-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Raising doubts on the genuineness of the government's plan expenditure, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has written to the finance ministry saying its data provided on schemes worth over Rs 3 lakh crore for 2012-13 "points to serious deficiencies". The auditor said a detailed scrutiny had revealed that government in several cases was giving post-dated sanctions - in some instances sanctions were granted by the...
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Index Numbers of Wholesale Price in India (Base: 2004-05=100) Review for the month of December, 2013
-Press Information Bureau The official Wholesale Price Index for ‘All Commodities' (Base: 2004-05 = 100) for the month of December, 2013 declined by 1.3 percent to 179.2 (provisional) from 181.5 (provisional) for the previous month. INFLATION The annual rate of inflation, based on monthly WPI, stood at 6.16% (provisional) for the month of December, 2013 (over December, 2012) as compared to 7.52% (provisional) for the previous month and 7.31% during the corresponding month...
More »Western Ghat Row: No Central panel to Be Appointed Now
-Outlook After a row over implementation of a expert committee report, the Centre has ruled out appointment of any more panel to study Western Ghats in an attempt to address concerns of the six states through which the ecologically-sensitive hills traverse. Environment Minister M Veerappa Moily said the states concerned should appoint committees respectively to assess the kind of activities that could be allowed in the tract. After the committees submit their...
More »Do not insist on RTI applicants to provide address: Centre
-PTI NEW DELHI: Government departments should not insist on seeking address of an RTI applicant if a post box number is being provided to them for Communication, the Centre has said. The ministry of personnel has written to all central government ministries or departments, who act as public authorities mandated with providing information on RTI applications made to them, citing a judgement by Calcutta high court in this regard. "When the legislature thought...
More »Green Warriors: This farmer turned to activism due to climate change and got arrested-Venkateshwarlu
-The Alternative I have been volunteering for social issues since my childhood. I spent most of my childhood with my parents in our agriculture fields in our village, Paleannaram (Nalgonda district, Andhra Pradesh) where I've been a real witness to climate change. My childhood was great because we never faced any water problem for farming and didn't use so many fertilizers on the crops for yields. The way climate is changing, it...
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