Arun Maira

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  Corporate Leaders, Academics Commit Rs 300 Crore To Create Next-Gen Business Professionals

  A group of leading business stalwarts, top academics and senior bureaucrats have announced that they will invest Rs 300 Cr to build Masters' Union School of Business, to create the next-gen business professionals for the digital economy.

• Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia Resigns

  Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Saturday resigned while the other members were in the process of putting in their papers.

• Sonia Gandhi Called the Shots on Appointments and Policies: New Book

  After books by a former media adviser to the Prime Minister and a top bureaucrat, a member of the outgoing Planning Commission has added grist to the mill by saying it was Sonia Gandhi who called the shots on all appointments and policies of UPA governments.

• Future growth prospects depend on new government's policies: Planning Commission

  Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Wednesday said growth prospects of the Indian economy will depend on the policies of the new government to be formed next month.

• Planning Commission may not lower 12th Plan growth target: report

  The Planning Commission's internal meeting on Wednesday, to be headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, may not suggest any cut in 8 per cent annual average growth target for the 12th Plan, according to a source, though the economy performed below average in the first two years of this period.

• NMDC to get a full time chairman by year-end: Steel Minister

  National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) will get a full time chairman by the end of the year, Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma said on Thursday.

• People have a wrong idea of what the Planning Commission does: Montek Singh Ahluwalia

  The Planning Commission, along with the National Innovation Council, hosted its first Google Hangout on Friday to communicate the objectives of the 12th Five Year Plan via social media in a bid to increase public participation and engagement in growth and welfare issues.

• Google Hangout with Planning Commission's Montek Singh Ahluwalia, others

  The Planning Commission, along with the National Innovation Council, is hosting its first Google Hangout on the 12th Five-Year Plan.

• Roongta panel report suggests listing of 50 PSUs in 5 years

  The government should look at listing 50 state-owned companies in the next five years, a report by a Planning Commission committee on reforms in Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) has said.

• Arun Maira warns of sub-5 per cent growth

  Planning Commission member Arun Maira today warned that economic growth rate could fall below 5 per cent if there is deep policy and governance paralysis.

• 9-10 per cent GDP growth possible if manufacturing accelerates: Planning Commission

  Indian economy can grow at 9-10 per cent by the end of the 12th Five Year Plan if the coordination and collaboration of stakeholders accelerates the manufacturing sector by 2-4 per cent, Planning Commission member Arun Maira today said.

• CSR will not help society if companies corrupt political brass: Arun Maira

  Spending money on corporate social responsibility activities will not benefit the society if companies make profits by "corrupting" the political brass and damaging the environment, according to Planning Commission Member Arun Maira.

• Anand Sharma to meet govt, industry officials on reviving manufacturing sector tomorrow

  Worried over declining growth of manufacturing, the government has called a high level meeting of central ministries, state government officials as well as industry representatives tomorrow to chalk out strategy for reviving the sector.

• India doesn’t need to announce but implement policies: Arun Maira

  India needs no big announcements now on planning fronts. It needs to implement carefully what has been planned earlier.

• Plan schemes with 10-year vision in mind: Planning Commission

  Planning Commission member Arun Maira on Wednesday advised the city administration to conceptualise new schemes with a 10-year vision for sustained development.