Agriculture Vs Technology

Gap touches record 6.7% of GDP, finance ministry sees moderation in March quarter - Current account deficit zooms

Cloud technology standardises and pools IT resources and automates many of the maintenance tasks done manually under traditional or client/server model of computing - How governments can benefit from cloud computing

The growth path going forward has to absorb the new entrants into the labour force, estimated at 4.5 million annually in the 12th Plan document - Jobs, jobs, jobs

HOW HAVE commodities fared over the past financial year? Gold, in particular, has been much studied oflate. It has been held responsible for India’s problematic current account deficit - STATSGURU: Commodities give a mixed picture

Experts say infiltration capacity reduces in urban areas - Call to Harvest Rain Water

Indian school children may have the fundamental right to education, but things are going fundamentally wrongacross the country’s schools.The elementary education budget has more than doubled since 2007-08, yet only about 30 percent of Standard-III students can read a Standard-I text. Is this a case of massivespend, without any dividend? - India spends, but education suffers

Growth revival will be more tentative, inflation sharper, and external pressures more acute than pronouncements suggest - Is the worst over?

Farm sector’s share in GSDP down over the past few years - State’s GSDP takes a nosedive

IMR (Infant Mortality Rate) in the State has declined from 66 per 1,000 live births in 2001 to 43 in 2011, according to Socio Economy Survey 2012-13 - Infant mortality declines in State

A slew of policy initiatives may be breathing life back into the infrastructure sector - Policy spring and green shoots

The market expects it to cut rates this week but the macroeconomic situation could suggest otherwise - STATSGURU: Governor Subbarao’s dilemma

The proposal to give mills the freedom to sell any quantity of sugar in the open market might also be discussed - Govt may discuss sugar decontrol tomorrow

Study across districts shows higher prosperity doesn’t necessarily translate into better quality of life; North India low on female security index - More often doesn’t mean better

How the FM squeezed spending to control the fiscal deficit - STATS GURU

With the Budget proposing an additional investment allowance of 15 per cent for assets acquired and installed in the next two years for over Rs100 crore in capital spending, companies are expected to get a total benefit of ~25,000 crore - Budget to help India Inc save rs 25,000 cr in 2 Years

Allocations for schemes remain by and large constant - Health, education could have done with more

Newcriteria lookatper capita income, literacyrate, human developmentindicators - Redefining backwardness of states

BUDGET AT A GLANCE

Food Security FM allocates Rs 10,000 cr to implementthe programme; this is apart from the usual
food subsidyrequirementof Rs 80,000 cr for the year - A bigger helping for food Bill

Interest subvention scheme to include private sector commercial banks - Farmers get credit guarantee backing