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. …
Forest ponds will be constructed to check the depleting groundwater and to harvest rainwater in Himachal Pradesh, state Forest Minister J.P. Nadda said Sunday. He said the 'van sarovars' or forest ponds will be constructed under the NREGA (National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) programme. "These would help check depleting water …
In a major boost to economic development of the rural areas of Darrang district, the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India has sanctioned an amout of Rs 12.83 crore for implementation of NREGA for the financial year 2009-10. This was stated in a communique of the Director (NREGA), Ministry …
Aug. 20: Eyeing on improving the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), the government will build panchayat ghars and Bharat Nirman Rajiv Gandhi Sewa Kendras across the country over the next three years. "The proposed panchayat ghars will act as the mini secretariat and a forum for …
Surabhi Agarwal : Two months after leaving Infosys Technologies, the company he helped establish 28 years ago, to take the reigns of the unique ID project, Nandan Nilekani on Thursday announced the project
Sreelatha Menon / New Delhi August 20, 2009, 1:06 IST Members protest, rural ministry assures it will not be so hereafter. The ministry of rural development is at the receiving end of criticism for holding in abeyance for a year the Employment Guarantee Council set up under the National Rural …
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: Even as the number of drought-hit districts in the country has risen to 207, several States have demanded that the limit of 100 days assured employment under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme be raised to 200 days as a drought relief measure. Bihar Chief Minister …
Anandita Singh Mankotia New Delhi: Rural workers under the National Rural Employment Guarantee (NREGA) scheme will now help usher in a broadband revolution in the country. In an innovative and ambitious project, the government has hit upon the idea of tweaking the scheme to lay a 12-lakh km, countrywide optic-fibre …
Interview with Jean Dreze, development economist. JEAN DREZE is an Indian development economist and a former member of the National Developmental Council. He is a member of the support group of the Right to Food campaign, an informal network of organisations and individuals committed to the realisation of the right …
Mihir Shah Envisioning NREGA-II is important to realise the unfulfilled dreams of NREGA-I, which has failed thus far to break free of the shackles of a debilitating past. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) promises a revolutionary demand-driven, people-centred development programme. Planning, implementation and social audit by gram sabhas …
NEW DELHI: Fourteen organisations have opposed the manner in which the United Progressive Alliance government has been rushing through the restructuring of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), which they say is against the spirit of the law and to the detriment of Dalits and the poor. Outlining the …
Solan: Apart from their brilliant academic track records Ankit Chaudhary, Rajinder Rana, Anchal, Devi, Anjali and a bunch of others like them in Nauni, a picturesque town nestled in Solan, 45km from Shimla, have one more thing in common. They are all workers labouring under NREGA.
Shimla: Grappling with the problem of monkeys and other wild animals destroying crops, the Himachal Pradesh government has requested the Centre to include the appointment of animal chasers under its flagship NREGA scheme.
MPs will head committees which will be set up to monitor various rural development schemes of the Centre, Rural Development Minister C P Joshi said answering supplementaries during Question Hour. "Orders in this regard would be issued soon," Joshi said amid thumping of desks by members. Members had long been …
Joseph Vackayil : Food security and agriculture issues are gaining importance in the wake of global food crisis and steep rise in food grain prices. India
Kapurthala: Executive Engineer, Drainage Department, Gurdial Singh today claimed here that weeds had been removed from Kali Bein especially areas of Kanjali wetland and Subhanpur. After the removal of weeds, water level has receded by several fee and flow of water was restored. Heb said stretch of Bein from Subhanpur …
