August 27, 2024 10:13 am
NITI Aayog’s Suman Bery said India is poised to reach Amrit Kaal, with strong foundations like GDP growth, resilience, productivity and inclusion.
February 26, 2024 11:31 am
To address financial concerns of southern states, finance commission could give weightage to performance on demographic indicators, tax efforts and fiscal position
September 27, 2018 9:44 pm
Velumani also thanked Tomar for recommending to the central government to release the second installment of the basic grant of Rs 758.06 crore for 2017-18, to the rural local bodies.
May 14, 2018 9:28 am
Using 2011 data will penalise southern states, which have made considerable progress in population control, and deny them reward for progress made in areas such as health, literacy, education and infrastructure.
November 02, 2017 7:00 pm
Much has changed since First Commission was set up in 1951 — from scale of transfer of tax proceeds to terms of reference of the body, from nature of Centre-state equations to the Commission’s composition
June 16, 2015 5:32 am
A report prepared by Kotak shows that while the states’ expenditure on irrigation has jumped from around Rs 20,000 crore in 2000 to over Rs 98,000 crore in 2014.
April 19, 2015 12:50 pm
If one compared the budget estimate for 2014-15 and 2015-16, the reduction was extremely harsh.
March 19, 2015 1:37 am
The FFC also suggested replacing the existing FRBM Act with a debt ceiling and fiscal responsibility legislation, specifically invoking Article 292 in its Preamble.
March 06, 2015 2:00 am
The BJD has already made it clear that it would not support the amended Land Acquisition Bill in Parliament.
March 05, 2015 12:13 am
The changing electorate and competitive federalism will be checks on their profligacy.


