prospects of higher agricultural production this fiscal, but the sector is stuck on a low growth trajectory. Public investment has dropped: In 1994-95, it

If the latest report of the World Bank is to be believed, the new year may usher in an economic recovery, though not on a scale earlier anticipated. After an exceptionally slow growth in 2001 and