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, …
Since Independence, an era marked largely by limited income and growth, the Government of India has been pursuing its policies for economic welfare with reference to a nutrition-based subsistence norm. The concept and method of estimating poverty has come in for criticism in recent years in the context of economic …
How have women been coping in the aftermath of farmer suicides in Punjab? This article is based on detailed interviews with 32 women in three districts of the state. Accosting the reality of women caught in the vortex of the agrarian crisis, one painfully comes to terms with the newer …
The Census of 2002 to identify the poor in rural areas of India was the third in a quinquennial series. However, it has been appropriately criticised. This paper elaborates on the criticisms, and proposes an alternative set of criteria and methodology for conducting the next (now overdue) census of the …
Bankura by now has become synonymous with Basudeb Acharia. For the eight-time MP from this constituency in West Bengal, increasing connectivity between his home turf and the rest of the country has been of foremost importance. He argues that better connectivity spurs development. Acharia being chairman of the parliamentary central …
The 61st round (2004-05) of the National Sample Survey showed that there was a turnaround in employment growth in rural India after a phase of jobless growth during the 1990s. Paradoxically, this employment growth occurred during a period of widespread distress in the agricultural sector with low productivity, price instability …
Tuticorin: As many as 260 villagers of M. Venkatesapuram and Vallinayagapuram of Vilathikulam Taluk staged a protest on Monday in front of the collectorate here on Monday against the mishandling of funds by the officials concerned under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act was …
Dhanya Matsa |ENS FOR the residents of three panchayats under the Puzhal Union in Tiruvallur District, National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has become an integral part of their livelihood, but small industries situated there are wooing people from across Tamil Nadu and nearby Andhra Pradesh in search of cheap …
The SGSY is being recast. The new name given is National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM). Mission model is the newer approach as it the trend or practice with several of our flagship programmes. The aim, as the NRLM draft claims, is to overcome the limitations of SGSY by restructuring it …
The severity of underemployment has been high in rural areas. Considering the severity of the rural unemployment problem, various special employment programmes have been introduced by the Government of India to provide employment opportunities through the creation and strengthening of rural infrastructure. One such employment programme was the Employment Assurance …
In sustaining rural livelihood, sustainability of credit provisioning operation is highly essential. It assumes more significance in the case of developing nations with low per capita income and high level of poverty. It is also important to note that in many of the developing nations the financial viability of rural …
The Election Commission (EC) has allowed continuation of subsidy to the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) for supply of free power to farm sector and poor sections of society. The Punjab government had sought the permission of the EC in this respect. The commission has also allowed the charging of …
BANGALORE: With 318 farmers committing suicide this financial year (2008-09) in Karnataka, political parties are likely to frame their poll strategies with a focus on the plethora of problems haunting the agricultural sector if they wish to win the rural vote in the coming Lok Sabha elections. This is not …
Jamshedpur, March 25: The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) has come up with a state focus paper (2009-10) identifying a credit potential of Rs 7,708 crore in key farm sectors of Jharkhand. With the idea to speed up financial inclusion among the rural population, Nabard conducted a …
Hyderabad: Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief N Chandrababu Naidu has promised to give the same push to agiculture that he had given the IT sector in his earlier stint as Andhra Pradesh chief minister.
Migration occurs in search of survival, fulfilment and a better life. Among the classified migrants, Census 2001 reported that rural out-migrants constituted the majority of 75.80 per cent. Majority of migration is from one rural area to another due to 'marriage' in the case of females and 'in search of …
