Control over PSU banks is what is allowing the government to drive this scheme.
While the government has claimed significant increase in funds for farm credit, PMKSY and PKVY, facts show a different story.
Creating many more half-decent jobs for the 10 million plus new entrants to the labour force each year must surely constitute the primary development challenge for India today.
In the not too distant future, you could see 5G technology being used for functions such as remotely-performed robotic surgeries, mine equipment operated remotely or cars driven by someone sitting hundreds of miles away. While these ideas will certainly find application globally, the urgent need for them in India could spur swifter adoption here than elsewhere.
India only has 3.5 million workers undergoing skills courses a year, compared with 90 million in China
India on Thursday pitched for unleashing the "collective strength" of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation as External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj underlined the need for a South Asian Economic Union with greater connectivity and forward movement on pending agreements on rail and motor vehicles.
When big offers hit the market, broader indices corrected 2-4%
Corporate affairs ministry sending notices seeking details of fund disbursal
An NSSO survey has revealed that some are using the new toilets as store rooms.
EduBridge is emerging as a strong player in training unemployed youth.
'While the poor have little say in shaping India's intellectual or public discourse, they do have a significant role in deciding political outcomes,' points out Roshan Kishore.
How has the note ban affected newspapers and the rest of the media?
HUL has achieved few milestones in the fiscal gone by and hence is performing good on revenues front.
Modi asked bureaucrats to imagine whether or not their life has become "robotic". "If it has happened than this impacts the whole government and system. We can't be robotic. That can't be our life," the prime minister said during an hour-long interaction with civil servants at the 9th Civil Services Day function at Vigyan Bhawan.
Every 30 seconds its website is connected to an SME for a loan, every five minutes it evaluates a loan, and every 20 minutes it disburses a loan.
While there is no denying that certain sections of the community deserve aid, the politics of reservation can be suicidal for India.
President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday gave away Gandhi Peace Prize 2014 to ISRO in recognition of its services in transforming India through the use of space technology.
On International Yoga Day, South Delhi-based yoga teacher Saudamini Chandra found herself shepherding the young girl students to their first taste of India's heritage that was being celebrated across the world. This is her experience.
There is discrimination against women in insurance cover. As a flood of insurance companies tap the capital markets with public issues, there is however, hardly any reference to this asymmetry. Subhomoy Bhattacharjee reports
While Raju and Brijesh Saroj have found help from the Uttar Pradesh government as well as the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Zahid Qureshi is struggling to make ends meet.
Demonetisation, Donald Trump's surprise victory in the US presidential elections, and the fear that US Fed may hike rates in the upcoming policy review in December have dented market sentiments, report Puneet Wadhwa & Deepak Korgaonkar.
'These are challenging times and we get energised by that.' 'I don't feel that 'I am tired now and I should relax', because even if someone calls us at 12 o'clock I have to answer his call.'
Businesses that either take local communities for granted or see them as an obstacle to be 'managed' are skating on thin ice.
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Charles 'Biharilal' Thomson, an Australian who speaks fluent Hindi, on how India has bewitched him.
'That is not a democratic ideal obviously, but it is a practical reality.' 'It is a consistent feature of politicians in Pakistan that their rhetoric on the army softens the closer they get to the seat of power.'
Anshu Gupta, the founder of Goonj, has transformed the culture of giving in the country. He has for 15 years now, worked tirelessly to bridge the gap between the haves and the have-nots, by making discarded materials a resource for the poor. His weapon, he says, is 'cloth as a tool of social change.'
'The BJP has been wooing him for quite some time.' 'But he didn't join the BJP; he started his own party.' 'Remember he has Hindus, Muslims and Christians as his fans.' 'He will never antagonise any of his fans.'
'Four years into his tenure and Modi still has no idea what is wrong with the agriculture sector!'
'We are looking at the Budget with the hope that it will address all issues even at the cost of exceeding the fiscal deficit target.'
With the advent of new banks, IT firms will get boostto their businesses.
For India's leading MFI-turned bank, the challenge is to stay competitive while pricing its loans
Smartly blending its development agenda with Hindutva politics, the BJP has not lost assembly elections in the state since 1995.
From banking to teaching, the list covers all.
FII stance, progress of monsoon, crude oil and rupee movement are likely to dictate the trend.
Gandhi accused BJP of re-inaugurating projects launched by the UPA dispensation.
Nitin Desai suggests some concrete measures to revive investment and boost growth.
'If a major earthquake of the kind that hit Nepal hits us in Delhi, 35 per cent of our homes would be destroyed.'
Medha is an organisation created with the idea of bringing in better employment opportunities and life for educated youth.
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