The modest Rs 1,309 crore outlay in the 2024-25 Budget for Census and National Population Register (NPR) preparation, as against the Rs 12,700 crore expenditure sanctioned by the cabinet in 2019, leaves a slim chance for resumption of the exercise that has been stalled since the pandemic in 2020.The dip in outlay for Census and…
NEW DELHI: K Chandrashekhar Rao’s Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) tops the income chart among regional parties for the year 2022-23 with Rs 737.6 crore, 42.3% of the total, according to poll rights body Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR).The top five parties with the highest expenditure are Trinamool Congress, which spent Rs 181.1 crore or 37.6…
CHANDIGARH: Nearly eight years after three senior IAS officers made an official visit to Paris, Chandigarh’s director general of audit (central) has pointed out that the trio made “unauthorised” expenditure in excess of Rs 6.72 lakh and flouted rules in extending their visit, hotel bookings, and travel dates.In June 2015, the then Union Territory’s adviser…
