Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
The State Government has decided to take up construction of pig shelters under the MGNREGS. Fisheries and Animal Resources Development Department Secretary Bishnupada Sethi had proposed construction of piggery shelters under the MGNREGS in individual lands to provide livelihood support to rural poor. The initiative would also improve the health …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM : State government has approved the guidelines for well recharge scheme to be implemented as part of Mahatma Gandhi national rural employment guarantee scheme. The project will be implemented in various phases. The project will be implemented in 142 village panchayats in the first phase. The project will be …
A primary drought assessment done by ActionAid in 38 villages (covering districts of Bargarh, Kandhamal, Sundergarh, Ganjam, Bolangir, Koraput and Nuapada) in Odisha on May 2016 show that about 57% of the ponds and bandhas created by MGNREGA have failed to work because the structures were badly planned with the …
Urbanization has both benefits and costs. In a market economy, the trade-off between benefits and costs determines the level, speed, and place of urbanization. This paper summarizes research findings on how urbanization enhances productivity and economic growth in both rural and urban sectors, taking the case of India.
The experience of countries that succeeded in reducing poverty significantly indicates the importance of high rates of economic growth in achieving this. High growth, however, is not a sufficient condition for poverty reduction; the pattern and sources of growth as well as the manner in which its benefits are distributed …
Himachal Pradesh government has set a target of planting over one crore saplings this year to increase the depleting green cover in the state. Himachal Pradesh was the first state in country to earn carbon credit. Accordingly, a sum of Rs 1.93 crore has been received from the central government …
As the district faced acute shortage of water in summer, the authorities, in association with non-government organisations, have started a silent revolution in water literacy by digging percolation pits to allow recharge of the groundwater. It is said that water table in the district depleted from 12.66 metres in April …
The Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat has planned to set up 49 solid waste managements units in the jurisdiction of the gram panchayats during 2016-17. Ten gram panchayats have already identified land for the purpose, CEO P I Sreevidya said. Speaking at a district-level water and sanitation committee meeting here on …
SAMBALPUR: THE district administration’s plan to renovate 427 traditional water harvesting structures (TWHS) under MGNREGS before the onset of monsoon has failed to achieve its target as 388 water bodies could be renovated within the stipulated time. The renovation, which began in April, covered water bodies across nine blocks of …
Minister for Finance and Civil Supplies Etala Rajender called upon the local bodies’ representatives, especially sarpanches, to play a responsible role for the success of Haritha Haram programme’s mass tree plantation programmes in rural areas. Participating in an programme to raise awareness about the Haritha Haram among representatives in Peddapalli …
‘Mazhathavalam’ to recharge district’s groundwater table One lakh pits to be constructed under Rs.4.80-crore project of district panchayat The district panchayat on Wednesday rolled out ‘Mazhathavalam,’ a scheme aimed at constructing around one lakh rainwater harvesting pits in the district. Agriculture Minister V.S. Sunil Kumar launched the scheme by laying …
Collector to appoint a resource person each for every 2 mandals. Nellore: As many as 100 villages in SPSR Nellore district were declared as open defecation free (ODF) areas as part of Swachh Bharat programme. Credit goes to district collector M Janaki and the workforce of AP Rural Water Supply …
Rural development ministry to also seek more funds over and above Rs 38,500 crore allocated in 2016-17 Budget for such works To ensure majority of the funds allocated under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is spent on water conservation-related works, the Centre is planning to come …
The climate change and biodiversity hotspot of Wayanad took its first steps towards eco-restoration and climate change mitigation with the rolling out of the state's first carbon neutrality project on the World Environment Day on Sunday. State Finance minister T M Thomas Isaac unveiled the project to make Meenangadi the …
Services of MGNREGS workers to be utilised for the purpose The unprecedented drought has prompted the district panchayat to channelise the workforce under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) for digging one lakh groundwater re-charging pits in the next three months. If the scheme goes well, there …
This paper uses a large national household panel from 1999/2000 and 2007/08 to analyze the short-term effects of India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme on wages, labor supply, agricultural labor use, and productivity. The scheme prompted a 10-point wage increase and higher labor supply to nonagricultural casual work …
This report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India containing the results of audit on Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Audit of Scheme Rules, 2011 (Social Audit Rules) has been prepared for submission to the President of India under Article 151 of Constitution. In last three years (2012-15), …
Using the latest National Sample Survey Office data on land distribution and use, questions of agrarian change in India are revisited. With reducing landholding size in general, the increasing unviability of such small plots, and increasing numbers of "effectively" landless households, the larger questions of employment and sectoral shifts are …
Anantapur:Anantapur: collector orders officials to complete all pending works on war footing. Nellore: District collector M. Janaki has instructed the officials to recognise the work under the employment guarantee programme and provide work to over one lakh labourers. She directed them to chalk out a plan for the successful implementation …
While the finance minister took care to express the commitment of his government to poor and vulnerable people while presenting the Union Budget for 2016–17, this stated commitment has not been backed by adequate increases in allocations to areas of critical interest to the poor. It is likely that resource …
