Hyderabad: Telangana’s urban areas are set for a substantial upgrade as Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy has decided to implement Blue-Green Infrastructure projects across all municipal corporations and municipalities in the state. Revanth Reddy, who also holds the portfolio for municipal administration and urban development, has instructed officials to prepare a comprehensive ‘Master Plan 2050’ for every municipality and municipal …
The government has appointed former expenditure secretary Ajay Narayan Jha and SBI Group Chief Economic Advisor Soumya Kanti Ghosh, along with two other members, to the newly-formed 16th Finance Commission. Among the appointed members, Ajay Narayan Jha, who also served in the 15th Finance Commission; retired bureaucrat Annie George Mathew; and Artha Global Executive Director Niranjan Rajadhyaksha will serve as …
Eminent economist Arvind Panagariya has said India is on the cusp of returning to a high growth trajectory and voiced confidence that the country will become the world’s third-largest economy by 2027-28. A day before Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget on Wednesday, the Economic Survey tabled in Parliament pegged India’s GDP growth at 6.5 per cent in …
Published : Sep 08, 2022 11:00 IST The long-standing debate on whether India’s public sector banks should be privatised has resurfaced in recent days. Referring to a core theme in the article by Gupta and Panagariya, the RBI researchers argued that while on pure profitability grounds private banks in India appear more efficient than public ones, public banks turn out …
