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Wind Energy Projects to be provided incentives and Funding under National Clean Energy Fund

Generation-Based Incentive for Wind Energy Projects Announced The Government is proposing to provide Rs. 800 crore for the Ministry of New & Renewable Energy for generation-based incentive for wind energy projects as the non-conventional wind energy sector deserves incentives. Shri Chidambarm hinted at evolving a scheme to encourage cities and municipalities to take-up waste-to-energy projects… Read More

Direct Benefit Transfer Scheme to be Rolled out throughout the Country

Direct Benefit Transfer Scheme to be Rolled out throughout the Country: Government Ensures Aapka Paisa Aapke Haath to the Poor Government is determined to plug in the leakages in the implementation of developmental programmes meant for the poor and the deprived of the country. To achieve this, the Government, which made a modest and cautious… Read More

National Rural & Urban Livelihood Missions to pull out all stops for achieving the skill development of 5 Cr people

Government to Pull Out all Stops to Achieve the Objective of Skilling 50 Million People ; Youth to be Targeted and Motivated Government will release funds through National Rural Livelihood Mission and the National Urban Livelihood Mission to achieve the ambitious target of skilling 50 million people in the Twelfth Plan period including 9 million… Read More

Nearly 30% Hike in Plan Expenditure for 2013-14, Overarching Goal of Budget is to Create Job Opportunities for Youth

The Finance Minister Shri P.Chidambaram has announced that the plan expenditure in 2013-14 will be 29.4 percent more than the revised estimate of the current year. He said that anticipating a global and domestic recovery, total expenditure had been fixed at Rs. 14,90,925 crore but due to the slowdown and the austerity measures, the revised… Read More

FM to discuss Budget ’13-’14 with thought Leaders and Respond to Citizens’ Questions on his First Google+ Hangout

The Union Finance Minister Shri P. Chidambaram will respond to citizens' questions on the Union Budget 2013-14 tomorrow (4th March 2013) at 8:00 pm IST by joining the multiparty video conference on Google+ Hangout. This is for the First time that any Union Cabinet Minister is using this medium to interact with the citizens and… Read More

A PPP Policy Framework with Coal India to be Devised to Increase Coal Production

The Finance Minister, P Chidambaram in his Budget speech in Lok Sasbha today said that In the medium to long term, we must reduce our dependence on imported coal. One of the ways forward is to devise a PPP policy framework, with coal India Limited as one of the partners, in order to increase the… Read More

Railways encouraging Private Investments in Building Rail Infrastructure

Railways encourage private investments in building rail infrastructure. A new policy for building and strengthening rail connectivity and capacity augmentation has recently been announced. Some of the other areas where railways encourage private investments are development of Private Freight Terminals, Procurement and Leasing of Wagons, Operations of container trains, redevelopment of stations, Loco & Coach… Read More

GoI considering lowering of juvenile age bar and other child rights issues

The Government, in the Ministry of Women and Child Development has held consultations with the child right experts/activists on various issues, including lowering the age bar for juveniles. The Government, in the Ministry of Home Affairs have constituted a committee of eminent jurists under the Chairmanship of Justice (Retd.) J.S. Verma, former Chief Justice of… Read More

Minister of Tourism Proposes Extension of Visa on Arrival Scheme to 16 more countries

Union Tourism Minister Shri K Chiranjeevi met the Union Home Minister Sri Sushilkumar Shinde here today and submitted a proposal to extend Visa-on-arrivals to 16 more countries. The Ministry of Tourism strongly felt that the Tourist Visa on Arrival (TVOA) facility for those countries, which are potential source markets to India and where there have… Read More

MoC Speak :: Low Rate Weaver Loans to be Game Changer, Proposes New Comprehensive Integrated Handloom Cluster Scheme for 5000 Handlooms

The Union Minister for Commerce, Industry & Textiles Shri Anand Sharma has welcomed the announcements made by the Finance Minister on textiles sector in his Budget Speech yesterday. Shri Sharma, while delivering the keynote address during the one-day conference on National Consultation on Handloom sector, here today said that the announcement for providing fresh working… Read More

Schemes launched under the National Mission for Establishing and Modernising Food Processing Industries

Ministry of Food Processing Industries had launched a Centrally Sponsored Scheme - National Mission on Food Processing (NMFP) during 2012-13 ’the first year of the 12th Five Year Plan. The basic objective of NMFP is decentralization of implementation of the schemes, leading to substantial participation of State Governments/UTs. The NMFP will significantly enhance Ministry™s outreach… Read More

Scheme for Filling gaps in Supply Chain and Strengthening Cold Chain Infrastructure

The Ministry of Food Processing Industries provides financial assistance in the form of grant-in-aid @ 50% of the total cost of plant and machinery and technical civil works in general areas, and @ 75% of the total cost of plant and machinery and technical civil works in difficult areas subject to a maximum of Rs.10.00… Read More

GoI notifies the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Policy, 2012 for Controlling Prices of Life Saving Drugs

The Government has notified the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Policy, 2012 (NPPP-2012) where it has also been proposed to regulate and control the prices of National List of Essential Medicines 2011. In order to provide relief to the common man in the area of healthcare, a countrywide campaign in the name of ˜Jan Aushadhi Campaign™ was… Read More