-The Hindu In the present state of the economy, when there is excess capacity in manufacturing, adequate stocks of foodgrain and the inflation rate is trending downwards, there is an opportune moment for a public investment-centred fiscal expansion Over the past eight months, the government has issued some strong statements on the economy and taken some bold steps aimed at transforming it. As it prepares to present its first real budget we...
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India’s tough renewable energy targets -Athar Parvaiz
-SciDev.net India plans to produce 160,000 megawatts of renewable energy by 2022 Financing, land-acquisition and proper policies are among challenges to the plans Government confident of financing by World Bank and multilateral agencies NEW DELHI: Financing, land-acquisition and lack of proper policies are among challenges to India's ambitious renewable energy projects, the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS) run by The Energy and...
More »Goa racing to meet Food Security Act deadline -Joaquim Fernandes
-The Times of India PANAJI: With the deadline for the implementation of the National Food Security Act (NFSA) in Goa fast-approaching (March 15), the government is scrambling to complete the verification of beneficiary data, both for the electronic public distribution system (e-pds) and also for the NFSA. Civil supplies minister Dayanand Mandrekar told TOI that if Goa does not implement the NFSA on time, the state risks losing the PDS quota of...
More »In the Shadow of Displacement, Forest Tribes Look to Sustainable Farming -Stella Paul
-IPS News CHINTOOR, India- Laxman, a 10-year-old Koya tribal boy, looks admiringly at a fenced-in vegetable patch behind his home in southern India's Andhra Pradesh state. Velvety-green and laden with vegetables, the half-acre patch is where Laxman's family gets their daily quota of nutritious food. But one day soon it will disappear under several feet of water, thanks to the Polavaram multipurpose project - a 45-metre-high, 2.32-km-long mega dam currently under construction...
More »New GDP Numbers Make Jaitley Happy -Lola Nayar
-Outlook 7.4 per cent growth is good news for the NDA's finance minister who will present his full budget two weeks from now. Indian economy is forecast to grow at an accelerated 7.4 percent in the fiscal year ending in March 2015 as against 6.9 percent in the previous fiscal, according to advance estimates released Monday. The high growth numbers, based on the new formula (with 2011-12 as the base year)...
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