Austerity Drive

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  Fuel Cuts, Vehicles, Foreign Trips: Pak's Austerity Push As Economy Falters

  To reduce the impact of rising petroleum prices, Pakistan has ordered a cut in fuel for official vehicles, bans on vehicle purchases by the state, foreign visits by officials, and official dinners, except those hosted for foreign visitors and delegations.

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  Latest In Pak Austerity Drive, A Buffalo Auction At Imran Khan's House

  The Pakistani premier's house milked its livestock reserves Thursday as dozens gathered for a buffalo auction in the capital Islamabad, in the latest push for Prime Minister Imran Khan's highly publicised austerity drive.

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  UP Orders Strict Austerity Measures For Bureaucrats. Details Here

  Rolling out strict austerity measures, the Uttar Pradesh government has asked its officials to curtail expenses on foreign visits, fly economy class and avoid holding lunch or dinner meetings at five-star hotels.

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  Imran Khan Mocked For Daily Chopper Rides As Pak Goes On Austerity Drive

  Lower-than-expected sales in an auction of Pakistani government vehicles have dealt another early setback to new Prime Minister Imran Khan's populist vow to raise quick revenues through cost-cutting, a campaign that has drawn both praise and ridicule.

• Pakistan Bans Discretionary Use Of State Funds, First-Class Air Travel By Government Officials

  Pakistan government wants to be leaner and more productive; but the six-day week proposal didn’t succeed.

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  International Monetary Fund Austerity Deal Hurts Egyptians As Subsidies Are Cut, Prices Soar

  A few years ago Imad would not have imagined himself queuing in the Cairo sun for a weekly ration of subsidised baby milk. But rising prices mean his civil servant's salary barely lasts the month and the government is tightening its belt further.

• Austerity Drive, Spending Cuts Risk Fickle Growth: Nomura

  The Finance Ministry issued a circular today instructing government departments to cut discretionary spending by 10 per cent. As part of these measures, it banned first class travel by government officials, meetings in five-star hotels, purchase of cars and froze new appointments.

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  Modi Government's Austerity Drive: No First Class Air Travel, No New Posts

  These measures include banning officials from first class air travel and a ban on creation of new posts in government.

• Red carpet for foreign delegates rolled up on Finance Ministry's orders

  The finance ministry has directed all ministries and departments, not to give advance commitments for bearing the expenses of foreign delegates, coming to attend international seminars in India.

• Govt launches austerity drive, bans meetings in 5-star hotels

  Launching an austerity drive to contain expenditure, the government today banned the creation of new posts in its departments and holding their meetings in five-star hotels. The government also imposed curbs on foreign travel.

• Akhilesh's austerity drive: 32 cars dropped from his fleet

  Surprising even his officials, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has issued orders to cut down the cars in his fleet from 40 to just eight and also ordered the specialised hospital operating in his official residence to shut down.

• Austerity drive to cut wasteful expenditure: Pranab

  Justifying the government's austerity drive, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said  the restrictions on foreign visits and other expenses are aimed at curbing wasteful expenditure and containing fiscal deficit. "I sent a note (on austerity in government departments)  and Prime Minister has approved in certain areas where I&n...

• Austerity drive ends on April 1

  The government on Friday said direct tax collection has surpassed the budget estimate of Rs 3.70 lakh crore for the 2010 fiscal.

• Rahul Gandhi undertakes train journey from Gorakhpur to Mumbai

  Rahul Gandhi undertook an unpublicised train journey in the ordinary sleeper class from Gorakhpur to Mumbai ten days ago. His mission was to acclimatise himself with the problems of the people who migrate to the metropolis in search of livelihood.  "The Congress general secretary landed at Gorakhpur from a special plane from Bihar and boa...

• Austerity drive hits Queen of England

  Queen Elizabeth II will not get a penny more. The amount of funds the Queen gets from the British taxpayer to run her household will be frozen at 7.9 million pounds, Chancellor George Osborne said delivering his first Budget statement to the House of Commons.