India to roll out cash transfer of food subsidies from Sept: Official
India plans to phase in cash transfers of food and kerosene subsidies from September, saving 10-15 percent of the $21 billion in annual outlays on the benefits by eliminating fraud, a senior finance ministry official said on Thursday.
Jul 02, 2015, 20:27 PM IST
Government explores deregulating urea, scrapping import duty: Report
Fertiliser subsidy costs quadrupled over the past decade as the previous government kept urea prices below the cost of production.
Jan 19, 2015, 12:09 PM IST
Government will gradually rationalise all subsidies: Arun Jaitley
Speaking at a CII event in Chennai, the Finance Minister said that Prime Minister needs to have the last word for economic management of the country.
Jan 19, 2015, 11:14 AM IST
