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. …
The Sikkim government has launched a massive initiative to revive and restore dying natural springs to address the water problem, especially in the rural areas. It has led to a 15 per cent enhancement in spring discharges. Through the initiative called Dhara Vikas, the government has sucessfully revived 50 springs …
The Ministry of Rural Development has emphasised upon the need to improve the effectiveness of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in the state, both in terms of outcome and delivery mechanisms. The directions were given to the state Rural Development Department at the recently held meeting …
The dying Mampuzha river flowing through the panchayats of Olavanna, Peruvayal and Perumanna is set to get a fresh lease of life thanks to the joint efforts of the Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM), local self-government bodies and P T A Rahim MLA. The MLA has allotted …
A pilot project, "Kaam Maango Abhiyan', under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) will be implemented in the district from Friday wherein demand for work will be noted in advance and better schemes will be planned to give employment during the specified period. According to deputy collector, …
The Government of India has been implementing many social sector programmes like Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Gurantee Act (MGNREGA), National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM)/ Swarnajanyanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY), National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (SSA), Mid-Day Meal (MDM) Scheme, Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA) etc. to address …
New Delhi : At a time when Nitish Kumar and his party JD(U) are exploring their political options, with Kumar participating in Left convention on Wednesday, the Congress appears to be making all effort to reach out to the Bihar CM. In the latest attempt, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh …
Central report asks state government to initiate measures Out of 12,925 gram panchayats in the state, 9,558 have shown nil expenditure under various programmes, including MGNREGA, sponsored by the Union Government during the current financial year till October 7. The number of such panchayats during the same period last year …
Praise comes five years after it described the programme as a ‘policy barrier’ to economic development and poverty alleviation For the beleaguered UPA government, here are some words of praise. The flagship rural employment guarantee scheme has comes in for praise from the World Bank, five years after it described …
State govt plans to dig the land through MGNREGA scheme Assam government today said it plans to give solar fencing in Kaziranga National Park (KNP) to protect the wildlife from poachers. "We want to give solar fencing to protect the wildlife. We are planning to dig the land through MGNREGA …
The Reang tribe in Tripura, which practised shifting cultivation and still does to an extent, faces serious problems with the state government implementing measures to turn them into settled cultivators. This essay points out that government programmes have widened social disparities among the Reangs and brought in alternatives that cannot …
Keeping his promise to focus on creating durable assets under the UPA’s flagship rural employment guarantee programme, rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has made changes to the programme’s guidelines. In a letter sent to all chief ministers, Ramesh announced a clarification to the operational guidelines of the Mahatma Gandhi National …
Sanitation continues to remain India's biggest failure with a large proportion of the nation's rural population still defecating in the open says this India Rural Development Report 2012-13 The dynamics of political, economic and social change in rural India are complex and have been gaining prominence. In this context, the …
India’s sheer size and poverty have meant that addressing the needs of its hundreds of millions of poor and vulnerable citizens has preoccupied Indian policymakers since independence. Unsurprisingly, the mix of strategies, the resulting policy instruments to undergird them and their relative effectiveness have been a matter of contentious debate.
There has been a significant decline of 14.54% in providing employment to the households during 2011-12 as compared to the previous year 2010-11 finds this CAG performance audit report on Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Uttar Pradesh for the period 2007-12. The stand alone report of the …
Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh today informed that his Ministry has released Rs 62 crore for implementation of MNREGA in Arunachal Pradesh. He personally gave the information when Chief Minister Nabam Tuki called on him at his offices here this morning. They also discussed various issues related to …
Analysing the problem-ridden process of implementing the Forest Rights Act 2006 in Odisha, this paper points out that it has focused more on providing land rights to individual claimants, neglecting community forest rights, the rights in protected areas, and other such provisions. Even so, the number of titles granted to …
The Standing Committee on Rural Development (2012-2013) present the Forty-Second Report on Implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 of the Ministry of Rural Development (Department of Rural Development).
What if the average Indian was 30 per cent richer than the average Chinese? For one, India's per capita income would be $8,500 instead of $1,500 that it is today. That would also make India the world's second largest economy at close to $8 trillion. What if populist measures like …
The percentage of household provided 100 days employment under MGNREGA ranged from one to seven per cent during 2007-12. According to a Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report submitted to the state Assembly on Thursday Bihar was deprived of grant of Rs 9,684.24 crore during 2007-12 in the shape of …
