-PTI Amritsar: "In the coming time, we have plans to spend Rs 50,000 crore on farming and irrigation sectors in the country." Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday said the Centre was planning to spend Rs 50,000 crore on the farming and irrigation sector and plans were also afoot to roll out an insurance scheme exclusively for the farming sector to compensate for crop loss. Admitting that the condition of farmers is...
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Where is the caste data? -M Vijayanunni
-The Hindu By abdicating its responsibility to conduct the caste census and turning it into a poverty-cum-caste survey, the previous dispensation at the Centre made the exercise casual and perfunctory. This has been proved by the way the survey has turned out. In August 2010, Finance Minister and head of the Group of Ministers, Pranab Mukherjee, made a reassuring statement in Parliament on behalf of the government of India, that there would...
More »Social Safety nets require more public funding
The nation can be proud of running some of the world's largest programmes on social safety nets, says the latest report by World Bank. However, public spending on safety nets is still low in comparison to neighbouring countries Bangladesh and Pakistan. India tops the list of 136 countries for running the world's largest school feeding programme i.e. the Mid Day Meal Scheme (MDMS), and also the biggest public works programme i.e....
More »India's wholesale inflation falls further to (-)2.4%
-IANS NEW DELHI: India's annual RATe of inflation based on wholesale prices continued in the negative territory in June, falling further to (-)2.4 per cent from (-)2.36 per cent for the month before, official data showed on Tuesday. The annual RATe of inflation, as per the official wholesale price index, stood at 5.66 per cent in the corresponding month of the previous year, according to data released by the ministry of commerce...
More »670 Million In Rural Areas Live On Rs 33 Per Day -Saumya Tewari
-IndiaSpend.com More than 70 million rural households face some form of exclusion, either from assets or socio-economic benefits, according to data released by the Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) survey last week. As many as 833 million Indians, or 69% of the population, live in rural areas. The SECC report comes at a time when global credit RATing agencies, such as Moody’s, have warned that slow growth in rural India may cripple the...
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