Shishir Prashant / Business Standard New Delhi/ Dehradun February 03, 2011, 0:58 IST The strong industrialisation owing to hill-based tax incentives during the past few years may be a feel good factor in Uttarakhand. But all that glitters is not gold. The Uttarakhand Environment Protection…
Read more »Reuters Libbar Hari:, January 26, 2011 Bhola Nath doesn’t care much for India’s growth story. Not when the 65-year-old migrant brick kiln worker has stopped buying onions and garlic, key food staples for Indian families, and manages to save just 1,000 rupees ($22) per month…
Read more »The Comptroller and Auditor General of India has just uploaded the “Performance Audit Report of Hydropower Development Through Private Sector Participation” in full to its website. In what proves to be sober reading, both the dismal state of implementation and complete lack of environmental consideration…
Read more »Tribune News Service Dehradun, September 9 Perturbed at the rampant exploitation of the Himalayas and the inherent dangers of lopsided development, activists, while observing Himalaya Day today, said that development that is counterproductive to the existence of the Himalayas was unacceptable to them. They urged…
Read more »Shishir Prashant Sify Finance, 2010-08-19 02:20:00 A couple of proposed special economic zones (SEZs), both in private and government sectors, in Uttarakhand may not see the light of day mainly due to unfavourable market conditions. Though Parsvanath and other private players have discarded their SEZ…
Read more »Press Trust of India, Saturday, May 29, 2010 at 0027 hrs IST Dehradun: Uttarakhand is likely to pass the much-awaited Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) Act, setting the stage for private companies like RIL and ITC to get into contract farming in the state and…
Read more »Shishir Prashant / Business Standard / New Delhi / Dehra Dun May 14, 2010, 0:23 IST A couple of proposed special economic zones (SEZs), both in private and government sectors, in Uttarakhand have failed to make any headway. Though Parsvnath and other private players have…
Read more »IANS Vancouver, April 21 – Canada’s Pebble Creek mining company said here Tuesday that it is all set to commence drilling operations at its Askot project in India’s Uttarakhand state. Situated in Pithoragarh district of the state, the Askot project likely contains deposits of gold,…
Read more »IFMR Blog, April 9, 2010 Including the poor into the formal financial system has been hard despite numerous and sustained efforts. The difficulty in achieving inclusion attains a whole new meaning in hills and mountainous regions where populations are sparse and connectivity is extremely low.…
Read more »Shishir Prashant / Business Standard Dehradun June 30, 2009 The new Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, faces the challenge of attracting industrialists to set up units in the hills of the state. Under the hill industrial policy of 2008, mainly for small industries,…
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