NEW DELHI: The Niti Aayog has proposed a host of fiscal and non-fiscal incentives, including extension of the production-linked incentive scheme to vehicles run on liquified natural gas and setting up a demand aggregator, to encourage use of LNG in medium and heavy commercial vehicles. This will help lower carbon dioxide emissions and contribute towards … Read more
BENGALURU: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday alleged Prime Minister Narendra Modi was trying to curtail the financial autonomy of the states with attempts to interfere with the Finance Commission. Quoting from an Al Jazeera article, which described an interview with Niti Aayog CEO BVR Subrahmanyam, the CM said he hoped this revelation would wake up … Read more
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), hosted a discussion on the outcomes of COP28 and way forward for COP29 on Tuesday. In the opening remarks, Dr Vibha Dhawan, Director General, TERI, emphasized the need to prioritize the initiatives necessary to be undertaken between the COPs, stating, “We are still not talking … Read more
Mokokchung (Nagaland): Taking a dig at NITI Aayog, for its report stating India has registered a significant decline in multidimensional poverty in India from 29.17 percent in 2013-14 to 11.28 percent in 2022-23 — a reduction of 17.89 percentage points, Congress Rajya Sabha MP Jairam Ramesh called the government agency a drumbeater of Prime Minister … Read more
