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Reality check: Jairam can’t offer funds [1]

After patting on the back by announcing that he would give one per cent of the annual budget of the ministry for rural development (`99,000 crores) to the ministry of panchayati raj, Union minister Jairam Ramesh is faced with reality check — that it is not he who can do so, but Parliament only.

A few weeks ago, Union minister for rural development Jairam Ramesh announced that one per cent of his ministry’s annual budget, which would come to about `990 crores, would be given to the panchayati raj ministry.

Publication Date: 
14/05/2012
Manish Anand [2]
Asian Age (New Delhi) [3]
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Ministry Of Rural Development [4], Budget [5], Parliament [6], Ministry of Panchayati Raj [7], Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana [8], National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) [9], Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (Total Sanitation Campaign) [10], Economy [11]
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