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 …
Asian Development Bank will provide USD 275 million loan for improving rural road connectivity in five states in the country. "The Government of India and ADB today signed a USD 275 million loan agreement to continue improving rural roads in five states including Assam, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and West …
Bhadrak: The much-talked bio-toilets have found few takers in Bhadrak district. The ambitious project meant to free the country from open defecation was launched by the ministry of rural development at Dhamra in Bhadrak. Minister for chemical and fertilizers Srikant Jena had inaugurated it in the presence of Union minister …
The Rural Connectivity Division of the Ministry of Rural Development has directed the in charge, Pradham Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), J&K;, to plant fruit-bearing and shelter-giving trees on either side of the roads being built under the scheme. The initial expenditure for plantation and maintenance would be done under …
To clarify doubts about the contentious ‘retrospective clause’ in the new Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition Act, 2013, and prevent possible abuse, the government is set to issue clarifications in the form of an advisory, based on opinion of Solicitor General Mohan Parasaran. The Act was …
The Ministry of Rural Development finds itself in a bit of a spot after the Haryana government issued a notice for land acquisition recently, notifying acquisition under the old Land Acquisition Act of 1894. The notice came to the ministry’s attention when it was issued and published in newspapers on …
India is the world's largest open air lavatory with over 620 million people practising open defecation in the country. Seeking to address this persisting problem, the UPA government has widened the scope of its flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) to include works relating to rural sanitation …
The new act sets compensation limits and resettlement of affected families India’s new land acquisition Act came into force on Wednesday, mandating compensation limits and the resettlement and rehabilitation of affected families, a critical reform aimed at making the process fairer and more transparent. However, the amendment of 13 different …
With the new Land Act coming in force from Wednesday, Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh sought to alley apprehensions of the industry in purchase of land. The minister said that there is no bar whatsoever on purchase of private land. The new law on land has replaced the earlier …
New Delhi : Following parliament approval in September last year, the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013, came into force on Wednesday, replacing more than a century-old Land Acquisition Act, 1894. Henceforth, states would able to frame laws in conformity with new …
Madhav Gadgil, eminent ecologist, has alleged that 1,700 illegal quarries are operating in the crest line of sensitive areas of the Western Ghats in Kerala. Dr. Gadgil, who had chaired the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel, the report of which led to an uproar in the State, was speaking at …
Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Sunday described the Gadgil panel report on the Western Ghats as the “roadmap” for conservation of the ecologically-sensitive hills and hoped it could be resurrected for a “dispassionate debate” once the heat and dust of the next Lok Sabha elections settled. Speaking at …
The Maharashtra Government has received Rs 489 crore to improve the rural road network under the Prime Minister’s Gram Sadak Yojana–II . Initially, Maharashtra had received little Union Government assistance under the scheme compared to other states, as the State’s road connectivity was considered satisfactory. However, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan …
The Centre today approved upgrade of over 1,010 km of rural road and 19 bridges in the state at a cost of Rs 960 crore under the Pradhan Mantri Gramin Sadak Yojana (PMGSY)-II. While disclosing this here today, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda thanked the UPA president Sonia Gandhi and …
The UPA government’s ambitious Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act was notified on Tuesday, and will come into effect from January 1 next year. The rules to the Act, however, are yet to finalised. The Act, which replaces the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, …
States that increase minimum wage will have to bear extra cost from their own resources A committee set up by the Ministry of Rural Development to revise wages under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) has offered suggestions that are likely to iron out long-standing issues relating …
Asking him to reconsider budget cuts for the government’s flagship social sector schemes, including guranted work for people in rural areas under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has written to Finance Minister P Chidambaram expressing concern that the “huge cuts” proposed …
New Delhi : The Rural Development Ministry has gone into an overdrive before next year’s Lok Sabha election to bring in reforms in the government’s flagship job guarantee scheme, apparently to counter criticism of the scheme not meeting its mark. Guidelines for convergence of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee …
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 Planning Commission has convened a high-level meeting of the ministries concerned on Thursday to discuss the issues related to mining, including the ban on such activities in some states, to boost the output. A high-level meeting of the ministries concerned is scheduled on November 7 to discuss the issues …
States and the Centre often speak in different tones. But now, statistics reveal that even their “facts” differ: there exists a huge disparity between the statistics submitted by states to the Centre on rural households under sanitation cover and the census. In their submission to the union ministry of water …
