In a move to rationalise the Centrally Sponsored Schemes under the agriculture ministry, the government will bring down the number of such schemes to just eight from the current 52 in the 12th Five

Makes case for Attorney General’s argument before SC.

Coined in 1979, poverty line remains a critical monitoring tool, says Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Alhuwalia while clarifying that the government’s primary focus has been on bri

The below poverty line (BPL) census, which is expected to put the issue of poverty in perspective, will be a scientific exercise of counting the poor, the Planning Commission believes.

Seeking to counter the perception of insensitivity, the government and the Planning Commission came together to remove caps on the number of poor an individual state can have and formally de-linked

Though the methodology for determining the poor would be based on the socio-economic caste census being undertaken by the Rural Development Ministry, the (Suresh) Tendulkar poverty line would remai

According to official sources the meeting dwelt on the new scheme of providing solar power plant to Government offices in the state capital. Chief Secretary Lalthara opined that such new schemes needed to be demonstrated and government department must work out the financial position for availing such projects.

New Delhi: Under fire from activists, including NAC’s Aruna Roy and Harsh Mander, for stipulating the poverty line at Rs 32 per capita per day, Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahlu

The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has recently informed an inter-ministerial panel that it has established a single-window system to track the process of environmental clearances from

After criticism by Jairam Ramesh and NAC members, I&B Minister Ambika Soni too questions Plan panel’s poverty estimate