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. …
NASHIK: The forest department has begun preparations to generate seedlings for the massive tree plantation drive to be conduced over the next three years. The forest department will have to generate 170 lakh seedlings to be used over the next three years. The seedlings will be generated through NREGA (National …
Within six months of the launch of the Mukhya Mantri Jal Swavalamban Abhiyan (MJSA) by the Rajasthan government, water has begun to overflow at the anicut built in Charwa village of the Udaipur district. More than 93,000 low-cost water harvesting structures – contour trenches, mini percolation tank, field bundings, anicuts …
BAREILLY: The claim of residents of Saijna village that the three minor sisters found dead in a river nearby would have been alive if there had been a toilet at home reveals the continued shortfall in terms of toilets at individual houses in the district. A base-line survey conducted by …
Drought 2015-16 has affected more than 330 million people in more than 2.5 lakh villages of 266 districts from 11 states. It has had a devastating impact on people’s lives as it affected water availability, agriculture, livelihoods, food production and food security, natural resources and also put a huge burden …
The Standing Committee on Water Resources (2015-16) present the Tenth Report on “Repair, Renovation and Restoration of Water Bodies- Encroachment on Water Bodies and Steps Required to Remove the Encroachment and Restore the Water Bodies”. The Committee initially took up the subject “Repair, Renovation and Restoration of Water Bodies” in …
DEHRADUN: The springs which are known to be fountainhead of all the rivers are drying up in the state. However the state government has not taken any initiative to revive them so far. However hope is rekindled this time, as chief secretary Shatrughan Singh assured concrete action when he came …
The state government has decided to rejuvenate the river bed of Gangeshwari river in Bankura under MNREGA and has appointed Kalyan Rudra to inspect the river bed for the purpose. The 20-22 kilometre Gangeshwari river has been lying dry for the last few years.This river flows through four blocks of …
NEW DELHI: The Centre may be pro-active in extending financial assistance to drought-hit states, but activists who visited the affected areas to monitor the situation have found that the compliance of the Supreme Court order on implementing various central schemes to provide relief to distressed farmers remained absent on the …
The Centre has constituted a team of officers to visit selected districts of western Uttar Pradesh particularly Meerut and Muzaffarnagar to study status of irrigation development and implementation of Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojna. The members are - CM Pandey (additional commissioner, department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare), GN Sharma, …
The first Common Review Mission (CRM) was constituted by the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India with the objective of reviewing the implementation of Rural Development programmes. The Mission was led by Shri. Sumit Bose and consisted of retired Secretaries to Government of India, academics and technical experts drawn …
India is reeling under an intense drought situation which has affected close to 330 million people from 10 states. Bad monsoons and weak policies around water security have further compounded the problem and precipitated a crisis. Rising temperatures and acute water shortages are adversely affecting human health as well as …
Rajasthan MP from Kota Om Birla has demanded the interlinking of rivers in eastern Rajasthan as one of the measures to deal with the severe water crisis in the desert state. Birla, while participating in the debate over drought in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, suggested the interlinking of rivers …
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), …
Aurangabad: Drought and debt continue to claim lives in Marathwada with as many as 65 farmers having committed suicide in the first three weeks of April. With this, the total number of farmer suicide cases in the region this year has risen to 338. The highest number of farmer suicides …
New Delhi: The Centre on Tuesday informed the Supreme Court that around 33 crore people in 256 districts of 10 states are affected due to drought. The government said that has so far released Rs.19,555 crore (out of total amount 38,500cr allotted under MNREGA) in current financial year to drought …
The Supreme Court on Thursday severely pulled up the states of Gujarat, Bihar and Haryana for not declaring drought even though there was deficient rainfall and a fall in the production of foodgrains. Voicing anguish over the apathy of the state governments in refusing to accept that there was a …
A taskforce set up by Niti Aayog on eliminating poverty released its report dealing in detail on how key government initiatives can contribute to uplift of poor, but stopped short of determining the poverty line as practised traditionally. Instead of the traditional practice of determining the poverty line, the report …
This paper uses panel data to analyze factors that contributed to the rapid decline in poverty in India between 2005 and 2012. The analysis employs a nonparametric decomposition method that measures the relative contributions of different components of household livelihoods to observed changes in poverty. The results show that poverty …
Industry and farmer bodies have welcomed the budget's focus on expansion of irrigation across the country, which is likely to irrigate an additional lakh hectares. Currently, over 60 % of the total 142 million hectares of farm land in the country is not covered under irrigation. "This will be a …
Social protection and climate change programmes are two public policy responses that governments use to address the challenges of poverty, climate vulnerability and gender inequality. Social protection programmes provide a safety net for households by providing cash/asset transfers and labour market instruments to address the immediate and underlying socio-economic risks …
