Recently, the government announced yet another ambitious scheme aimed at providing health insurance to 50 crore individuals.
The number of management colleges has dropped from 3,609 in 2014-15 to 3,264 in 2017-18.
The highest number of jobs were created in the age group of 18-21 at 1.29 million, followed by 22-25 years of age at 1.12 million during these seven months.
With 103 members belonging to the BJP, the Karnataka assembly will witness a balance it has never seen.
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Despite the growing clamour from the central government on India turning digital, and banks requesting direct bank account transfer, the state government decided to hand over cheques to the farmers, which can be immediately converted into cash.
With the creation of the state of Telangana, additions were made to ToRs of the 14th Finance Commission to make recommendations for the newly created states after the reorganisation of Andhra Pradesh.
T C A Anant, former chief statistician to the government, will soon be heading a panel to decide whether the monthly payroll data released by EPFO, ESIC and PFRDA could replace the quarterly enterprises-based survey on job creation by the labour bureau, the prime minister's office decided last week.
The RBI fell short of pumping Rs 150 billion into the economy at the beginning of 2018-2019.
'The current crisis is a result of a clash between a coercive attempt by the government to justify demonetisation and rising digital transactions against the market and the economy fighting the unexpected pressure from atop.'
Income velocity based on currency with the public went down from 0.93 in October to 0.84 in March says a report from SBI's economic research department
Many PSBs are in the process of rationalisation of ATMs
Third of faculty positions vacant. One per cent seats empty. New institutes lag in infrastructure, research.
With certain quarters demanding privatisation of public sector banks in the aftermath of the alleged fraud at Punjab National Bank (PNB), Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister chairman Bibek Debroy tells Sanjeeb Mukherjee, Ishan Bakshi and Indivjal Dhasmana that reducing government equity even to zero would not mean giving up of government control over these banks.
Infrastructure, stricter implementation boost commercial vehicle sales
Four Canadian ministers of Indian origin are traveling with Prime Minister Trudeau.
This could be the reason why Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned tomato, onion, and potato as his government's 'TOP' priority, in an election rally on February 5 in poll-bound Karnataka.
The 14th Finance Commission had recommended that states' share in the divisible tax pool be raised to 42 per cent, from 32 per cent earlier.
The budgeted indirect tax collection target is Rs 9.26 trillion, and the Centre has collected around Rs 5 trillion in the first 8 months. So it needs another Rs 4.2 trn in the last four months
Lower revenue collection puts upward pressure on government borrowing, ensuring that it deviates from the glided path of debt reduction
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