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 …
MUKESH RANJAN If the Planning Commission has its way, then the allocations for such schemes under the rural development ministry would not see any change in the Budget for 2010-11 from that of the last year With allocations already surpassing the 11th Plan (2007-12) target in the fourth year itself, …
Delay in payment of wages is proving to be the biggest block in the implementation of UPA flagship NREGA. "I think delay in payment of wages to NREGA workers is the biggest problem. We are unable to handle it," Union minister for rural development C.P. Joshi said on Monday. "There …
Saubhadro Chatterji / New Delhi January 19, 2010, 0:42 IST After the infrastructure sector, the public-private partnership (PPP) model will be extended to rural job generation as well. The initial success of the flagship National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) has prompted the rural development ministry to seek a four-fold increase …
Saubhadro Chatterji / New Delhi January 18, 2010, 0:07 IST Despite fiscal deficit touching 6.8 per cent and rising, the second United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government will make social sector spending the centrepiece of Budget 2010-11. To pay for this, more disinvestment of state-run enterprises would become necessary in the …
SHILLONG, Jan 13: Lapses in implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) have prompted the Union Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) to stop allocating funds to Meghalaya. The ministry recently found that the Public Works Department (PWD) was not able to implement the scheme properly. Confirming the news, …
The Centre will approve the much-awaited new criteria for identifying the Below Poverty Line (BPL) population before the 2009-10 General Budget. The draft of the new set of rules has been formulated and Union rural development minister C P Joshi is likely to place it before the Cabinet in its …
Taking forward the ambitious Provision of Urban Amenities in Rural Areas (PURA) scheme envisaged by former President A P J Abdul Kalam, the government will now woo the private sector to provide urban amenities in the rural heartland. The Rural Development Ministry is ready with a proposal to give 35 …
In a game-changing equation between the banks and the rural poor, the banks which were earlier demanding that the government pay for opening bank accounts and disbursing wages to the poor under the NREGS are now competing with each other to disburse the wages under the scheme in Rajasthan and …
The 8th Kaziranga Elephant Festival got under way at Mihimukh, Kaziranga today. The SHG Mela was inaugurated by the Rural Developement Minister Chandan Brahma today. A total of 135 stalls of the SHGs were opened in the Mela. A large number of visitors thronged the festival ground since morning today. …
Eyeing top position in the Mahatama Gandhi NREGS implementation, the state government has written a letter to the Union Rural Development Ministry, asking it to announce awards for the
Rural Development Minister C P Joshi said on Thursday that government was considering interlinking its rural sanitation programme with NREGA to eradicateopen defecation by 2010. Joshi said interlinking would lead to utilisation of funds available under material and labour components of NREGA and thereby expedite the programme. The government
Empty protest no substitute for rational framework In a voluminous 300-page report, a committee on agrarian relations and land reforms, headed by the Union rural development minister, has found fault with practically every aspect of land policy in India, attributing the rise of Naxalism, tribal and agrarian unrest entirely to …
The Union Government, especially the Ministry for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj deserve all credit for declaring 2009-2010 the year of the Gram Sabha
A group of NGOs have asked the Centre to set up a non-Governmental authority for monitoring, evaluation and grievance redressal related to implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. However, the Ministry of Rural Development did not seem ready to accept the proposal. One of the architects of the proposal, …
An amount of Rs 2.8 crore has been spent in three districts of Jammu, Kathua and Samba under NREGA till date in the current financial year. This was stated during a meeting to review the implementation of NREGA in the three districts held under the chairmanship of the Minister for …
