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. …
Is India doing marvellously well, or is it failing terribly? Depending on whom you speak to, you could pick up either of those answers with some frequency. One story, very popular among a minority but a large enough group—of Indians who are doing very well (and among the media that …
JAIPUR: In Rajasthan only 40% of rural household have toilets and less than 13% of the population in the state have access to it. Acting on this alarming situation, the state government has drafted a policy on rural sanitation and hygiene, a strategy for achieving the vision of " Nirmal …
JAIPUR: After the Jan Lokpal Bill and the Public Grievance Redressal Bill it is the national mining policy that is most discussed. This is true for this state too. At a recent public hearing, a group of like-minded people prepared a charter of demands to be incorporated in the mining …
Ramesh to also consider increasing funding to states for admin reforms The government’s flagship rural employment programme may soon get a dedicated legal setup that would enable state governments to fast-track conviction of erring officials and panchayat heads implementing the scheme. The rural development ministry, which implements the Mahatma Gandhi …
The Centre’s flagship rural employment programme will soon come under the scrutiny of the national auditor, which will look into its implementation in the 12 states that receive the largest share of funds. The Comptroller and Auditor General of India will scrutinise the expenditure and outcome of the public works …
New Delhi The rural development ministry has asked for a special audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General of the R40,000-crore annual budget of the National Rural Employment Programme. The audit, rural development minister Jairam Ramesh said, will also include other major programmes like the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana …
In view of a recent court order, ruling that the payments made under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act cannot be lower than those prescribed under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has suggested that amendments be made in both these Acts to bring them in …
A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the alleged scam in Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) funds in UP now appears to be inevitable. While the Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh shot another letter to the Mayawati government on Thursday insisting that the state government …
This year's Human Development Report focuses on the challenge of sustainable and equitable progress and calls for addressing them together. It identifies policies that could spur mutually reinforcing progress towards these interlinked goals. Development progress in the world’s poorest countries could be halted or even reversed by mid-century unless bold …
This paper has studied rural employment diversification in India and across major states using NSSO data at household level for the period 1983 and 2009-10. Factors affecting rural employment diversification towards non-farm sector have also been studied. Analysis has shown that the non-farm sector has consistently grown over time and …
JAMMU: For providing adequate drinking water facilities to Dharp and Dharp Kothey SC basti Government has earmarked ` 1.49 crore for digging of 10000 gallon discharge capacity deep drill tube well, 30000 gallon storage capacity Over Head Tank. This was stated by the Minister for Revenue, Raman Bhalla while addressing …
The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), as a part of its 66th round survey programme during the period July 2009 - June 2010, carried out an all-India household survey on the subject of employment and unemployment in India. In this survey, the nation-wide enquiry was conducted to generate estimates of …
Guwahati: The Union Rural Development Ministry has instructed Assam government to shift the focus of implementation of MNREGA scheme from building roads to other sectors like irrigation, restoration of water bodies, plantation and improvement of forest cover. The Ministry has provided Rs 1100 crore to Assam under MNREGA scheme for …
Lucknow In a fresh war of words between the Centre and Uttar Pradesh, state chief minister Mayawati has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh accusing his Cabinet colleague Jairam Ramesh of scoring political points by alleging misuse of Mahatama Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) funds received by the …
Lucknow Four days after Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh wrote to her seeking “concurrence for a CBI probe” into alleged embezzlement of MNREGA funds in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Mayawati today wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh accusing the minister of having “a preconceived agenda”. Describing Ramesh’s letter …
Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh here on Thursday said that his department has asked the CAG to do performance audit of all the rural development schemes in 11 states including Assam. Informing that the Centre was spending over `1,00,000 crore annually on rural development, Mr Ramesh said, “My ministry has …
Flagship Schemes Will Be Given Funds Linked To Usage Due To Cash Crunch New Delhi: Facing a tight financial situation, the government is thinking of trimming the payout to its mega flagship schemes such as Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) and the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA). While …
LUCKNOW: Five days after Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi accused Mayawati government in UP of mega-scale corruption in the centrally sponsored schemes, union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has shot off a letter to UP chief minister Mayawati citing a huge scam in the MNREGA scheme in the state. According …
B K Chaturvedi committee’s recommendations may form part of the final 12th Plan document. One common complaint that most states aired at the just-concluded National Development Council meeting was the inflexibility of certain centrally-sponsored schemes (CSS) when it came to addressing local requirements. This was against the backdrop of a …
Accusing the Bahujan Samaj Party government in Uttar Pradesh of engineering a large-scale corruption in the centrally sponsored schemes, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said that lion's share of fund under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) or mid-day meal project is siphoned off. He also …
