Diesel price should be freed, open market grain purchases should be ended.
An upward trend in employment has been continuously observed since July 2009.
IIP-based cumulative industrial output growth during April-December 2010 was 8.6 per cent, on a par with the growth rate of the corresponding months of the previous year, says the Economic Survey 2010-11 which was presented by the Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in the Parliament on Friday.
The Survey points out that the increased Minimum Support Price along with various other steps taken by the Government have resulted in higher levels of food-grains.
Electricity generation during 2011-12 was targetted to increase by 5.4 per cent to 855 billion units.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday said that financial year 2009-10 was ending with clear signs of economic rebound and the growth would rise to about 8.5 per cent in the next fiscal.
India's economic growth could fall to 5.5 per cent this fiscal before seeing gradual recovery next year, a RBI-sponsored survey said.
Indian policymakers are almost alone, alongside the United States, in seeking a hard and multi-sectoral global decoupling from China in the expectation that it will boost their economies, observes Mihir S Sharma.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday called on President Ram Nath Kovind before presenting the Union Budget 2021-22. As per established tradition, the Finance Minister met the President at the Rashtrapati Bhawan before heading to Parliament. The Union Cabinet will meet at 10.15 am to clear the Budget.
Diesel price needs to be revised upward, or subjected to higher taxes, as misuse of subsidized diesel was adding to pollution and public health costs, the government's pre-budget economic report card said on Thursday.
Diesel price needs to be revised upward, or subjected to higher taxes, as misuse of subsidized diesel was adding to pollution and public health costs, the government's pre-budget economic report card said on Thursday.
In the face of sluggish domestic demand and global economic slowdown, Bihar has recorded a staggering growth rate of 11.95 per cent rate annually at constant prices during 11th Five Year Plan, the highest among states.
The PFRDA is engaged in consolidating the initiatives taken so far regarding the full New Pension System and expanding the reach of distribution network.
India's per capita carbon dioxide emissions will increase by nearly three-fold to 3.5 tonnes by 2030, the Economic Survey 2009-10 said on Thursday.
'The actions of Indian monetary authorities will depend on how quickly they want the inflation to come down to 4 per cent.'
Method will be part of this year's Economic Survey; will help investors in relative comparison.
Economic growth slipped to a nine-year low of 6.5 per cent last financial year, but India Inc fears further deceleration in the GDP expansion during 2012-13, shows a survey.
The civil aviation sector is witnessing a number of initiatives
Around 58 per cent of developers expect housing prices to increase this year because of rise in input costs, while 32 per cent builders feel it will remain stable, according to a survey. According to the 'Real Estate Developers Sentiment Survey', by Realtors apex body CREDAI, real estate consultant Colliers India and property research firm Liases Foras, 43 per cent of developers expect residential demand to remain stable in 2023, while 31 per cent feel the demand would increase up to 25 per cent. As many as 341 real estate developers from various parts of the country participated in the joint survey conducted during the last two months.
India may have achieved a teledensity of over 65 per cent, but as many as 62,443 villages are still to get a taste of telecom revolution that started since 1995-96, says the Economic Survey 2010-11.
Capital flows into India this fiscal year have been the highest in the country's history.
The pre-Budget annual report card on the state of the economy, which was tabled in Parliament on Friday, said the capital markets performed well in 2010, with a record quantum of funds raised in the primary market and the highest-ever levels being reached in the secondary market also.
Since March 31, 2022, the PSBs' market cap has risen 43.7 per cent, from Rs. 7.29 trillion to Rs. 10.47 trillion. It's time for the government, the majority owner of public sector banks, to reap the benefit of the rally in bank stocks, recommends Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley talks to T N Ninan.
The IT sector is confronted with a host of issues.
The IT sector is confronted with a host of issues.
On the contrary, India, along with Pakistan and Egypt, figures near the bottom of a table of nations in a survey that ranks them in terms of prosperity. The three countries are better than only Zimbabwe.
Executives in India and China are the most optimistic about sustainability of economic recovery, with six out of ten people reposing their faith on the turnaround in the economy, says a survey.
Sitharaman's Budget missed deficit target for the third year in a row, pushing shortfall to 3.8 per cent of GDP in the current fiscal as compared to 3.3 per cent previously planned.
The government has retained Arvind Subramanian as its chief economic advisor, unlike other American professors Dr Raghuram Rajan and Arvind Panagariya, who quit their jobs as RBI governor and NITI deputy chairman respectively.
In Madhya Pradesh, the C-Voter poll projections gave the BJP 107 seats with a vote share of 41.5 per cent, against Congress' vote share of 42.3 per cent and a simple majority of 116 seats.
Mumbai is one of the most expensive cities of the world along with Hong Kong and Singapore.
Job seekers can look forward to a prosperous new year as more than 850,000 new jobs are expected across various sectors, including FMCG and healthcare, says a survey.
The FM could have been bolder, but this is still a forward-looking Budget.
The first part of the session will conclude on February 11. After a month-long recess, the part two of the session would begin from March 14 and conclude on April 8.
Seeking regulatory reforms in higher education, the Economic Survey has suggested that quality foreign players should be allowed in the sector.
