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Second Five Year Plan Before Parliament | 1956 | India Before 1991
The Second Five-Year Plan, which was submitted to Parliament on Tuesday morning, aims at securing a 25 per cent increase in the national income and a rapid industrialisation of the country accompanied by large expansion of
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RADICAL RAO AND MACHO MANMOHAN | JUNE 1991 | India Before 1991
We have a hung Parliament of Congress is well short of a majority and will fall even short after the elections to 13 counter mended seats of which it may win no more than three.
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CENTRAL PSU'S NET PROFIT DOWN BY 37 P.C | AUGUST 91 | India Before 1991
Central public sector undertakings (PSUs) performed badly in 1990-91 with their net profit declining sharply by 37.28 per cent compared with the previous year. According to the 1990-91 annual report of the department of public enterprises, the 189 central public enterprises earned a net profit of Rs. 2,730.27 crore during 1990-91 against the net profit Rs. 3,748 crore in
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PFY CONSUMERS AGAIN FAIL TO BENEFIT FROM EXCISE RELIEF | SEPTEMBER 1991 | India Before 1991
HIKE COMPENSATED:A senior manager of a Delhi-based PFY producer says that PFY prices have gone up by more than Rs. 20 per kg since July this year.According to him:"This increase compensates for the excise hike of Rs. 18 per kg effected in December 1990.At that time we were able to pass on just Rs. 8 out of the Rs. 18 to consumers".The manager also candidly admits that PFY
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Funeral for a Telephone: Shreekanth Gupta | India Before 1991
Prof Shreekanth Gupta discusses the comical state of dead telephones across the country, with poor state services in the telecom industry. He also mentions the OYT, or Own Your Telephone scheme, under MTNL and the difficulty of having to grapple with poor services. Read the complete transcript below: There used to be a Communication’s Minister in Mrs Indira Gandhi’s Cabinet,
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Funeral for a Telephone: Shreekanth Gupta | India Before 1991
Prof Shreekanth Gupta discusses the comical state of dead telephones across the country, with poor state services in the telecom industry. He also mentions the OYT, or Own Your Telephone scheme, under MTNL and the difficulty of having to grapple with poor services. Read the complete transcript below: There used to be a Communication’s Minister in Mrs Indira Gandhi’s Cabinet,
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CAPITALISING I OCTOBER 1956 | India Before 1991
New Delhi seems to be the favoured child of the Central Government.It has the best of every amenity and the contrast with Old Delhi becomes more noticeable every day.Now,it appears, New Delhi is to be further favoured. It is proposed that it should be Centrally administered while the rest of the Delhi is to be governed by a corporation. It is said that the Capital needs
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Parliament is often romanticised as the beating heart of Indian democracy. In practice, it is something more exacting and less forgiving: a constitutional instrument designed to convert disagreement into governance. Its authority does not lie in how loudly dissent is expressed, but in whether the in