Articles for Governance

What does the head of IoT do?

The biggest challenge for IoT heads is to assemble an ecosystem that justifies the investment

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Housing Sector: Affordable homes, procedural delay major concerns

Huge financial investments are required to overcome the urban housing shortage, at 18.8 million units, of which 95.6 percent is in EWS/LIG segments

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PM asks IT industry to develop security solutions, new ideas

PM Narendra Modi has asked the Indian IT industry to work on pathbreaking ideas like 'cloud godowns' and 'cloud lockers' to help keep data secure

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Tax sops may help REITs attract $ 1bn funds in 2015: JLL

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has rationalised the capital gains tax regime for the sponsors of newly-created business structure REITs

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Centre to delink eight schemes in 2015-16

These include the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) and Modernization of Police Forces, while about 24 CSS will continue to run with a changed sharing pattern and 31 programmes will get full support of the Centre

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MoUD to re-assess DDA's role in development needs of Delhi

A 14-member Committee to revisit and redraft the Delhi Development Act 1957 has been set up under retired IAS officer Madhukar Gupta, who was also a former Vice-Chairman of DDA

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#Budget2015: Mixed reaction from the real estate sector

The industry has welcomed some of the proposals of the Finance Minister, but bemoaned the omission of incentives to boost the sector and lack of clarity on smart cities

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New Railway mantras: borrowing, PPPs, asset monetisation

Union Minister Suresh Prabhu acknowledges that Railways is in "trouble" and that the public-private-partnership (PPP) policy must change to attract investment for capacity building

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