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Precept And Practice: UPA Reforms Agenda

What was announced in Budget

Vinayak Chatterjee / New Delhi July 20, 2009, 0:10 IST

A series of key interventions are required if the infrastructure market is to take off.

The finance minister made two remarks at the start of the Union Budget address on July 6, 2009. First, that one budget cannot solve all the nation

Insurgency and geographical isolation from the rest of India are two of the major causes for underdevelopment of the North East region of India despite the fact that the region has abundance of natural resources, said a report of the World Bank.

Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission.

Roudra Bhattacharya

Goa today put up a strong case with Planning Commission of India for Rs 1310 crore as special grants for infrastructural development, national games, golden jubilee celebration of Liberation from Portuguese rule and beach safety.

Parliamentary committee asks centre to hold back CMZ notification sustained protests by fishing communities and environmentalists has forced the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests to review the proposed Coastal Management Zone (cmz) draft notification that allows airports and other development projects in coastal areas. The ministry has set up a committee to review the draft

MUMBAI: A ten-member World Bank (WB) team is in the city for a week to inspect infrastructure projects under the Rs 4,500-crore Mumbai Urban

Transport Project (MUTP) and hold discussions with the state government on a loan for the MUTP-II project slated to cost Rs 5,300 crore.