India is ranked the lowest in water usage efficiency in the world. It has little control over wastewater management, whereas, in other countries, surplus water is reused.
Tag: Niti Aayog
There should be no road tax on electric vehicles: Amitabh Kant
New Delhi, NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant on Friday said there should be no road tax on electric vehicles to bring the ownership cost of electronic vehicles at par with combustion vehicles. He said the NITI Aayog has suggested the states do away with road tax and issue green permits[Read More…]
3 large Hindi-speaking states have high fertility rates: UNFPA
There is a stark contrast between the fertility rates of the three largest Hindi-speaking states and six non-Hindi-speaking states even as India was nearing the population replacement level of fertility, a UN report shows. “Although average total fertility (rate) for the whole country is 2.3 births per woman, it is[Read More…]
Raghuram Rajan responsible for India’s declining economy: Niti Aayog VC Rajiv Kumar
Niti Aayog Vice Chairman blamed former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan for the drastic slowdown of Indian economy. Rajiv Kumar said that “his policies led to industries not receiving credits from banks.” Days after the GDP growth rate for the first quarter of 2018-19 was pegged at the highest in three[Read More…]
Fact Check: UPA had approved ISRO’s plan of sending a manned mission into space in 2009
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced ‘Mission Gaganyaan’ in his fourth and last speech of this term during his Independence Day speech from the Red Fort. He vowed to unfurl the Indian flag in space by 2022. The mission to send a man into space is named, ‘Mission Gaganyaan’. Although this[Read More…]
India’s energy deficit down to 1% in four years: NITI Aayog
New Delhi: The installed power generation capacity in India has risen to 344 GigaWatts (GW) and its energy deficit, which stood at over 4 per cent in 2014, has shrunk to less than one per cent in 2018, an official release said on Wednesday. NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant made[Read More…]
Ayushman Bharat: PM Modi reviews preparations for launch of health assurance scheme
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday reviewed the progress of the launch of the Health Assurance scheme under Ayushman Bharat. The scheme will provide health assurance cover of up to Rs 5 lakh per family and will cover over 10 crore poor and vulnerable families. An official release[Read More…]
J&K’s Kupwara least improved; 9 Bihar districts among bottom 20: NITI Aayog
New Delhi: Among the 108 most backward districts across the country, Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara has shown the least improvement while Gujarat’s Dahod has shown the most, the NITI Aayog said on Friday. Releasing the first delta ranking of the most backward districts in the country — which the NITI[Read More…]
With 90% tax on petrol & diesel, bringing them under GST impractical: NITI Aayog Vice Chairman
New Delhi: Petroleum is the taxation milch cow for the central and the state governments and it is unlikely to be brought under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) any time soon. That’s also the view of the Vice Chairman of Niti Aayog, Rajiv Kumar. Several senior ministers have demanded[Read More…]
Tejashwi Yadav slams NITI Aayog chief over Bihar remark
Patna: Bihar opposition leader Tejashwi Yadav on Tuesday slammed NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant’s statement blaming the state for India’s backwardness, saying the remark has exposed the mindset of “babus” in the Modi-led government. “Bihar and Bihari’s pay equal taxes, contribute equally or more to governance and nation-building. Bihar gave 33[Read More…]
Wrong to compare household, government budgets: Niti Aayog
New Delhi: Decrying the economic orthodoxy in India handed down from Europe of cutting fiscal deficits to balance budgets, Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar on Sunday called for new definitions to be adopted for government expenditure and described as fallacious the comparisons made between household and national budgets. Speaking at[Read More…]
Rajiv Kumar takes over as vice-chairman of Niti Aayog
Renowned economist, Rajiv Kumar on Friday took over as the vice-chairman of government think tank Niti Aayog. Kumar replaced Arvind Panagariya, an Indian-American economist. Panagariya left the think tank on Thursday to return to academic world. Kumar was a senior fellow at the Centre for Policy Research (CPR) and holds[Read More…]
