-Press Information Bureau/ Ministry of Finance The Economic Survey 2013-14 presented by the Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitely has asked policy makers to design and execute development strategies targeting the young population that was approximately 58 per cent in 2001 and will increase to more than 64 per cent in 2021. The Government has to take timely action to make people healthy, educated and adequately skilled. Social-sector expenditure Expenditure on social services...
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Agriculture sector: Challenges & Reforms Required
-Press Information Bureau/ Ministry of Finance The Economic Survey 2013-14 released in New Delhi today has highlighted several challenges and reforms required in the agriculture sector. The Economic Survey states that as a concomitant of growth, the share of agriculture and allied sector in gross domestic product (GDP) declined to 15.2% during the Eleventh Plan and further to 13.9% in 2013-14 (provisional estimates-PE). While it still accounts for about 54.6% of...
More »Anna Bhagya, a success story in Mysore -Shankar Bennur
-The Hindu Quantum of rice distributed meets our food requirements, say beneficiaries Mysore (Karnataka): Below the poverty line cardholders Honnamma, Nagarathna and Parvathamma are univocal in their support for Anna Bhagya, the flagship programme of the State government. The scheme has guaranteed food for their families at a subsidised cost, they say. The quality of rice distributed (at Re. 1 a kg) under the scheme is better than that distributed earlier at Rs....
More »Rangarajan committee report: 11 major states out of 20 have lesser percentage of poor than Gujarat -Rajiv Shah
-Counterview.net Latest report on MEAsuring poverty authored by a committee headed by former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor C Rangarajan, has found that as many as 11 major Indian states out of 20 have fewer percent of poor than Gujarat. Submitted to the Modi government as a plea to come up with a new poverty criterion that takes into account "public expenditure that is being incurred in areas like education,...
More »Number of out-of-school kids shrinks by 45% -Pavan MV
-The Times of India BANGALORE: With 1.4 million kids not attending class, India may rank fourth globally on the number of out of school children (OOSC), but Karnataka's performance on that index has improved, if figures are an indication. The state's OOSC rate has come down by around 45% in a span of eight months. What's more heartening is that fewer girls are opting to drop out of schools. A 2013-14 survey...
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