To boost public transport, Centre will help cities buy buses About 15,000 new buses are in the pipeline for 63 cities in the country. The Central urban development ministry launched a new scheme on January 12 to assist states and transport units buy buses for public transport under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (jnnurm), which covers the 63 cities. States that have plans

Into its last days, the UPA Government finally extended the Transport Subsidy Scheme 1971, albeit temporarily, here today. The proposal for extension of the scheme has been gathering dust for the last couple of years over sharp differences between the Planning Commission and the Union Finance Ministry.

The State government earned a negligible profit of Rs 23 crore on its Rs 22,279-crore investment in companies and statutory corporations in 2007-08, according to the report filed by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.

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An excuse to privatize irrigation project STARTED in 1984, the yet to be completed Nira Deoghar irrigation project in Maharashtra has run into rough weather. A recent judgement by the three-member water regulatory authority has put on hold the privatization of the project in Bhor taluka, Pune district. Aimed at irrigating 45,000 hectares the project when conceived was to cost Rs 62