Cabinet had earlier this week deferred a decision on the much-discussed issue on this ground.
Pronab Sen, principal advisor in the Planning Commission, says that it is difficult to pinpoint the exact GDP number for the current fiscal, as IIP data is questionable and contradicts with exports growth story.
The board has decided to expand into all financial services for the rural population. SKS would, however, continue to be a strong player in the microfinance business. Financial inclusion would continue to be in the centre of our activities.
The second Human Development Report 2011, to be released after a gap of 10 years, paints a dismal picture of the access that rural households have to electricity.
The Planning Commission's de-linking entitlement benefits for the poor from the Suresh Tendulkar committee's recommendation on determination of poverty has left a big question mark on the number of beneficiaries to be covered under the proposed Food Security Act.
Sebi panel to revisit norms for IPOs, mutual funds.
The Planning Commission projected the Centre's fiscal deficit to come down to three per cent of the gross domestic product.
Rains were 26 per cent above normal across the country.
As the country grapples with a string of corruption issues, the approach paper to the 12th Five-Year Plan, which is in final stages of preparation by the Planning Commission, will focus prominently on governance issues.
The wheat procurement season has ended in most big foodgrain-growing states with an all-time high purchase of almost 28 million tonnes (mt), creating a problem of storing such huge stocks.
Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) have returned with a bang. Over the last seven trading sessions, they have pumped in close to $2 billion into Indian equities. Most market players expect this to continue as they see macro headwinds easing.
Officials said the Centre would have to bear an additional subsidy burden of Rs 4,161 crore this financial year, if this proposal was implemented.
Officials from the food ministry said if the situation continued, the country could face a problem of plenty, as grain stocks this year are at a high level of 65 million tonnes (mt), while the total storage space available with the Food Corporation of India and state agencies, both covered and uncovered, is estimated at 63 mt as on June 1.
A big change in the new IIP data, taking 2004-05 as the base year against 1993-94 in the old series, is its classification of items and the weights assigned to these.
New census will include questions about religion and castes.
Domestic institutional shareholders, who together hold around 39 per cent stake in the National Stock Exchange, are unhappy with the exchange's strategy of not charging transaction fees in the currency derivative segment.
The data, to be compiled by the ministry of statistics and programme implementation, will bring out the proportion of population actively contributing to production of goods and services, also known as the labour force participation ratio, every quarter.
Economy grew by 8.6 per cent in 2010-11.
The reservations of Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on the projected additional electricity generation capacity of 100,000 Mw during the 12th Five-Year Plan (2012-17) period has failed to cut much ice with the Planning Commission.
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