The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
The performance of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Rajasthan was debated for its stupendous performance in the initial years of the scheme, but also for the relative sharp decline after 2010. Based on a large representative primary survey, this paper argues that the decline in performance of this scheme …
The Cabinet sub-committee which is monitoring action to be taken on the Lokayukta report on illegal mining, has decided to propose an amendment to the law to accord more powers to Special Investigation Team (SIT). The sub-committee headed by Minister for Rural Development H K Patil has been contemplating ways …
The Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation will launch a Nationwide Real Time Monitoring of use of toilets from January 2015. The Monitoring System will be unveiled to give a big push to Swachh Bharat Mission, which aims at attaining a 100% Open Defecation Free India by 2019. People across …
The National Democratic Alliance’s latest Ordinance to amend the Land Acquisition Act could turn out to be a unifying factor for the Opposition to take on the government. A day after the Union Cabinet approved the amendment to the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and …
For PPP projects, clause on consent requirement could be abolished or brought down to 50% of land owners, against the current 70% To make the land acquisition Act of 2013 industry-friendly, the government is likely to take the ordinance route for amending the provisions on land owners' consent. The main …
2.5Cr Families Have One-Room Kuchha Houses While 1.8Cr Live In 2-Room Dwellings As many as 4.3 crore families in rural India do not have a house, with West Bengal leading the table followed by Bihar in yet another evidence of the eastern region's backwardness. Bengal has as many as 35 …
A-unit allocation proposed to be raised from Rs 70,000 to Rs 2,00,000 in plains With the National Democratic Alliance government aiming to provide pucca houses to all by India's 75th Independence Day (2022), the rural development ministry is keen to increase the a-unit assistance for construction of houses to at …
Need for consent of affected families and social-impact assessment could go The National Democratic Alliance government is planning to exempt public-private partnership (PPP) projects from the need to obtain consent of affected families and the mandatory social-impact assessment, through amendments to the land acquisition law. In the Bill put up …
The drinking water and sanitation ministry has set a target of installing 20,000 solar power-based pumping systems in tribal and inaccessible hamlets/ habitation during this financial year to provide potable piped water to the locals. In such areas, piped drinking water is almost impossible due to non-availability of electricity. As …
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 …
State Potable Water and Sanitation Minister Mantri Prasad Naithani said that the amount allocated for construction of toilets under Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA) is inadequate and that the State Government will raise this issue with the Central Government. Naithani said this at the launch of the National Sanitation Awareness Campaign …
The Union Minister of Rural Development and Drinking Water and Sanitation Shri Nitin Gadkari said that Swachh Bharat Mission will be converted into a mass movement to make India an open defecation free country in Five Years. Addressing a Joint Press conference with the Urban Development Minister Shri M. Venkaiah …
The central rural skilling programme Aajeevika Skills launched by the previous government is getting a makeover, with a new name, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana, and changes including reduction in the minimum entry age to 15 years from 18 years. Besides, skills imparted under the programme will now be …
Ranchi: Union minister Nitin Gadkari said on Monday that the Narendra Modi government was weighing amendments in the land acquisition act to speed up development projects. The announcement made activists in the state raise questions about rehabilitation package and human rights. Gadkari said many projects were delayed because of certain …
Claiming that he was “confused”, Union rural development minister Nitin Gadkari is seeking to build “consensus” to bring changes in the Land Acquisition Act to make it more investor-friendly. The minister stated that there were “contradictory views” within political parties, who want changes in the legislation. The minister had told …
Union Minister for Rural Development, Sanitation, Drinking Water and Panchayat Raj, Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday approved 28 rural road projects worth Rs438 crore for building roads in Leh and Kargil districts in Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna (PMGSY). A total of 350 …
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 …
Even as it waits for feedback from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) on its list of suggested amendments to the new Land Acquisition Act, the Rural Development Ministry has started working on a plan B that would make the Act less stringent. It would also ease the process of acquiring …
Moving a step towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ target, the Rural Development ministry on Tuesday proposed a hike in the allocation for constructing toilets in rural areas, aimed at providing better sanitation facilities in individual households, schools and anganwadis. “We have prepared a proposal to increase the …
Acting on a petition demanding government assessment of the Thoubal-Kasom Khullen road and its impact in Manipur, the Gauhati high court has issued a notice to project sponsor Asian Development Bank (ADB). The 47-km road, which passes through Thoubal, Senapati and Ukhrul districts, is part of the Union DoNER ministry's …
