An outlay of Rs 52,839 crore, which is 247 per cent more than the previous plan, has been proposed for the Home Ministry in the draft 12th Five Year Plan put up before the National Development Council (NDC) in the national capital on Thursday. The highest Rs 6,841 crore has been allocated for National Population Register, a comprehensive identity database of every usual resident in the country being prepared by...
10:39 PM, Dec 27, 2012
New Delhi: Holding that "high" fiscal deficit is a deterrent for domestic and foreign investments, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said the government will have to overcome constraints to achieve a target of nearly one trillion dollars of investment in infrastructure sectors. Conscious of the fact that the government was working "against the political calendar", he called for a common understanding to work out mechanisms and remedial measures to...
01:49 PM, Nov 01, 2012
New Delhi: The 12th Plan document, which seeks to raise annual economic growth rate to 9 per cent during the five-year period (2012-17), may not be ready for the implementation by September as envisaged earlier. "It would be difficult to have 12th Plan document ready by September as many working groups have not submitted their final reports to their respective divisions," a source said. At present many working groups set...
01:33 PM, Apr 29, 2012
New Delhi: Even as the government is mulling setting an ambitious target of creating new power generation capacity of one lakh MW for 12th Plan (2012-17), Minister of Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh thinks that is "ecologically unsustainable". Expressing serious concerns during the full Planning Commission meeting headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last month, Ramesh emphasised on correlation between energy, water and environment and said, "it is ecologically unsustainable"....
05:59 PM, May 30, 2011
New Delhi: Planning Commission on Wednesday said it has appointed civil rights activist Binayak Sen, convicted for sedition, on board of one of its steering committee to give input for 12th Plan (2012-17) on health related issues. "We have appointed Binayak Sen as member of the steering committee on health to advice for 12th Plan. It was Planning Commission's proposal to appoint him," Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia told reporters....
05:53 PM, May 11, 2011
