Chhattisgarh’s per capita debt rises to Rs.5,995

October 2nd, 2009 RAIPUR - Chhattisgarhs Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government Friday said is is planning to provide interest free loans to farmers. "The government plans to further lower the agriculture interest loan in the state to two percent and one percent in phase-wise manner from the existing three percent, and then reduce it to zero percent, Chief Minister Raman Singh said, according to an official press statement Friday.

October 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - A strict global carbon budget between now and 2050 based on a fair distribution between rich and poor nations has the potential to prevent dangerous climate change and keep temperature rise well below two degrees Celsius, a new WWF report shows. The report, called 'Sharing the effort under a global carbon budget' and released worldwide Friday, is based on research, calculations and analysis by the consultancy Ecofys and shows different ways to cut global emissions by at least 80 percent by 2050 and by 30 percent by 2030 compared to 1990 levels.

September 14th, 2009 RAIPUR - Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh Monday approved a proposal that will put all the state's urban bodies online from January 2010. Singh approved a proposal of the urban administration department to connect all urban bodies of the state to internet for online monitoring of their work from the state's secretariat, an official statement said.

September 7th, 2009 ABU DHABI - The United Arab Emirates (UAE) finance ministry has set up a special unit to manage public debt, WAM news agency reported Monday. The Public Debt Management Unit will, among other things, be responsible for the development of strategies for debt and risk management and refer these strategies to the cabinet.

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June 20th, 2009 RAIPUR - Casualties are feared as a truck carrying several paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel in Chhattisgarhs restive Bastar region hit a landmine planted by suspected Maoists Saturday evening, injuring 11, a police officer said. The blast occurred in a thickly forested stretch of Tongapal in Dantewada district, some 500 km south of here, when an over 40-member search squad of CRPF men and District Force (DF) was on its way back to its base camp.

June 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhiites grew richer with per capita income growing at a faster pace compared to other states, while it increased its literate population to 82 percent, as per the state government's economic survey. Delhi's per capita income more than doubled the national average to stand at Rs.60,189, an increase of 5.6 percent over the previous corresponding period, according to the Economic Survey of Delhi (2008-09) presented by Delhi's Finance Minister A.K.

June 19th, 2009 RAIPUR - Maoist guerrillas shot dead two district force (DF) personnel in Chhattisgarhs Rajnandgaon district in a remote forest area Sunday morning, police said. Heavily armed Maoists attacked five police personnel in Madanwara, in Manpur locality, killing two DF cops, deputy inspector general of police Pawan Deo told IANS.

June 1st, 2009 RAIPUR - The Chhattisgarh government Monday said its royalty earnings from minerals rose 20 percent in 2008-09 to Rs.1,237 crore. "The state had made earnings of Rs.1,237.29 crore from minerals in 2008-09, comparing to Rs.1,028.38 crore in 2007-08, registering an overall 20 percent increase," an official statement said.

March 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - India's total external debt rose to $230.85 billion at the end of December from $224.65 billion at September-end, the finance ministry said Tuesday. 'The total external debt marginally increased 2.8 percent from $224.65 billion at September-end 2008, as commercial external borrowings by India Inc continued to enjoy major chunk of external debt,' a ministry release said.

March 30th, 2009 RAIPUR - A total of 254 candidates have filed nomination papers for the 11 Lok Sabha seats from Chhattisgarh with 107 doing so Monday - the last day, election officials said. Filing of nomination papers had begun March 23 and the scrutiny will take place Tuesday while April 2 would be the last date for withdrawal of nomination papers.

February 18th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Kerala's 2006 per capita debt stood at over Rs.14,300 - the highest among states in south India - against the national average of around Rs.9,000. This was stated in the Economic Review 2008 tabled in the Kerala Assembly Thursday.

February 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - President Pratibha Patil Wednesday urged plastic manufacturers to take adequate measures for waste management, as more than half of the plastic waste is causing harm to the environment. 'Plastics are chemically inert by nature, but it's a question of degradability which has attracted severe criticism on its applications all around,' Patil said after inaugurating the seventh International Plastics Exhibition and Conference, PlastIndia-2009, here Wednesday.

February 3rd, 2009 RAIPUR - Chhattisgarh's industrial sector is expected to grow 9.41 percent this fiscal, Chief Minister Raman Singh said here Wednesday. Speaking in the state assembly, he said the agriculture and service sectors were estimated to grow 1.10 and 9.46 percent respectively.

December 28th, 2008 RAIPUR - The maiden session of the third legislative assembly of Chhattisgarh will be held in January, assembly officials said Monday. The two-day session of the 90-member assembly will be held Jan 5 and 9.