Infrastructure plays a crucial role for not just the country’s economic growth but also its progress in human development. Rural areas account for a larger part of the geographical area in India.

Foreign investment in India has two components, viz., Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and foreign portfolio investment. According to the notion referred to globally, FDI relates to a long-term relationship with ‘lasting interest’ of the foreign direct investor in the country where such FDI takes place.

Fiscal Deficit refers to a gap in government’s budget; a gap that arises in any financial year when the government’s total expenditure exceeds its total income in that year and consequently it borrows money to cover that gap.

There has been an intense debate within the academia and the policy circles on the estimates of poverty in India as provided by the government sources.

The recently concluded survey on employment and unemployment (EUS) situation in India, 2011-12, conducted by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO), has revealed reduced female engagement in paid economic activities, specifically in the rural areas.

The rise and fall of the value of a currency vis-a-vis other currencies is a normal development in an interconnected global economy.

Given the persistence of poverty, hunger and malnutrition in the country, it is commendable that the Union Cabinet approved promulgation of an ordinance to implement the National Food Security Bill and it has been signed by the President of India.

Transparency in Goverment Budgets_Bombay Chambers of Commerce

Patari se utarta bal kalyan karykram

सार्वजनिक-निजी भागीदारी या निजीकरण 2day, April, 2013

Two institutions that play a key role in influencing the scope of budgetary spending by the Union Government and
State Governments are Planning Commission and Finance Commission.

Thoda hai Jyada ki Jarurat-Dainik Jagrna