रायपुर छत्‍तीसगढ़ की राजधानी अब कचरे के अंबार के बीच से उभरता हुआ न्‍यू रायपुर या नया रायपुर सभी के सपने पूरे करने का रायपुर बन गया है। छत्‍तीसगढ़ के गांव गांव से सरगुजा और अबूझमाड़ से आम आदमी आंखो में सपने लिये रायपुर आता है। मुख्‍यमंत्री जनदर्शन या मंत्रालय के दरवाजे उसको स्‍वप्‍न लोक रायपुर का वास्‍तविक स्‍थान दिखता है।

पुरानी बस्‍ती पुराना रायपुर अब भी रायपुर गांव, रायपुर शहर रायपुर सीटी व्‍यवसायिक स्‍थलों में बड़े बड़े माल और शोरूम की शक्‍ल में सामने आ रहे हैं। नया रायपुर तो शायद छत्‍तीसगढ़ विकास का चेहरा बनने वाला है।

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M. Veerappa Moily Chairman, Karnataka Tax Reforms Commission India has faced an upward trend in her consolidated (Centre and states combined) fiscal deficit in terms of GDP in recent years. Her public debt has accumulated to almost 60 percent of GDP. If she is unable to contain it, it is likely that the prevailing average interest rate on debt servicinq, 9.3 percent, will increase, in turn affecting economic growth. In order to obviate this, the primary fiscal deficit-deficit net of interest payments has to be reduced in terms of GDP.  read more »

I recall the day in my childhood when I porticipoted in the Independence day celebrations on August 15, 1947. After hoisting the National flag, children were given Boondi Laddus (Sweets), To my luck, when I ate the laddu, I found a four anna coin in it. I was thrilled. I can clearly remember the incident even today. As a child, it was my greatest experience.

What followed in the next few years has been a thread weaving my life every moment since then. My association with the Indian National Congress dates back to the time when my parents were fully involved in the election campaign in the year 1952.  read more »

Karnataka has 3728 kms of national highways, 10021 kms of State Highways, 28247 kms of major district roads and 88154 kms of village and other roads. i) Under the Prime Minister's Golden Quadrilateral scheme, about 625 kms of National Highways No.4 and No.7 are being taken up for widening at an estimated cost of Rs. 3,000 crores. Tenders are already floated.  read more »

The Indian National Congress has committed to the people of the country two things: 1) freedom from political slavery and 2) freedom from economic bondage. Through the party's 116 years of existence, it has been its consistent endeavour to deliver these promises to the people in right earnest.

Mahatma Gandhi ardently believed in 'Gram Swarajya'. Realising fully well that real India lives in our villages, the Father of the Nation observed in 'Harijan' dated July 1, 1947.  read more »

Recently, the BJP led NDA Government at the Centre took a decision to privatise Bharat Aluminium Company, a public sector undertaking with its major operations at Korba in Chhattisgarh. The decision has incensed not just the 7000 odd families directly employed by the Corporation, but also the people of Chhattisgarh. A profit making PSU estimated to be worth more than Rs. 5000 crores has been squandered away for less than one tenth of its value in a sleazy deal where the needle of suspicion points to the highest and the mightiest of the day.
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Former Union Minister India achieved independence in August, 1947 and adopted its democratic Constitution in January, 1950. It granted equal political rights to women with men under universal ,adult franchise, irrespective of caste, class, religion place of birth, educational or property qualification. It thus recognized the need for free and active political participation of women in equal measure and anticipated their political empowerment to enable them to contribute to the building of the new nation. And the women of free India started their march to a life of freedom.  read more »

Mrs. Indira Gandhi, once highlighting the essence of national integration, had said. /lA nation is a mosaic like a work of art. It takes many elements, many textures and many colours to give the total effect of strength and beauty. The Indian nation is such a rich mosaic of people, of dress and diet, of cultures, of languages, of faiths. Yet, this diversity is encompassed within an intangible quality of Indianness.
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Nagaland was created as the 16th State of the Indian Union on December 1963. Its creation was unique, as it was the only State to have emerged out of an Agreement that was signed in 1960 between the Government of India and the Naga People's Convention, representi ng the people of Nagaland. This is commonly referred to as the 16- Point Agreement.
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ln the first four decodes since independence, India pursued a strategy of trying to achieve relatively uniform growth, with reasonable depth, across all sectors of the economy. Further, because of various socio-economic considerations, the tariff and pricing policies for public goods and services did not allow for adequate cost recovery, resulting in uneconomic returns from users.

As a result of the huge economic and administrative costs, government finances have been severely strained, resulting in unsustainable borrowings and unmanageable levels of fiscal deficits in the budgets both at the Centre and across all states. Given the paucity of resources, investment in high quality, reliable infrastructure services continued to be inadequate and became a major drag on India's economic growth.  read more »