The Planning Commission today expressed concern over the high generation cost, as well as over 30 per cent distribution losses in the power sector, saying there was a strong need to tackle this problem.

The September 1 meeting of the full Planning Commission, to be chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, would take stock of the problems plaguing the country

Mahesh Vyas / New Delhi July 27, 2009, 0:44 IST

Under a third of the target for power generating capacity in 2008-09 was met. What

New Govt May Also Withdraw Dual Pricing Of Kerosene & LPG

POLITICALLY tough decisions such as free-market pricing of fuels such as petrol and diesel may happen sooner than expected now, with the election of India

The Planning Commission has once again raised doubts over achieving the targeted power capacity addition of over 78,000 Mw planned in the current Five-Year Plan period (2007-2012).

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Dhanbad, Feb. 20: For Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL) workers associated with the Moonidih Project, living in over 300 quarters of the company, soon there will be light.

Planning Commission member Kirti S. Parikh on Friday inaugurated the coal bed methane (CBM) generating unit at the Moonidih Colliery of BCCL.

nuclear energy Private players? Private players may soon be allowed entry into nuclear energy production. Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said as much minutes before he went in to deliberate on the draft Integrated Energy Policy with the plan panel. The law will, however, have to be amended to allow the private sector to set up nuclear plants, he added.

A committee recommends rationalization of diesel and petrol prices The long awaited pricing formula for petroleum products to bail out the oil industry from impending bankruptcy has been tabled. If put into effect this prescription can correct distorted prices of automotive fuels of petrol and diesel and halt misuse of under-taxed and under-priced diesel by the car sector. This is

The Planning Commission on Friday allocated an annual plan size of Rs 9,600 crore for Chhattisgarh for the year 2008-09.

Submitting the report of the Sixth Pay Commission to Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Monday, Chairman Justice B N Srikrishna called the recommendation for a hike of 40 per cent in salaries of over 4