While the pilot is being conducted in five cities - Delhi, Bengaluru, Coimbatore, Bhopal and Shillong - ONDC is on course for a pan-India launch by August that will see it introduced across 100 cities
Five cities - Delhi, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Surat - ceded their power of procurement and agreed to a different procurement model to operate state-run buses
To ensure these have logistics & infrastructure connectivity, before it receives Cabinet nod
India's target to have 20% ethanol blended in petrol will have to bring more land under cultivation of raw material, and that may affect food security. Yet, emissions will not reduce drastically
Foreign battery cells may not be suitable for Indian conditions: VK Saraswat
'NITI should be seen as an honest broker between the Centre and states', said Bery
According to the report, there were 4.7 million Covid deaths in India -- 10 times the official figures and almost a third of Covid deaths globally
Gulati was looking after digital communications policy matters at the government think tank and took voluntary retirement in April last year
India's chances of becoming a stable supplier of wheat are limited in the absence of a long-term policy on foodgrain exports
Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar and Germany's Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development Svenja Schulze signed a declaration in this regard in a virtual meeting, an official statement
Eminent economist Suman Bery on Sunday took charge as the Vice Chairman of the government think tank Niti Aayog, according to an official statement.
NITI Aayog favours selling all natural gas through the Indian Gas Exchange
The think tank should fill policy gaps
Aayog will have third vice-chairperson from the next month, while erstwhile Planning Commission that NITI replaced, Montek Singh Ahluwalia had an unhindered stint of almost 10 years as deputy chairman
The mode of financing vehicles without a battery has not been spelt out
Suman Bery is non-resident fellow at Bruegel, a European think tank specializing in economics.
He is likely to be replaced by economist Suman Bery.
According to the draft policy, vehicles with swappable batteries will be sold without a battery, providing the benefit of lower purchase costs to potential EV owners
Kant further said that India will grow if the country can use power of its private sector
Experts have some reservations about the methodology used to arrive at the number, and that the poverty figures under the existing PPP of $1.9 per person per day have been understated