National Institute Of Public Finance

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  Electricity Demand Falls For Fourth Straight Month

  Electricity demand fell to 94.60 billion units in November, from 98.84 billion units during the same period last year.

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  Crisis Shadow On India's Economy, Predicts Member Of PM Modi's Think Tank

  The Indian economy is running the risk of a structural crisis, and could soon be ensnared in a "middle-income trap", eventually becoming like Brazil or South Africa, according to Rathin Roy, member of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council and Director of National Institute of Public Finance and Policy.

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  Finance Ministry Told To Make Reports On Black Money Public

  The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Economic Affairs has directed the Union Finance Ministry to make separate reports on black money filed by three research institutes -- the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, National Institute of Financial Management and the National Council of Applied Economic Research -- available to the publi...

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  Why A Government Think Tank Says Notes Ban May Not End Black Money Menace

  Three years ago, the National institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), a think tank under the Finance Ministry, prepared a report for the government on the scale of black or untaxed money in the Indian economy.

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  India Needs To Go For Rapid Urbanisation In Next 2 Decades: Arun Jaitley

  Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday stressed on India's need to urbanise rapidly in the next two decades in line with its present development in order to relieve the pressure on agriculture.

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  Government Taking Effective Steps to Tackle Black Money: Union Minister Jayant Sinha

  The government today said it's taking effective steps to deal with black money and will focus on high-impact cases with a view to prosecuting offenders expeditiously for credible deterrence against tax evasion.

• Opinion: For Black Money, Look in India, Not Switzerland

  The study, presented to the Finance Minister and the newly-set up SIT on black money, says the extent of unaccounted money generated in today's globalised Indian economy could go upto 71 per cent of India's GDP.

• Opinion: For Black Money, Look in India, Not Switzerland

  Examine political parties, gold and real estate, writes MK Venu.

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  Finance Ministry study to assess quantum of black money complete

  Three institutes-- Delhi-based National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) and National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), and National Institute of Financial Management (NIFM) in Faridabad, Haryana--were roped in by the Finance Ministry to complete their task within 18 months' time.

• Stubborn retail inflation may spoil rate cut hopes

  India's consumer inflation likely eased for a third straight month in May but remained high enough to be a headache for the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), which is under pressure to cut rates again in its policy review next week after headline wholesale inflation cooled.

• Repco Home initial public offer subscribed 1.62 times

  The Rs 270-crore initial public offer of Repco Home Finance was oversubscribed on the last day of the issue on Friday.

• Bringing down subsidies below 2% not easy, says FICCI panel

  A FICCI panel said bringing down subsidies below 2 per cent of GDP in 2012-13 from the existing 2.4 per cent level will not be an easy task.

• NBCC IPO subscribed 19%; Godrej Prop share sale fully covered

  National Buildings Construction Corporation's initial public offer was subscribed 19 per cent on the first day of the issue Thursday.