Finance

The discussions on the Union budget 2005 2006 reflect the media s middle class obsession. The finance minister s proposal for a fringe tax on perquisites and other benefits of the salariat was

Publication Date:

30/03/2005

Author(s): Sunita Narain

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20050331

pp:

21

Tags:

Water Resources, Drinking Water, Economy, Economic Development, Finance, Union Carbide, Education, Governance

Economy

Union Budget 2005-2006

Union Budget 2005-2006.

Publication Date:

28/02/2005

Source: Ministry of Finance

Tags:

Budget, Government Of India (GOI), India, Economic Development, Finance

Industry

Bright futures

Punjab farmers can get higher wheat prices now

Publication Date:

14/02/2005

Author(s): Vikas Parashar

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Wheat, Farmers, Finance, Punjab

India

E savvy

Land Records

Publication Date:

14/02/2005

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Finance, India, Punjab

Economy

Impact of Dhan Foundation's Kalanjiam community banking programme

Self-Help Group and linkage banking programme has come a long way from a small pilot project of NABARD to become a major poverty financing programme in India. Several organisations have participated in the country-wide programme with several models, but the essence remained the banking linkage through groups of poor women. DHAN Foundation's programme named as Kalanjiam Community Banking Programme is one such big programme in the country with projects being operated across several blocks in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.

Publication Date:

01/01/2005

Author(s): R. Seenivasan

Source: Journal of Rural Development

Vol:

24

Issue:

1

pp:

23

Tags:

Finance, Anti-Poverty Programmes, National Bank For Agriculture And Rural Development (NABARD), Dhan Foundation, India, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Statistics

Health

Report of the National Commission on Macroeconomics and Health

The terms of reference of the National Commission on Macroeconomics & Health, included among others, a critical appraisal of the present health system — both in the public and the private sector — and suggesting ways and means of further strengthening it with the specific objective of improving access to a minimum set of essential health int

Publication Date:

01/01/2005

Source: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

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