Our railway ministers pass the buck on safety and how!

For Indian Railways safety is not necessarily a systemic issue but something it attends to only on a case-by-case basis. If accidents were not to happen, the thought of safety would not arise, says......

'There is a lot of scope for NREGA works'

Many regard the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, the flagship welfare programme as the best scheme of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government. The act aims at enhancing the......

Flaws in Modi's rural development plans

Official panel points to bid deficiencies in rural job guarantee, pensions, housing and other programmes. Wage payment delays are a distressing feature of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural......

New PlanCom might alter focus, structure of Centre's schemes

Schemes are proposed to become an amalgam of priorities laid down by statesThe new body to replace the five-decade-old  Planning Commission is expected to be structurally different from the......

Modi to bat for rejig of welfare schemes

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s economic agenda, to be unveiled on February 27 by its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, is likely to keep a push for big infrastructure projects and......

No restraint on revenue deficit yet

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee may have earned plaudits for projecting a decline in the fiscal deficit to 5.5 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) for 2010-11, but his targets for revenue......