In this report, ESCAP explores the future of urbanization in Asia and the Pacific, focusing on the dynamic shifts in the region’s urban landscape. It highlights the region’s demographic transformations, including population ageing, and the persistent challenges of urban poverty and inequality. The analysis covers urban areas of all sizes, …
Ranchi, Oct. 10: Chief minister Arjun Munda today announced a number of measures to fight drought and curb hunger in the state. At a one-day regional meet on drought, Munda declared that farmers would soon get crop insurance policy claims, while the government would provide clean water to every remote …
ARNARAM POONAR & SUJATA RAGHAVAN Charkha Features THE definition of poverty has been at the core of discussions and commitments at the international level to address it and, by a logical conclusion, to eradicate it. This intent is the basis for the lofty Millennium Development Goals adopted by the UN …
The non-farm sector is fast emerging as an important component of developing rural economies, with an increasing number of rural workers seeking their livelihoods in this sector. The arguments for paying attention to this sector are gaining ground due to its perceived potential for absorbing a growing rural labour force, …
A CONFLICT has risen between the National Advisory Council (NAC), chaired by Ms Sonia Gandhi, and the rural development ministry over the time-frame for completing the BPL census. NAC members N C Saxena and Harsh Mander, in particular, want the head count to be completed by September 2011. The rural …
This report on the world hunger situation warns that many countries are going backwards on crucial hunger pledge, with more people under-nourished than a decade ago. In this scorecard China, ranked second out of the developing countries. This September, leaders are gathering in New York to assess progress on the …
ANGAMALY: Onam celebrations became more meaningful for KSEB workers in Thuravoor here when they donated a portion of their wages to enable a poor family to get an electrical connection.Moolan Jose of West Kidangoor near here was fortunate to get the connection to celebrate Onam, thanks to the humanitarian efforts …
The state government is determined to hike the compensation to farmers committing suicide and those dying due to natural calamities.The cabinet sub-committee, which was appointed to consider the compensation for deaths due to natural calamities, has suggested a hike of Rs1 lakh per death. However, implementation of the hike is …
Bhopal, Aug 18: On one hand Chief Minister is making announcement of new schemes for farmers, rural people and poor while on the other hand district administration is depriving the poor of their livelihood in the name of development. Rashtriya Jagaran Manch president Kameshwar Sharma informed that district mining office …
BHUBANESWAR: The Rs 2-a-kg rice scheme was launched by the Orissa Government to ensure food security to the poor.But what is happening is the opposite.The worst fallout is coarse grains cultivated dryland/rainfed areas are gradually turning fallow as the traditional coarse grain users no more consume it. This makes the …
Maoist violence is the consequence of increased atrocities against scheduled castes and scheduled tribes (especially in the central tribal belt) and widespread tribal unrest due to commercialisation of forest resources. Ignoring such analysis and acting primarily on reports by the Intelligence Bureau, which is not equipped to study the multiple …
This paper attempts a decomposition analysis of Poverty scenario in UP during 1993-94 and 2004-05. It was found that poverty has decreased but inequality has increased between these years. The main problems in the state are stark inter-region and intra-region differences. A positive observation is that the poorest region in …
BHUBANESWAR: AS many as 2,575 persons engaged in farming and agricultural activities committed suicide during a eight-year period between 2000 and 2008. To a question from Nihar Mahanand of the Congress in the Assembly today, Agriculture Minister Damodar Rout said that compared to this 38,299 suicide cases were reported during …
BHUBANESWAR: The National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) will be implemented in the state soon. This was decided at a highlevel meeting presided over by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik here today. The NRLM aims at addressing poverty and alleviating rural poverty by 2015. The scheme also targets to cover 50 percent …
The Approach Paper to the Eleventh Five-Year Plan (2007-12) has chosen 'faster and more inclusive growth' as its central theme. It recognised the need to make growth 'more inclusive' in terms of benefits of growth flowing to those sections of population, which have been bypassed by high rates of economic …
Convergence between any two schemes is a mutually beneficial proposition. That is why joint guidelines were issued by the Ministry of Environment and Forests and Ministry of Rural Development on January 9, 2009, to usher in convergence efficiently and effectively. The convergence between NAP and rural development programmes such as …
Until three years ago most people in Bundelkhand wanted to take the next train to Bhopal or Delhi. Today several villages are bereft of people of working age. Bundelkhand, spanning 13 districts in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, has been in the grip of a terrible drought for the past …
