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Governance And Institutions

  • Govt. planning to amend Panchayat Raj Act: Ghorpade

    Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister M Y Ghorpade today said the Karnataka State Government was contemplating amendments to the Karnataka Panchayat Raj Act in order to give more powers to the

  • India, Pakistan included in education project

    India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are among the 23 countries which have been invited by World Bank to join the "Education for All Fast track" to help developing countries meet the millennium development

  • Literacy rate increases to 50.5pc: survey

    The Pakistan economic survey 2001-02, released, has estimated the literacy rate at 50.5 per cent, registering an increase of over one per cent from the last year's figure of 49 per cent. The survey,

    • 13/06/2002

  • Voice against unplanned strategy

    The bright future promised by the Madhya Pradesh government after it planned to set up an industrial estate in early 1980s, is still to be realised by large mass of local people in Bhind district.

    • 11/06/2002

  • M.P. panel for quality education

    The Madhya Pradesh Government has constituted the State Advisory Board of Education to advise the government on how to provide quality education at all levels, in all disciplines and make it

  • Saathi puts spokes in CNG bus purchase

    The proposed purchase of 1,000 new CNG buses by the Delhi Transport Corporation has run into rough weather following objections raised by the Finance Department. the Department has taken a serious

  • Govt. for strengthening Panchayat Raj in J&K

    The finance minister, Abdul Rahim Rather, has stressed the imperative need of strengthening the Panchayati Raj System in Jammu & Kashmir. The elected representatives of Panchayats are fully aware of

    • 21/05/2002

  • SSA pre-project works unlikely to meet deadline

    The pre-project works of 'Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan' (SSA), the Central Government-sponsored new education system in Kerala, is unlikely to achieve its mission within the stipulated time. SSA introduced

    • 20/05/2002

  • 204 villages literate in Khammam

    In its endeavour to achieve total literacy by the year 2005 as part of Akshara sankranti, the Khammam district administration has succeeded in implementing total literacy in 204 villages. A total of

    • 15/05/2002

  • ' Reduce number of village panchayats'

    The number of village panchayats in the States can be reduced from the present 12,619 to about 10,000 by reconstituting or regrouping them, the second State finance commission has suggested. The

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