Monetary incentives under Skill India to small entrepreneurs, capital infusion into technology fund to help businesses expand operations
MNREGS labourers are usually engaged in irrigation projects.
Chief economic advisor Arvind Subramanian discusses the Budget, goods and services tax, Centre-state relationship and larger issues facing the economy
Finance ministry's drive is meant to meet fiscal deficit target and improve overall efficiency in government spending.
Ministry considering tax sops for India's first global financial centre, steps to liberalise futures and options markets.
Agri experts are meeting FinMin ministry officials on Monday to give their inputs on the Budget.
For a long time, the Indian economy has been drifting without a credible monetary anchor.
NDDB had helped dairy farmers direct their own development, placing control of the resources they created in their own hands.
For the first time the government is organising an event where consolidated efforts would be made to help start-ups.
Indian farming was transformed after the mid-60s.
The well-irrigated states of Punjab, Haryana, Karnataka, western Uttar Pradesh and coastal states such as Odisha are, for the first time, feeling the effects of a poor monsoon.
Most farmers depend on rainwater for farming.
In India, 173 people defecate in the open for every square km.
There are about 500,000 fair price shops in states and UTs combined.
The Centre has decided to create a buffer stock of 350,000 tonnes.
'We need to do more to accelerate growth.'
The National Democratic Alliance won 64 seats.
Procurement will be done through domestic purchases as well as imports.
Plans to enhance buffer stock to 500,000 tonnes; Gujarat exempts importers from stock limit
Fiscal situation better but spending cuts likely in FY16 too.
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