Rural Consumption

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  IMF Raises India's GDP Growth Forecast To 7% For 2024-25

  The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday raised India's growth forecast for 2024-25 to 7% from 6.8% on the back of improving private consumption, particularly in rural India.

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  RBI Raises India's GDP Growth Projection To 7.2% For 2024-25

  The Reserve Bank of India revised upwards the GDP growth projection for the current fiscal to 7.2 per cent from 7 per cent on rising private consumption and revival of demand in rural areas.

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  Data Shows How Much Monthly Household Expenses Increased In Past 2 Decades

  The average monthly expenses in rural and urban households have narrowed in the past two decades with a sharp rise in rural consumption, shows a key expenditure data released after a gap of 11 years.

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  AICTE Releases Environment Policy 2020; Focus On Research, Development On Environmental Issues

  AICTE has released its Environment Policy 2020. The policy of AICTE is to conserve natural environment, develop sustainable solutions, innovations and startups, promote rural technologies and control energy consumption in order.

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  Jio Helped Boost OTT Streaming Consumption in Rural India: BIF

  TV Ramachandran, President, Broadband India Forum (BIF), made the statement to IANS.

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  1 Budget, 9 Elections: Big Year To Test PM Modi, Says Foreign Media

  PM Modi gave the highest ever allocation to a rural job guarantee program in the current year ending March, and spent more on providing houses, drinking water and building rural roads.

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  FMCG Players Want Focus On Rural Markets, Reduction In Tax Slabs

  EY Tax Partner Prashant Khatore said the government needs to bring policies to increase consumption, like reduction in personal income tax enabling more disposable income.

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  Honda Cliq: All You Need To Know

  Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India (HMSI) has launched the company's least expensive scooter, the Honda Cliq. What is it and what does it offer to the prospective automatic scooter buyer? Here's a look at all you need to know about the new Honda Cliq.

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  11 Guwahati Central Jail Inmates Approach High Court To Allow Them Eat 'Paan'

  Eleven inmates of the Guwahati Central Jail today approached the Gauhati High Court challenging the legality of the orders of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kamrup (Rural), on sale and consumption of 'Tamul Paan' (betel nuts and betel leaves) in the jail canteen.

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  Union Cabinet Gives Green Light To Rs 8000 Crore Rural LPG Scheme

  The Cabinet today approved a Rs 8,000-crore scheme to provide cooking gas connections free of cost to women members of poor households.

• Liquor banned in 84 Assam villages

  A remote gram panchayat along with the Assam-Meghalaya border in Assam's Kamrup (Rural) district has banned the sale and consumption of liquor in 84 villages under its jurisdiction. "The socio-economic condition of the villagers had forced us to take such a decision as villagers were spending a substantial amount of their income on liquor and it ha...

• Planning Commission further lowers poverty line to Rs 28 per day

  Planning Commission on Monday further reduced the poverty line to Rs 28.65 per capita daily consumption in cities and Rs 22.42 in rural areas, scaling down India's poverty ratio to 29.8 per cent in 2009-10, the estimates which are likely to raise the hackles of civil society.