-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The disposal of cases filed in the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC), the country's apex consumer commission, is at its lowest in four years while the number of cases has hit an all-time high. According to details available on the central online database of consumer forums (CONFONET), the number of cases disposed of by the NCDRC was 5,812 till Tuesday, against 10,678 cases filed and...
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Give asset details or lose foreign posting: Govt to babus
-PTI NEW DELHI: All IAS officers have been asked to submit details of their assets by next month and warned that the failure to do so would lead to a denial of vigilance clearances needed for promotions and foreign postings. The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has written to all Central government departments, states and union territories asking them to ensure submission of Immovable Property Returns (IPRs) by IAS officers working...
More »The rise and fall of the WTO -C Rammanohar Reddy
-The Hindu As the U.S. loses interest in multilateralism in trade, India should actively try to arrest the organisation’s slide Less than 25 years after the World Trade Organisation (WTO) was created, its future as a body overseeing multilateral trade rules is in doubt. The failure of the recent ministerial meeting at Buenos Aires is only symptomatic of a decline in its importance. Too ambitious? When the WTO was born in 1995, replacing the...
More »Sliding GST collections may put pressure on government -Gireesh Chandra Prasad
-Livemint.com GST rate cut and lenient implementation of the tax reform has caused GST collection in December to slip to Rs80,808 crore, down 14% from August and 3% from November New Delhi: Things don’t augur well for the exchequer, with recent GST rate cuts and a lenient implementation of the goods and services tax causing collections to slide further in December, posing a challenge to the government. Total GST collection of the central...
More »Centre to dole out Rs 10,000 crore INCentive for municipal reforms -Dipak K Dash
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Centre will dole out the biggest ever INCentive of Rs 10,000 crore to municipalities and states in the next two years to push urban reforms. The housing ministry has put up the proposal before the Cabinet for approval. The ministry had introduced parameters for competition among states and municipalities last year and Rs 900 crore in INCentives was disbursed based on their performance for two...
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