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. …
Agartala, March 15: Despite declining sanction of funds from the Centre, Tripura is all set to emerge as the best implementing state of MGNREGA scheme. Disclosing this to reporters, minister for rural development Naresh Jamatya said up to March 13 in the current financial year Tripura had succeeded in creating …
Convergence of the UPA scheme with Green Mission will provide livelihood to 3 m households through afforestation. The Centre has decided to extend its flagship rural jobs scheme to include afforestation as part of a move to create more durable assets through the programme that Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently …
The ‘three pond system’ set up for sewage management of dirty water in rural areas of Haryana’s Karnal district has been yielding better results. The Union Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation has asked the other States to consider this system as a role model and implement it in their …
Inequality in South Asia appears to be moderate when looking at standard indicators such as the Gini index, which are based on consumption expenditures per capita. But other pieces of evidence reveal enormous gaps, from extravagant wealth at one end to lack of access to the most basic services at …
This report is based on the employment and unemployment survey conducted in the 68th round of NSS during July 2011 to June 2012. This report presents information on selected aspects of employment and unemployment and some other features pertaining to people belonging to four social groups viz., Scheduled Tribe (ST), …
Seeking to save farmers from vagaries of Monsoon, the government will soon launch its ambitious rural irrigation scheme by linking villages through nearest possible sources of water. The scheme - Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sichai Yojana - will have water conservation and building of irrigation infrastructures at village-level as its key …
The Situation Assessment Survey of Agricultural Households in NSS 70th Round (January, 2013- December, 2013) was conducted as a repeat survey of Situation Assessment Survey, 2003 (59th round). The survey also aimed at capturing the condition of agricultural households in the country in the context of policies and programmes of …
This paper presents the results of a survey of over 4100 works created under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and over 4800 randomly selected users across 100 villages in 20 districts in Maharashtra. It has two goals: the first was to verify the existence of the …
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is approaching eight years of implementation. Since 2006, it has offered up to 100 days per year of guaranteed public works employment to tens of millions of rural Indian households. It is intended to augment the purchasing power of the rural …
The government at the Centre may have changed, but the performance of the flagship rural job guarantee scheme continues to remain dismal, with households not getting work for even one third of the mandated 100 days (annually) on an average so far this year. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment …
Around 3.5 lakh people of Goalpara district have been hit by the devastating floods, which claimed 20 lives. More than 73,000 affected people are still staying in 100 relief camps in the district. An official release said that Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today visited different relief camps set up in …
Of the 15.51 lakh households in Uttarakhand under the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA), 10.41 lakh have been provided with toilets. The State’s toilet coverage under the programme is about 67 per cent. Work on construction of toilets for the remaining 5,09,830 families will be facilitated through NBA and MNREGA funds, …
PANAJI: The agriculture department has adopted 25 villages in a bid to restore the agro-system of yesteryears through a multi-pronged approach of catering to the whole range of the farmers requirements. The agro-climatic requirement in villages has eroded over the years due to lack of interest in farming, shrinking space …
Material component under scheme may be raised up to 49% from 40% so that states take up bigger work To mitigate drought and drought-like situation in the country, rural development minister Nitin Gadkari has said that 50% of all works under the rural employment guarantee scheme, the Mahatma Gandhi National …
Despite the rains pouring their bounty across the state in the last fortnight, some 203 villages in Kutch continue to be in the category of semi water scarcity affected areas. These villages are located in the talukas of Abdasa and Lakhpat. These villages along with two talukas of Tharad and …
India may have little to feel proud about in the findings of UNDP’s Human Development Report for 2014, but the good news is that with ongoing rural employment and school education programmes and some serious discussions on universal healthcare over the last couple of years, it is moving in the …
Sanitation projects to reduce open defecation, increasing green cover and emphasis on creating assets form the crux of the Narendra Modi-led government's blueprint for redeploying UPA 's flagship social sector programme -the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). Top officials aware of the government's re-orientation roadmap for the …
Dovetailing the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) scheme with ecology, the Una Forest Department has raised a nursery of various forest plant species. Around 10 men and women daily wagers have raised 1.3 lakh saplings at the Ghandawal nursery of the Forest Department. “The process of filling …
