The ministry has also decided to offer station for redevelopment by inviting open bids from companies.
The official India Meteorological Department (IMD) and the private Skymet Weather Services have made widely divergent monsoon forecasts.
The focus is on tapping all resources, even foreign agencies.
Government's fuel subsidy estimate was based on crude oil at $70.
Total area impacted across India pegged at 18.9 mn hectares.
IMD will present its month-wise and region-wise forecast in June.
'There is no mechanism to understand how things would evolve'.
Harassment, corruption and the burden of compound interest for years are also the reasons.
Millions of central government employees were taken for a ride on April Fool's Day.
The growth, however, may not indicate a major revival of economic activity.
Planning Commission had got into a big controversy on this issue.
The perspective planning division might get a new lease of life.
Pooling will also kick-start projects of Reliance Power, Torrent, Lanco.
Inviting private sector in Indian Railways is a good idea.
The number of infrastructure projects cleared by a monitoring group set up in the Cabinet Secretariat had increased consistently in the past year.
The resentment against the government has increased.
We should improve the business climate in Mumbai and Delhi, and India's ranking would immediately shoot up, says Bibek Debroy, a full member of NITI Aayog.
Any such acquisition, if at all, should only be in exceptional cases
The Budget shouldn't be stuck on fiscal numbers, the PMO apparently said.
Empowered in the Modi government, junior ministers have enough on their plate.
