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 …

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

Union Budget 2022-23: Just 70 weeks left for India@75 targets, will Modi deliver the ‘New India’

From the promised $4 trillion economy to employment for women to doubling of farmers’ income to poverty eradication this year, most of the …

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 …

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

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

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

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

Mission health for all

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

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

A step-by-step guide on how Union budget is formulated

To start the process, the budget division issues an annual budget circular around the last week of August or the first fortnight of September …

MDG-led healthcare policy not comprehensive, says report

In a Union budget wish list, civil society organisations call for course correction in policy and improving access to healthcare in India

Union Budget: challenges of public provisioning in India

Will the first budget of the 12th Five-Year Plan make a serious effort to plug loopholes in revenue collection and increase spending on social …

New national steel policy in the offing

Policy to propose 14 rail projects, seven road projects and four ports for transportation of minerals

India must focus on rainfed farming

There was a time when it was said that the Indian budget was a gamble on the monsoons. That is not the case any more, with industrial production …

Why India doesn’t need palm oil but its greener alternatives

Palm oil is water-intensive and requires large patches of land

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

Tiger task force seeks people's participation