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. …
JAMMU: Asking the officers to ensure effective implementation of MGNREGA in the State, the Minister for Rural Development, Law, Justice, Panchayati Raj and Parliamentary Affairs, Ali Mohammad Sagar today emphasized the need to put in place an effective mechanism to enforce transparency and accountability in the use of funds earmarked …
The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre if it was willing to consider opening its purse strings to pay higher wages to agricultural labourers employed under its flagship job guarantee scheme Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA). The thought got provoked after the Karnataka High Court on …
Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has said that the Union Government will not exercise any discrimination with States in rural development programmes. He said the Union Government will give clearance to all the important proposals to be sent to it regarding rural development and will not allow any fund …
Calling for urgent measures to provide sanitation facility across the country, Union Minister of Rural Development Jairam Ramesh has pointed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that in addition to malnutrition another distressing national shame which India can't live with is open defecation. Mr. Ramesh, who also controls the Department of …
KOLKATA, 10 JAN: The new minister for panchayat and rural development department, Mr Subrata Mukherjee, today warned gram panchayats that funds in future would be withheld in case of poor performance. Ahead of the panchayat polls the performance list of the gram panchayats are sure to come in handy since …
It is election time, perhaps even time for mid-term polls, after the assembly elections in February. Time, therefore, for a mid-term review of the UPA 2’s policies. Much has been written about the lack of leadership on the part of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. So in interests of balance and …
Nandigram: Five years after a movement that catapulted it into spotlight at the national level and spelt the beginning of the end of the 34-year Left rule, Nandigram is still counting the losses of the bloody anti-land acquisition movement. Development is at a standstill and many of those who had …
Nandigram, 3 Jan: Five years after a movement that catapulted it into the national spotlight and spelt the beginning of the end of the 34-year Left rule, Nandigram is still counting the losses of the bloody anti-land acquisition movement. Development is at a standstill and many of those who had …
DURGAPUR, 2 JAN: The Burdwan District Vigilance Monitoring Committee, in its first meeting today, found out that the district's performance in the MGNREGA has gone down from the previous year. "This may lead to return of allotted fund," said Mr Mukul Roy, a Rajya Sabha MP and Union minister of …
The objective of this report is to account for variations in the success of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Act (MGNREGA) in different states across India. It combines a quantitative analysis with qualitative data obtained from over 70 interviews with government officials, academics, journalists, NGOs, international governmental organizations and …
This report contains 56 recommendations to put sustainable development into practice and to mainstream it into economic policy as quickly as possible. It includes a call for governments and international organizations to increase the resources allocated to adaptation and disaster risk reduction and integrate resilience planning into their development budgets …
Arghyam, a non-profit foundation focusing on domestic water and sanitation, has published a document highlighting a water quality management (WQM) framework for rural areas. The framework lays out a phased and process-driven approach to WQM in rural areas and is based on work done by 12 prominent non-governmental organisations (NGOs) …
Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has rejected Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar’s suggestion on modifying MGNREGA’s guidelines, saying it has not impacted the availability of workers for the farm sector. Ramesh has told Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that on the contrary it has led to major increase in farm wages and …
Anand (Gujarat) India continues to be the largest milk producing nation, according to the report of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) for 2010-11. The country’s estimated milk production for the period stood at 121 million tonne (mt), close to 17% of the world’s total produce. During the year, dairy …
JAIPUR: The Rajasthan High Court on Tuesday directed the state government to name those officials who made illegal allotments in the catchment area of Ramgarh dam and also the list of those influential persons who got the land in that area. Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari asked the government to file …
Wants To Stop States From Hijacking Credit New Delhi: The Union rural development ministry has decided to ape Planning Commission’s discussion with states for annual finances to send a stronger message about Centre’s authorship on welfare schemes, a move aimed at addressing the longstanding gripe of Congress that states were …
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s flexing of the muscle appears to be yielding dividend, as the state after securing an economic package of `8,750 crores from the Centre is soon likely to get another `2,000-crore from the Union ministry of rural development for implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural …
With less than a week left, the UPA government seems to be split on the issue of appealing against the Karnataka High Court’s order stating that wages under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act have to be fixed as per Minimum Wages Act. The Special Leave Petition challenging …
Independent agency to assess NREGA implementation in Meghalaya SHILLONG: The State Government is contemplating creation of an independent agency for social audit to assess the various Central flagship programmes being implemented in the State. Initially, the Government is planning to create this independent agency to assess the implementation of the …
