With international pressure mounting on India to cut emissions in the fight against climate change, the government’s goal of providing ‘power for all’ seems to be a tall order.

Chennai: A National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) study found that nearly half of the country’s farmer households are in debt.

PMO approved the criteria that put family of 5 having . 26/day above poverty line

New Delhi: Updating the poverty line cutoff figures, the Planning Commission said that those spending in excess of Rs 32 a day in urban areas or Rs 26 a day in villages would no longer be eligible

A pilot survey has already been conducted in Amritsar, Imphal and Mumbai, will soon reach to other places.

For the first time, the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) plans to conduct a nationwide survey to assess the extent of drug abuse in various parts of the country.

The Centre’s debt relief scheme for the farmers has given anything but relief to the poor farmers.

Participation of people from the general category in the government

Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia today lamented that most of the current government programmes lacked a proper evaluation mechanism.

"We need to assess the impact of government programmes in a more accurate manner and cannot just say that over a period of time the programme has changed lives, for which we need better evaluation,&" Ahluwalia said here during his address

The Union Cabinet has approved a headcount to assess the number of people below the poverty line (BPL) after a gap of nine years, but it could not end a debate over the methodology of counting the poor and extending social welfare activities like food and health to all. On the one side of the debate are social activists and states, and on the other stands the Planning Commission. Till the Ni

The Prime Minister-appointed panel on Food and Public Distribution System (F&PDS) headed by Deputy Chairman Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia has suggested that the current system of distributing PDS foodgrain per household should be replaced with per capita allocation.

According to National Sample Survey (NSS) data, lower income households have more members per family than higher inco