Planning Commission
The hundreds of crores homebuyers have invested in Noida are safe. The Centre’s draft of the redrawn eco-sensitive zone around the Okhla bird sanctuary doesn’t affect any realty project in the area, a highly placed official in the UP government said on Sunday. T The draft proposes a no-construction zone extending 1.27km from the sanctuary [...] Continue Reading »
The newly-constituted highway committee under Roads Secretary Vijay Chibber will hold its first meeting on September 13. The committee comprises representatives from the Planning Commission and the Finance Ministry. Set up in accordance with the directions of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), the new committee has been formed to give the Roads Ministry [...] Continue Reading »
Amid speculation that the environment ministry is planning to make NGT a mere advisory body, lawyers, petitioners and even common people are concerned about losing an important instrument of ensuring environmental justice. After the Centre’s decision to replace the planning commission, the ministry may amend National Green Tribunal Act 2010 to strip NGT of its [...] Continue Reading »
The government is likely to set up a new economic think-tank reporting directly to the head of the government. This will be on the lines of the Korea Development Institute after dismantling the planning commission. The planning commission once had formidable economist and former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh as deputy chairman. Some policy analysts [...] Continue Reading »
With the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) having prepared a note that seeks the overhaul of the existing model concession agreement, an inter-ministerial committee will be set up by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways to review the note. Since the model concession agreement – signed between the concessionaire and the government – [...] Continue Reading »
In order to catch up with the scheduled time of the delayed Metro rail project, the revenue authorities have made a decision to expedite the land acquisition process along the stretch of Aluva Vyttila. The officials of Kochi Metro Rail Ltd stated that they are expecting to complete the process of work by the end [...] Continue Reading »
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to receive a request from the Ministry of Roads, Highways and Transport to reduce the interference of the Planning Commission and the Finance Ministry. The Road Ministry’s request to the PM to make the Planning Commission and Finance Ministry ‘less meddling’ is essentially rooted in the fact that undue [...] Continue Reading »
There are differences spurring up between the ministry of road transport and highways and the Planning Commission over the appraisal procedures. The last pre-appraisal meeting for public-private partnership (PPP) which was called by Gajendra Haldea, the adviser to the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission on May 30 was not attended by the ministry. Mr [...] Continue Reading »
Haryana better than Gujarat in terms of business and regulatory environment: Planning Panel official
A senior official has said it was Congress-ruled Haryana, and not Narendra Modi’s Gujarat, which topped a recent Planning Commission-sponsored study that evaluated states over business and regulatory environment. Perhaps hile the Congress is red faced over government-commissioned surveys giving credit to the Gujarat model. Deloitte, which carried out the Planning Commission sponsored study, ranked [...] Continue Reading »
National Highways Authority of India has blamed the Planning Commission for blocking its attempts to revive the virtually-stalled road sector and sought more powers to speed up project implementation, in a fresh spat. NHAI chairman R P Singh said in a recent letter to road transport and highway secretary Vijay Chhibber said “It’s high time [...] Continue Reading »
