-Outlook Bhubaneswar: A World Bank team has offered to provide technical assistance, global expertise and logistic support to Odisha and its mining sector, official sources said today. This was conveyed by the five-member World Bank Team led by Vikram Menon, State Programme Coordinator, to the state government while wrapping up its visit here yesterday. "The team expressed its willingness to provide and utilise non-lending technical assistance and world-class expertise in the state mining...
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The land Bill is pro-bureaucracy, anti-farmer-NC Saxena
-The Business Standard The process prescribed in the law is so cumbersome and time consuming that neither industry nor landowner will benefit Fast economic Growth in the last two decades has increased demand for land from many sources, such as infrastructure, industry, mining, and urbanisation, including real estate. Even when these activities are funded privately and are driven by profit motive, they serve a social purpose since employment generation per unit of...
More »Busting a few myths about poverty-Ajit K Ghose
-The Business Standard While economic Growth may reduce poverty, no systematic correlation between the pace of poverty decline and the pace of economic Growth can be found in the data Recent publication of new numbers on poverty by the Planning Commission has revived some old controversies. The numbers show that while the incidence of poverty declined both between 1993-94 and 2004-05 and between 2004-05 and 2011-12, the pace of decline was much...
More »Most migrants in Delhi still from UP, but Bihar’s share rising fast
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Delhi has always been a melting pot - people from across the country come here to study or to work. But in the past decade there appears to have been a change in the composition of its population. Uttar Pradesh continues to be the state from which the largest share of migrants come to Delhi-about 47%, up from about 43% in 2001. But the biggest...
More »Delhi, NCR likely to generate 50,000 metric tonnes of e-waste by 2015: Assocham -Arunav Sinha
-The Times of India LUCKNOW: India's capital is emerging as the world's dumping capital for e-waste, with hazardous activities taking place and like to generate e-waste to an extent of 50,000 metric tonnes (MT) per annum by 2015 from the current level of 30,000 metric tonnes per annum, growing at a compound annual Growth rate (CAGR) of about 25%, according to an Assocham estimate. The Assocham latest study on "E-waste in India...
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