-The Financial Express The government today announced discontinuing releasing weekly primary and food inflation data based on the Wholesale Price Index. "Weekly WPI is discontinued henceforth," the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, which releases the inflation data, said. The government, however, will continue releasing the monthly headline or overall inflation data, which also contains the break-up for all segments including food, non-food, fuel and manufactured items. The headline inflation figures for January are scheduled...
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Make MNREGA a success, empower grassroot organisations say manmohan singh, Sonia Gandhi
-IANS Payment under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) should be given within 15 days, Prime Minister manmohan singh said on Thursday as Congress chief Sonia Gandhi stressed that the key to the scheme's success was empowering grassroots level organisations. "In the last six years, we have seen several achievements in the implementation of MNREGA but there are several challenges before us. The biggest worry is that workers get...
More »Corruption in NREGA cannot be ignored: Sonia Gandhi
-The Indian Express Pitching for immediate reforms in the Centre's flagship rural job scheme MGNREGA, Congress President Sonia Gandhi today said the complaints of corruption and irregularities regarding the scheme cannot be ignored. Prime Minister manmohan singh and Gandhi also expressed concern over the delay in wage payment to MGNREGA workers, emphasising the need to ensure that they get it within 15 days. "Talks about reform in MGNREGA have been on for quite...
More »India-EU summit plans 'strict' road map for free trade pact by Amiti Sen
The India-EU summit scheduled in New Delhi next week will lay down a 'strict' road-map for conclusion of the ambitious bilateral free trade pact and also strengthen cooperation in security. Commerce and industry minister Anand Sharma briefed Prime Minister manmohan singh on Wednesday on the progress made in the FTA negotiations and the areas that still need to be sorted out. "The PM was briefed on the status of the India-EU...
More »Clean chit to PM, not PMO by Samanwaya Rautray
The uneasy head that wears the Prime Minister’s crown has been given a clean chit but not the bureaucrats. The Supreme Court today acknowledged that a Prime Minister could not be expected to look into “minute details” of every case placed before him but launched a blistering attack on officials of the PMO and the law ministry for failing to apprise manmohan singh of the gravity of the charges against A....
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