After missing several deadlines, only 11 states could introduce the plan
The claim is filed with a consumer body.
India staring at first drought in six years.
Just one year after taking office, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is facing a challenge that could come to haunt him.
The size of bilateral trade is only $6 billion a year.
The Budget loosened the reins on public spending to drive growth.
Modi's government sees itself in a sweet spot with spare cash.
India assured the EU it would put in place measures to ensure cargoes are free from pests
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Eminent free market economist Arvind Panagariya has been appointed to run Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's new Policy Commission, set up to modernise economic strategy after decades of Soviet-style central planning.
Arvind Subramanian, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, was informally recommended to the post by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
How far investors will be convinced by Modi's promise to replace red tape with a "red carpet" remains to be seen.
The Obama administration sees India not only as a land of huge potential for expanded business and trade but also as a strategic partner in the face of an increasingly assertive China, whose leader visited Modi in India last week.
India will find it difficult to support new global customs rules without "an assurance and visible outcomes" that a permanent solution is being negotiated over its concerns about public food stockholdings, the trade minister said on Friday.
Indian farmers depend on June-September monsoon rains, as half of the country's farmland lacks irrigation facilities.
George Osborne and British foreign secretary William Hague are on a two-day visit to India to bolster trade and investment ties with Asia's third-largest economy.
India will raise its import duty on sugar to 40 percent from 15 percent, as the government tries to revive business at mills that owe farmers around $1.84 billion, the food minister said on Monday.
The rupee sank below 60 rupees to the dollar and government bonds had their biggest single-day fall in a month on Monday as higher-than-expected May inflation compounded worries about the impact of violence in Iraq on the price of oil, which India imports.
Global experts last week gave the same forecast.
The state is struggling to provide drinking water to thousands of people.
In Jan the country raised the import tax on the yellow metal by 2 percentage points.
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