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Caselet Kalam for Efficient Resource Allocation

Our Bureau
NEW DELHI, April 9
THE President, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, on Wednesday expressed concern over the mounting
debt burden of both the Centre and the States, which, he felt, would have to be tackled in
order to ensure higher economic growth and significant poverty reduction.
“Many States are burdened with debt. The Union Budget also shows that one-fourth of the
Centre’s total receipts go for interest payments,” Dr Kalam said, while addressing the
Golden Jubilee function of the Finance Commission.

According to Dr Kalam, if India is to become a “developed country”, its economy would
have to register an annual growth of nine per cent, so that the 26 crore people currently
below the poverty line emerge out of it by the year 2020.
The President directed the Twelfth Finance Commission (TFC) to evolve a mechanism for
efficient resource allocation to ensure poverty reduction through proper fiscal management.

The Finance Minister, Mr Jaswant Singh, said more than the fiscal deficit, it was the revenue
deficit and primary deficit (i.e. fiscal deficit net of interest payments) of the Government,
which needed to be addressed seriously.
He felt that for a ‘continental-sized’ economy, the average annual growth rate of six per
cent registered during the past decade was ‘remarkable’, though “we have to continue and
reach the horizon”.
The TFC Chairman, Dr C. Rangarajan, said there was a need for all State Governments to
keep their fiscal deficit within ‘reasonable limits’ while simultaneously meeting
developmental responsibilities.
For this, there was a need to raise additional revenues, especially from non-tax sources
such as levying cost-based user charges on power, transport and water, and also prune
non-developmental.

11.6 Summary

 Project Insight gives project managers power over the management of resource
allocation for software development, marketing, product development teams and more.

 Assigning team members to business goals, projects and individual tasks is simple and
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easy with our PMI and PMBOK Guide compliant solution.
 Mass assign team members’ tasks grouped by skill set, department or resource type, or
handle resource allocation management for a single person. It is equally simple to change
a resource on a set of project tasks as well.

 In this unit we will learn about scheduling resources in projects. We will begin by
discussing the nature of resource requirements (both people and machines) and the problems
associated with managing resources in a project environment.
 Given the finite nature of resource availability, a project plan may have to be modified so
that it is practical.

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