Two Bad Years Impacted Overall Growth

The Green Revolution is said to have revolutionized agriculture in India. However, government data shows more or less the same rate of growth of yields for various crops from 1951 to about 1990, suggesting that the ‘revolution’ might not have been as momentous as it is believed to be.

The S R Hashim Committee report on urban poor has been put into cold storage by the UPA government.

Jayalalithaa asks PM's intervention to release Rs 1,500 cr from NCEF to support projects

In its bid to address lack of proper wind power evacuation infrastructure in the state, the Tamil Nadu government plans to take up projects with a total cost of Rs 5,998 crore. However, to take this plan forward, chief minister J Jayalalithaa has sought Prime Minister's intervention in releasing Rs 1,500 crore from the National Clean Energy Fund (NCEF) to the state.

The project is to be developed by Mahaguj Collieries in Angul district at an estimated cost of Rs 20,000 cr

With the row over availing free power from thermal power plants and plants based on coal washery rejects yet to be resolved, the Odisha government has decided to put on hold land acquisition for the Machhakata coal mine project.

Despite all the hype and hoopla over the free medicine scheme of the state government, the poor standards of health along with education and infrastructure have forced the Planning Commission to re

Government assures members that it won’t tinker with federal structure of governance

The Rajya Sabha on Monday approved by voice vote the National Food Security Bill after the government assured members that it had no intention of tinkering with the federal structure of governance through the legislation.

The latest estimates of the Planning Commission states the decline in the number of poor in Sikkim from 1,70,000 to 51,000 in the seven year period between 2004-05 to 2011-12.

Rajasthan is likely to get assistance from the National Clean Energy Fund for implementation of the solar pump scheme under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission.

The Planning Commission (PC) is set to approve the costly 100-megawatt furnace oil-based power station at Chapainawabganj, which involves hard-term US$109 million loan from a foreign bank, official

Will study the system, figure out innovative ways to distribute food subsidy

As the government gets ready to implement the ambitious National Food Security Ordinance, India’s first-ever independent evaluation office has started evaluating the targeted public distribution system to find innovative ways to distribute the food subsidy.