The absence of Planning Board Vice-Chairman Prabhat Patnaik from a two-day international conference on %u2018Kerala People%u2019s Plan Revisited%u2019 has once again taken the ideological conflict within the CPM to the streets.
Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan said on Sunday that the government was considering monthly publication of the progress of projects and the expenditure involved.
With an aim to promote awareness on urban and regional planning, a three-day National Town and Country Planners Congress will commence here from Tuesday.
The State%u2019s Planning has hit a roadblock after the differences of opinion between the Finance Minister and the Planning Board Vice-Chairman widened after the recent ADB loan controversy.
State Planning Board Vice-Chairman Prabhat Patnaik has said that debt relief packages such as the `Vidharbha Package' are only partial solutions to the agrarian crisis and that real solutions lie in increasing investment and employment opportunities in t
Faced with the daunting challenge of turning around Kerala%u2019s economy by walking the tightrope between West Bengal-style reforms and traditional %u2018pro-people%u2019 policies, Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan has decided to appoint eminent Marxist e