Meaning of Mobilization of Resources

Mobilization of resources is all about how a government or governmental department / organization or a non-governmental organization can mobilize the material resources (including finance) to carry out its development projects or mission. For government, the mobilization of resources stands ..

Social Sector Planning: Assessment of the SATH Initiative

Recently, NITI Aayog has initiated SATH (Sustainable Action for Transforming Human capital), a unique and novel initiative to catalyze the change in social sectors. This programme was launched to identify and build three future ‘role model’ states for health and education sector. ..

Defence and Internal Security as part of planning

The new 15-year long-term vision has also included defence and internal security within its ambit. This entails strategic analysis of those aspects of security which are dependent on other aspects such as external affairs, economic issues and technology issues. This ..

NITI Aayog’s Three Year action agenda: An Objective Analysis

Here is a further objective analysis of the 15 years vision, seven year strategy and three year action agenda of the NITI Aayog. We have already discussed that that the 12th Five Year Plan was the last of the five ..

Vision, Strategy and Three Year Action Agenda of NITI Aayog

The 12th and last five year plan of India was completed on March 31, 2017. With this, the five year plans have become a thing of past. It was already announced that there will be no more five year plans. ..

Other Sectors in Budget

Defence & Aerospace in Budget, 2017-18 The outlay for Defence in the Budget 2017-18 stands at Rs. 274113 Crore with a modest hike of 6% in allocation from the previous year. With this, currently, the defence budget stands at 1.62% ..

Railways & Transport Sector in Budget 2017-18

The Budget 2017-18 was independent India’s first budget in which Railway Budget was presented as part of the Union Budget itself. The entire transport sector was given Rs. 2.41 Lakh Crore. The Key announcements for Railways and other transport sector ..

Education in Union Budget 2017-18

The outlay on education sector this year has seen a rise of 9.9% from Rs.72,394 crore to Rs. 79,685.95 crore. Of the total outlay, Rs. 46,356.25 is for the school sector and the rest for higher education. The outlay is ..

Healthcare in Union Budget 2017-18

The major issues in the healthcare sector in India are low government spending and high out of pocket expenditure on health. There was an expectation of increased budget share of healthcare sector to meet these challenges and the dual challenges ..

Banking Sector in Union Budget 2017-18

The budget 2017-18 has come with a big boost for the agriculture market due to increased push on infra, boost to affordable housing, fiscal deficit target of 3.2% etc. They key provisions for the banking sector are as follows: New ..