West Bengal and Maharashtra, despite having fewer public sector employees, are likely to face a higher burden of salaries and pensions.
The textile industry is the second-largest employer in the country, employing about 32 million, and the government is banking on it to absorb millions of youth.
Gujarat and Jharkhand are most favourably placed in terms of smaller share of public sector employees and lower liability on pension, wages and salaries.
There are about 85 million milch cows -- those that produce milk -- in the country.
The survey covered 47,535 households in rural areas and 36,065 households in urban areas.
The review stresses on creating conditions for growth that is employment-friendly.
DD Kisan in the past year has clocked an average direct viewership of 500,000 to 10 million.
Higher interest rates in the US do not necessarily coincide with capital outflows.
The country had imported 5.5 million tonnes of pulses last year.
The Finance Commission has substantially increased the allocation of funds to panchayats, but a large part of it is apportioned by state governments.
Official panel points to bid deficiencies in rural job guarantee, pensions, housing and other programmes.
This time there has been a rather peculiar criticism of the latest GDP numbers.
Small and medium enterprises have been struggling to raise bank credit even as they have been powering India's manufacturing growth in recent years.
Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh (all BJP-ruled), Karnataka, Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Bihar, Assam, West Bengal and Kerala are among the worst performers.
Agriculture and processed food exports dropped to a five-year low of $24 billion in 2015-16.
Wheat will be now be sold to the schemes at Rs 2 per kg, while rice would be given at Rs 3 per kg.
In many parts of central and north India, monsoon reaches only in July.
Skymet is credited with correctly predicting the 2009 drought.
'Now, we have a minimum pension of Rs 1,000 annually.'
For debt-laden companies, asset sales is an obvious solution.
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