-The Business Standard A panel headed by Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia has advocated the use of unique identification numbers to plug loopholes in the public distribution system (PDS). The working group on PDS reforms, which finalised its draft report today, has also suggested a nationwide computerised system for tracking transportation and distribution of PDS items. “We have approved the draft report and will give it to the Prime Minister...
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Bihar's per capita expenditure lowest in country
-TimesWireService.Com Patna/ New Delhi: Bihar Continues To Be At The Bottom Of The Ladder So Far Monthly Per Capita Expenditure (mpce) Is Concerned. Punjab, Kerala And Maharashtra Continue To Top The List. According To The 66th Round Of The Household Consumption Expenditure Survey Released By The National Sample Survey Office (nsso) On Friday, Rural Bihar With Just Rs 780 Has The Lowest Monthly Per Capita Expenditure (mpce) In The Country To...
More »Spending pattern points to India's rich-poor divide by Indivjal Dhasmana
The gap in consumption spending between poor and rich is more in urban areas than rural. Apart from much inequality in consumption between urban and rural areas. Consumption per capita was 5.6 times less in a month for the bottom ten per cent of the population than the top 10 per cent in rural areas during 2009-10. The disparity increases to 9.8 times between the two classes in urban parts, according...
More »Price of Singur by Anup Sinha
The land problem in Singur was a turning point in the political fortunes of both the Left Front and the Trinamul Congress. The story is far from complete, and the legal twists and turns between Mamata Banerjee and the house of Tata could unfold in surprising ways. The issue of adequate compensation for farmers, who had to part with their land, is still an open question to which many well...
More »Street vendors' forum to form Asia-level alliance by Smita Gupta
Plans to hold an Asia level conference in Delhi in November The National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI), which plans to form an Asia-level alliance to give momentum to the street vendor movement in different parts of the continent, is planning to hold an Asia-level conference in Delhi in November later this year. The organisation hopes the Union Housing and Urban Poverty Ministry will be a key partner for this...
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