PM Modi praises Arvind Panagariya’s work at Niti Aayog
The Prime Minister on Tuesday commended Aayog vice chairman Arvind Panagariya for his leadership and wished him the best for his future. Speaking at Niti Aayog’s “Champions of Change” programme, Modi said the nation will remember Panagariya’s service at the helm of the organisation which replaced the erstwhile Planning Commission.[Read More…]
Renowned economist Rajiv Kumar to be new vice chairman of NITI Aayog
Renowned economist Rajiv Kumar was named as the new vice chairman of NITI Aayog on Saturday night. This comes four days after Arvind Panagariya resigned from the post. Kumar will report directly to Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, who is the chairperson of NITI Aayog. Rajiv Kumar, who holds a DPhil in[Read More…]
Niti Aayog vice-chairman, Arvind Panagariya announces his resignation
Arvind Panagariya, the first vice-chairman of Niti Aayog, announced his resignation from office on Tuesday. 31 August is likely to be his last working day in Niti Aayog. Panagariya was considered to be Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal pick for economic reforms. Though the exact reasons behind his resignation is[Read More…]
Only 10% farmer benefit from loan waiver: NITI Aayog
Government think-tank NITI Aayog said that even as states like Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka announced loan waiver to farmers, it barely helps just 10% of those in need. According to Hindustan Times reports, pitching for “targeted relief rather than blanket loan waivers”, Prof Ramesh Chand, a member at the[Read More…]
Government to corporatise autonomous universities; IIMC to merge with JNU or Jamia
The state-owned institutes such as the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute and the Delhi Public Library, are on the verge of being corporatised. While the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) will be merging with either the Jawaharlal Nehru University or[Read More…]
Unemployment is the lesser of India’s problems: NITI Aayog
While the opposition has criticised the Modi government for rising unemployment in the country; government policy think-tank NITI Aayog said in a report that not unemployment but “severe underemployment” is a more serious problem for India. In its draft action report that covers fiscal 2018 to 2020, the NITI Aayog[Read More…]
No plan to impose any tax on agricultural income: FM
India to grow over 3-fold by 2030: NITI Aayog
CM K Palaniswami raises NEET, Cauvery issues at Niti Aayog meeting
Chief Minister K Palaniswami on Monday said that he has raised issued, insisting on the exclusion of NEET test at the Niti Aayog meeting held in Delhi headed by PM Modi on Sunday. Notably, Tamil Nadu has been resisting the National Entrance Cum Eligibility Test (NEET) for MBBS and BDS[Read More…]
NITI Aayog to chair consultations on strategic disinvestment tomorrow: Sources
NITI Aayog vice chairman Arvind Panagariya, along with administrative ministries, will decide the fate of seven Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) on strategic disinvestment on Thursday, sources said. Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) are those companies in which the direct holding of the Central Government or other CPSEs is 51%[Read More…]
Maharashtra most farmer friendly state, says NITI Aayog Index
According to NITI Aayog index on reforms in the farm sector, Maharashtra topped as the most farmer friendly state in the country followed by Gujarat and Rajasthan. “The state of Maharashtra achieves first rank in implementation of various reforms. The state has implemented most of the marketing reforms and it[Read More…]
Forward planning: NITI Aayog targets 50 medals in 2024 Olympics
After a lacklustre performance at the Rio Olympics, government think tank ‘NITI Aayog’ has come up with a strategy to help the country achieve 50 medals at the 2024 Games. India sent more than 120 athletes to Rio de Janeiro with hopes of exceeding the six medals won at London[Read More…]
Niti Aayog suggests doing away with Rail Budget
The NDA government is seeking the opinion of the railway ministry on scrapping presentation of the annual Railway Budget. In a 20-page note to the Prime Minister’s Office, Niti Aayog argued the exercise has failed to come of any use to the sector and has become a “mechanism to announce[Read More…]