Allocations for various schemes under the Union Budget 2016-17,(please click here to access) • Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme – Rs. 38,500 crore (BE) • National Social Assistance Programme – Rs. 9,500 crore (BE) • Schemes under Tribal Sub-Plan- across all Ministries – Rs. 24,005 crore (BE) • Schemes under Scheduled Castes Sub-Plan- across all Ministries…
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According to the Union Budget Speech 2015-16 delivered by Arun Jaitley (Please click here to download) on 28 February, 2015: Irrigation The Budget provided for allocation of Rs. 5,300 crore to support micro-irrigation, watershed development and the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana.The Minister urged the States to chip in substantially in this vital sector. Micro…
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According to the Union Budget Speech 2014-15 delivered by Arun Jaitley (Please click here to download) on 10 July, 2014: Swatchh Bharat Abhiyan Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana RURAL DEVELOPMENT Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana MGNREGA National Livelihood Mission Rural Housing Watershed Development Panchayati Raj Safe Drinking Water Women & Child Development Beti Bachao, Beti…
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According to the Budget Speech 2013-14 delivered by P Chidambaram, http://indiabudget.nic.in/ub2013-14/bs/bs.pdf: • In 2012-13, the CSO has estimated growth at 5 percent while the RBI has estimated growth at 5.5 percent. • The estimate of Plan Expenditure is placed at Rs. 5,55,322 crore. As a proportion of total expenditure (Rs. 16,65,297 crore), it will be 33.3 percent….
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According to Social Protection for a Changing India (May, 2011), The World Bank, http://wwwwds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2011/04/20/000333037_20110420235516/Rendered/PDF/612750v10ESW0P1rt0Volume0I01PUBLIC1.pdf: According to the Budget Speech 2011-12 delivered by Pranab Mukherjee, http://indiabudget.nic.in/bspeecha.asp:
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Highlights of the Finance Minister Pranab Mukherji’s budget speech (2010-2011) delivered on 26 February, 2010, http://indiabudget.nic.in/ub2010-11/bs/speecha.htm: • During 2009, growth had started decelerating and the business sentiment was weak. The economy’s capacity to sustain high growth was under serious threat from the widespread economic slowdown in the developed world. • There was uncertainty on account of the delayed and…
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• Section 105 of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013, which provides for excluding 13 Central legislation, including Land Acquisition (Mines) Act 1885, Atomic Energy Act, 1962, Railway Act 1989, National Highways Act 1956 and Metro Railways (Construction of Works) Act, 1978, from its purview,…
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Please click here to access The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Amendment) Second Ordinance 2015, dated 30 May, 2015 Please click here to access The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Second Amendment) Bill 2015 Please click here to access The Right…
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According to the National Advisory Council 2, http://nac.nic.in/press_releases/25_may_2011.pdf Suggestions for Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill 2009 & Resettlement and Rehabilitation Bill, 2009, http://nac.nic.in/pdf/working_group_proposal_for_larr.pdf: • The NAC has recommended that it is upto the states to decide the extent of percentage of the total land to be acquired by them. In principle, the NAC disagrees with the 70:30…
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