Fiscal branch

For the first time, the 14th Finance Commission gave forests weightage in determining states' share in the Union tax revenue. Whether this will …

States paid Rs 36.8 cr as interest to panchayats, still don’t transfer funds

Parliamentary standing committee flags off persistent delay in transfer of funds to panchayats but government’s reply have not been convincing

States get bigger share from Central taxes, freedom to restructure programmes

For the first time, finance commission has recommended giving weightage to forest cover of states for devolving funds

UNCCD CoP: Centre unclear how states are spending money allotted for forests

The 14th Finance Commission had given 7.5 per cent weightage to forest cover

Forest conservation receives government recognition

The 14th Finance Commission of India has reinforced the idea of incentivising states for keeping areas under forests

Forget Union budget, track state budgets now

States, already flush with cash surplus of Rs 1.6 lakh crore, will get significantly raised share from the central taxes. Along with this …

Agriculture: wrong prescription for right diagnosis

Finance minister’s decision to increase farm credit corpus and give more autonomy to states for agriculture schemes unlikely to help farmers

Forest depts as nodal agency for community forest resources: A political blunder

The Chhattisgarh government issued an order on May 31, making the state forest department the nodal agency for Community Forest Resource Rights 

Budget 2013-14: provisioning for universal healthcare or moving away from agenda?

The world trend is to move towards public health systems, but developments in India seem to be in the opposite direction

Bihar hopes Union Budget will set right Finance Commission’s ‘wrong’

Finance Commission recommended curtailing funds under Backward Region Grant Fund