Government Rural Push

Liquidity push to expand medical infrastructure, direct cash credits and free food grains will keep rural India growth story intact.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while presenting the union budget, said today that the government will invest widely in agriculture infrastructure and support private entrepreneurship for value addition in farm sector.

Real gross domestic product growth for the fiscal year started April 1 is projected at 7 per cent, government said in its Economic Survey report.

In order to enable more merchants to accept digital payment, especially in the rural areas of the country, the government launched the common service centres (CSC).

The Central government will on Saturday launch a country-wide LPG Panchayat as a backup to the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana to distribute LPG connections among the rural areas where conventional fuel is used for domestic purposes, an official said.

The government today said that the new 500 and 2,000-rupee notes have been completely designed in house and so their security features are very secure.

The chamber said focus should be on sectors like roads and highways, ports, railway, telecom infrastructure, irrigation, flood control and rural upliftment programmes.

With the government pushing farmers and the rural population to open bank accounts in the wake of the currency ban, the situation at this bank in rural Uttar Pradesh, however, has not improved even after 20 days since the cash ban was announced.

A new save power push for rural India was launched by Power Minister Piyush Goyal in Andhra Pradesh's Vijayawada today. Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu was also be present on the occasion.

It sees the government increasing its deficit target for 2016-17 to 3.9 per cent of GDP to push rural demand and pay higher wages.

In an effort to boost the state's power sector, Bihar cabinet today approved 16 schemes aimed at ensuring electricity supply in rural areas, renovation and expansion of thermal power stations and better control of power grids.

To push through the 10 per cent stake sale of MOIL in the current fiscal year, the government has started the process of appointing merchant bankers for the disinvestment which could fetch around Rs 500 crore to the exchequer.

During its 10-year-long reign, the Congress-led UPA government focussed intensively on welfare schemes like the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, and, more recently, the National Food Security Act.

New Delhi plans to directly transfer cash payments for subsidies into these accounts, a move aimed at tackling graft in India's creaky, corruption-ridden public distribution system. If successful, the initiative could also bring modern banking to the doorstep of rural India, a goal towards which progress has so far been fitful despite mandatory tar...

Liquidity push to expand medical infrastructure, direct cash credits and free food grains will keep rural India growth story intact.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while presenting the union budget, said today that the government will invest widely in agriculture infrastructure and support private entrepreneurship for value addition in farm sector.

Real gross domestic product growth for the fiscal year started April 1 is projected at 7 per cent, government said in its Economic Survey report.

In order to enable more merchants to accept digital payment, especially in the rural areas of the country, the government launched the common service centres (CSC).

The Central government will on Saturday launch a country-wide LPG Panchayat as a backup to the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana to distribute LPG connections among the rural areas where conventional fuel is used for domestic purposes, an official said.

The government today said that the new 500 and 2,000-rupee notes have been completely designed in house and so their security features are very secure.

The chamber said focus should be on sectors like roads and highways, ports, railway, telecom infrastructure, irrigation, flood control and rural upliftment programmes.

With the government pushing farmers and the rural population to open bank accounts in the wake of the currency ban, the situation at this bank in rural Uttar Pradesh, however, has not improved even after 20 days since the cash ban was announced.

A new save power push for rural India was launched by Power Minister Piyush Goyal in Andhra Pradesh's Vijayawada today. Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu was also be present on the occasion.

It sees the government increasing its deficit target for 2016-17 to 3.9 per cent of GDP to push rural demand and pay higher wages.

In an effort to boost the state's power sector, Bihar cabinet today approved 16 schemes aimed at ensuring electricity supply in rural areas, renovation and expansion of thermal power stations and better control of power grids.

To push through the 10 per cent stake sale of MOIL in the current fiscal year, the government has started the process of appointing merchant bankers for the disinvestment which could fetch around Rs 500 crore to the exchequer.

During its 10-year-long reign, the Congress-led UPA government focussed intensively on welfare schemes like the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, and, more recently, the National Food Security Act.

New Delhi plans to directly transfer cash payments for subsidies into these accounts, a move aimed at tackling graft in India's creaky, corruption-ridden public distribution system. If successful, the initiative could also bring modern banking to the doorstep of rural India, a goal towards which progress has so far been fitful despite mandatory tar...