Bibek Debroy on the state of the States

One year after the fiscal devolution, a reality check with Member of the Niti Aayog, Bibek Debroy

NITI Aayog begins business without action plan

Will the Aayog's vision be any different than the top-down approach of its predecessor, the Planning Commission? 

Health goals of 11th Five-Year Plan unmet. 12th Plan hopes to achieve them

Planning Commission's working group recommends repeating last Plan targets in the 12th Plan

India to bid adieu to Five Year Plans

The country will still have Plan documents but they would not adhere to a five year time period

Nutrition and affirmative action: The twain shall meet

A lot could be done for making ICDS responsive and impactful for the Dalit children. However, there are multiple design and operational flaws

Centre’s agriculture scheme completed only 62% projects in 6 years

CAG report reveals Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojna, launched to increase agricultural productivity, contains no method to evaluate the …

Complete muff-up

MoEF falls far short of tenth Five Year Plan targets

Planning Commission's new toilets: lessons for us

Miles to go

Budget offers big push for rural infrastructure

Green transportation gets lip service

PPP is the way forward to improve healthcare in India: McKinsey

Union health minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad, endorses affordable healthcare through private sector

Urban India's deprived lot

India is becoming dominantly urban, and the urban poor, who are increasing in numbers, face exclusion from basic amenities like safe drinking …

Tiger task force seeks people's participation

Need to scale up power availability in farms up to 2kw/ha: Sharad Pawar

It will increase farm mechanisation and help achieve projected demand of 280 million tonnes foodgrains by 2020

Mixed signals for vehicles, transportation

SUVs to be expensive but not diesel cars

Thermal power generation set to expand six times

What it means

India's National Action Plan on Climate Change needs desperate repair

India's National Action Plan on Climate Change has been slow to start and its sectoral missions are not aligned with the schemes the government …

‘Clean Ganga and Yamuna mission a failure’

Parliamentary panel says that not involving people living on the banks of the river is the reason for it

Jatropha plantation policy has gaping holes

National Water Resources Council approves water policy

Centre will not encroach upon state’s rights, says Prime Minister

Mission health for all

What prime minister needs to do to make good his promise on making 12th Five-Year Plan a health plan

Government must pay for healthcare at point of use: WHO expert

India looks to reduce out-of-pocket expenditure on health in 12th Plan

Planning Commission push to health care privatisation

Draft 12th Five Year Plan proposes contracting-in and PPP in public health services

Is the government going to scrap the 12th Five Year Plan?

Experts feel this move will erode the gains and lessons learnt from the most inclusive plan so far

Budget 2013: the path remains the same