-Outlook Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, who today completed one year in office, claimed that his government has created 'path for permanent development' of the state and people's faith in democracy has increased. "We can claim that in the last one year we have created path for the permanent development of the state. The government has worked in every sector and taken the state forward," Akhilesh said here on the...
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Maha Governor downplays irrigation scam, instead argues importance of irrigation in current drought-Sanjay Jog
-The Business Standard Expresses government's resolve to attract Rs 5 lakh crore investments in 5 years Maharashtra government on Monday downplayed the ongoing controversy over the multi crore irrigation scam. Instead, the state Governor K Sankaranarayanan in his address to the joint session of the Maharashtra Legislature said during the drought year, importance of creation of new irrigation potential is quite obvious. In 2011-12, an irrigation potential of 1.08 lakh hectare was...
More »CAG questions costing of 350-acre Gurgaon land sold to DLF -Navneet Sharma
-The Hindustan Times In what seems set to provide fresh ammo to its political rivals, the comptroller and auditor general (CAG) is learnt to have raised questions about the valuation of 350 acres given by the Haryana government to realty major DLF Limited in Gurgaon through competitive bidding for setting up a recreation-cum-leisure project. The CAG, which examined the procedures and the competitive bidding route taken by the Haryana State Industrial and...
More »FDI in retail will touch only 13.3% of population, Centre tells SC -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India The Union government downplayed the opposition's concern over allowing foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail and informed the Supreme Court on Friday that the policy, when fully implemented, would touch the lives of only 13.3% of the country's population living in 53 cities. The government said its policy on FDI in multi-brand retail stipulated that retail sales outlets could be set up only in cities with a population...
More »Dismal economic data adds to government’s woes
-The Times of India There was no let up in bad news for the government on the economic front. Amid the debate over slowing economic growth, data released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) on Tuesday showed industrial output fell 0.6% in December, posing fresh policy challenges. This is the second successive month of decline for factory growth which has remained anaemic due to a string of factors including high interest rates,...
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