Budgeting for agriculture and food
The Union Budget 2023-24 was presented against the backdrop of some critical geopolitical developments and was the last full budget before the next general elections. Signicantly, 2023 is also the year
Budget
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New Way to Tally Poor Recasts View of Poverty
The Census Bureau on Monday released what it says is a more accurate measure of poverty in America. The new measure shows more poverty among the elderly, but less among children and African-Americans.
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Ramesh asks CAG to audit job schemes’ R40,000-crore annual spend
New Delhi The rural development ministry has asked for a special audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General of the R40,000-crore annual budget of the National Rural Employment Programme. The audit,
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Sikkim seeks Rs 3,500 crore for short-term rehabilitation
GANGTOK: The Sikkim Government has submitted a memorandum to the Central Government for Rs 3500 crore for short term rehabilitation measures for the devastation caused by the recent earthquake, official sources said today. The memorandum was not a comprehensive estimate of the total damages incurred by the State, but that for immediate and short term measures for repair and rehabilitation, the sources said.
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EMS Housing Scheme to be continued till March next year
Minister for Panchayat and Social Welfare M. K. Muneer said in the Assembly on Thursday that the government proposed to continue the EMS Housing Scheme started by the previous government. Replying to
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PM Requests States to Cut Tax on Natural Gas, Imported LNG
Natural gas and imported liquefied natural gas could soon become cheaper if Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s plea to states to lower taxes on them is accepted. In a letter to the empowered committee
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Irrigation projects for Greater Dimoria
GUWAHATI: Social Welfare Minister Akon Bora today announced irrigation projects for Greater Dimoria in Kamrup (metro) district. All the three projects announced have a total budget of more than Rs 1,300 crore.
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EU Proposes New Limits on Farm Subsidies
Officials here kicked off what promises to be more than a year of bitter wrangling over how to revise its $75 billion-a-year program to aid Europe's farmers, and the sniping began almost immediately.
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Rs. 32 a day poverty line not all that “ridiculous”: Montek
Even as a controversy rages over the Rs. 32 per capita per day poverty line, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia has said “it is not all that ridiculous” in Indian conditions.
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EU Seeks Powers To Speed Up Energy Pipes, Grids
The European Union is seeking new powers to speed through major energy projects aimed at curbing dependence on imported oil and gas and ensuring sustainable, green supplies, according to draft legislation
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Rs 1,636.46 crore supplementary budget tabled
Amidst much uproar in the House, the Uttarakhand Government tabled the supplementary budget worth `1,636.46 crore on Wednesday. The State Government brought a supplementary budget in the State Assembly