Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said that Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) has a key role to play in policymaking and formatting plan objectives. Mukherjee, who is also the chairman of the governing council of ISI, said: “ISI has a key role in policymaking and formatting plan objectives. It is a premier institution in its own right [...]
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Indian Statistical Institute, a key policymaking player: Mukherjee
September 13th, 2010 |
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Generate required level of awareness about insurance benefits to poor: Mukherjee
September 7th, 2010 |
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Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday asked the insurance companies to create awareness among the poor and vulnerable section of the society especially the people living in rural areas so that they can avail the benefits of financial services. Addressing a large gathering of the representatives of the insurance companies in a function organized by [...]
Monetary policy will tamp down inflation: Mukherjee
April 20th, 2010 |
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Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Tuesday endorsed the central bank’s decision to hike key interest rates aimed at containing inflation without hurting growth.
“The well-balanced measures, which involve raising the repo rate, the reverse repo rate and the cash reserve ratio by 25 basis points each, reflect a mature and balanced view of the needs of our [...]
Budgetary measures will boost investment and growth: Pranab
April 2nd, 2010 |
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Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Friday hoped that the measures outlined in the 2010-11 budget will boost private investment and put the economy back on a 9 percent growth track.
“I am optimistic that the measures I have outlined in this year’s budget will revive private investment and put the economy back on the growth path of [...]
Pranab Mukherjee calls for all-party meeting over Women’’s Reservation Bill
March 31st, 2010 |
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Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has called for an all-party meeting over the Women’’s Reservation Bill on April 5 before it is tabled in the upcoming session of the Parliament.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has called for countrywide protests against the Bill next month, saying that the legislation was against Dalit icon Bhim Rao Ambedkar’’s ideology [...]
Pranab sticks to 7.2 percent growth in 2009-10
March 22nd, 2010 |
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Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Monday said the government was sticking to an estimated 7.2 percent growth rate for this fiscal (2009-10) and 8.5 percent for 2010-11.
“I have given some indication in the budget speech and the economic survey. So far as this year is concerned, we are sticking to 7.2 percent GDP (Gross Domestic Product)growth [...]
Indian Budget 2010 Today
February 26th, 2010 |
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It is time for Indian Budget 2010 and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will announce the budget after few hours in Indian Parliament.
There is a lot of hope in the business community because the ruling Congress Party and its allies won a decisive victor in the General Elections of 2009 and they did not need [...]
Deora meets Mukherjee on oil price hike, no decision taken
January 15th, 2010 |
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Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Petroleum Minister Murli Deora, who met Thursday to discuss the proposed fuel prices hike, were unable to agree on the quantum of support to be given to oil marketing companies for losses incurred by sale of subsidised petroleum products.
“No decision was taken,” Deora told reporters outside North Block, where the [...]
Need to improve competition in the agricultural market, says Pranab Mukherjee
November 17th, 2009 |
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Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday said that there is a need to improve competition in the agricultural market to benefit farmers as well as the consumers.
Addressing a conference on Competition, Public Policy and Common Man in the national capital, Mukherjee said that the ability to make the desired innovative changes would be a [...]
West Bengal’’s Left Front Government losing popularity: Mukherjee
November 11th, 2009 |
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The CPI(M)-led Left Front government is West Bengal is losing popularity in the state, claimed Union Finance Minister and President of the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee, Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday.
Addressing a press conference at the Congress party office here, Mukherjee pointed out that it was becoming apparent that the anti-Left people in the state [...]
Mukherjee says he does not visualise a conflict on border dispute with China
November 9th, 2009 |
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Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said that he does not visualize a conflict over the border dispute between India and China.
Talking to reporters after attending the G-20 Finance Ministers meet in St. Andrews in Scotland, Mukherjee said:”I do not visualize any conflict on border dispute between India and China. We have an institutional arrangement, though [...]
Mukherjee asks Krishna, Tharoor to shift to official residences from hotels
September 8th, 2009 |
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Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday asked External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna and his deputy Shashi Tharoor to vacate their five-star hotel suites.
Krishna and Tharoor have been staying in five-star hotels in national capital for the past three months in the absence of official accommodation.
While Krishna was staying at ITC Maurya, Tharoor was [...]
G-20 countries will continue stimulus packages: Pranab
September 7th, 2009 |
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G-20 countries have decided to continue with the stimulus packages till the global economy is fully revived, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Monday.
The club of finance ministers of developed and developing nations also agreed to postpone the “exit strategy” till the full recovery of the world economy.
“Most of the finance ministers, including finance ministers [...]