Category Archives: Governance Reforms

India is likely to achieve a much improved agriculture production in most cereals compared to last year as per an announcement by Agriculture Minister. Although bumper record for rice and overall food grain production is still retained for the year … Continue reading →

In an innovation to collect data directly and immediately from the schools on status of the Mid-day meal schemes for each of the state’s 1.5 lakh schools, UP has come out with an innovative monitoring system. On a daily basis … Continue reading →

For most cities in India, 24×7 water supplies remains a dream. Karnataka Urban Infrastructure Development & Finance Corporation has successfully experimented with such a water supply scheme in Hubli-Dharwad, Gulbarga & Belgaum. Now the corporation is further experimenting involving a … Continue reading →

Is the NREGS, GoI’s major flagship programme, likely to result in another colossal wastage? Data available with the Govt, indicates that total number of works undertaken under the scheme number to 6.8 million (m) as on date. However out of … Continue reading →

NREGS has entered into 6th year. The scheme can only boast of partial success, as it is, like all government schemes, been marred with diversion of funds, false claims, and other malpractices. Presently a debate is on, on how to … Continue reading →

One of the criticisms of the GDP oriented growth has been that it creates disparity as the growth benefits mainly the rich. In this regard Gujarat has launched a programme to connect over 10 lakh rural jobs to industrial projects … Continue reading →

SOCIAL SECTOR – Plan to spend Rs 1.6 lakh crore on social projects, up 17 percent – 11th plan expenditure up 100% in nominal terms – India Microfinance Equity Fund of Rs 100 crores to support small MFIs – NABARD … Continue reading →

Presently there are number of attempts to reform Public Delivery system. One such attempt is being made in Bihar to reform PDS. Further each PDS shop now has to transfer funds directly to the Bihar State Food Corporation’s account. Coupled … Continue reading →

National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), a Reserve Bank of India backed non-profit company; yesterday launched a first-of-its-kind, 24-hour Interbank Mobile Payment system (IMPS) that would allow bank customers in the country to remit money to any other bank account … Continue reading →

Usage of mobiles for providing healthcare at very reasonable prices has emerged as one of the initiatives that GoI would like to further exploit. At the India Economic Summit currently being held in one of the sessions, it was stated … Continue reading →