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 …
Along with the plan for an armed offensive, the Centre is going ahead with its growth agenda in its fight against Maoists. The provocation follows release of figures pertaining to UPA's flagship scheme
For extending its scope through convergence with other departments NEW DELHI: Going ahead with its objective of extending the scope of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) through convergence with other departments, the Centre has accepted a number of recommendations of the State governments as job works to be …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government is in a quandary whether to finalise the BPL list as per the 2002 survey or to go for a fresh census. Terming the 1997 BPL list as `Congress list
THE UPA government has refused to raise the number of job days that it provides under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) though it would allow an extra 50 days employment in drought-hit regions on a case-to-case basis from a separate fund. Last month, the Empowered Group of Ministers …
Ahead of the much-awaited Suresh Tendulkar committee report on poverty estimation, another committee appointed by the rural development ministry has come out with its report. The committee, headed by N.C. Saxena, says that the percentage of rural population below the poverty line (BPL) could be as high as 50 per …
JAIPUR: The recommendations of a group of experts set up by the Union Rural Development Ministry to suggest a methodology for identifying the poor have been welcomed by activist groups and experts in Rajasthan. However, they have suggested wider deliberations on the matter and extension of the time limit for …
The Union Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Ministry and the Rajasthan Government are giving final touches to a mega event to mark the half century of Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) at Nagaur, where on October 2, 1959, Jawarharlal Nehru, as Prime Minister inaugurated the three-tier Panchayati Raj System in the …
An expert group of the Rural Development Ministry on the methodology for conducting the BPL census for the 11th Five Year Plan has suggested to the Orissa government that the actual level of BPL population in the state should be revised upwards to 84.47 per cent from the present level …
Cabinet has already approved the Bill. Union Rural Development Minister C P Joshi today said the Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill, certain provisions of which were earlier opposed by Trinamool Congress chief and Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee, was ready to go to Parliament any time. He told reporters here that the …
Land belonging to Scheduled Castes and/or Scheduled Tribes will be the first to be earmarked for works under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and once this is saturated, only then land belonging to small and marginal farmers will be taken up. These are the amended guidelines issued by the …
To include private land of small farmers, freezing wages the rural development ministry recently issued a notification expanding the scope of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (nregs) to allow asset creation on private land of small and marginal farmers. The work, the notification said, will include
With Centre's plan to launch National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) by the end of the year, the Ministry of Rural Development has decided to set up 500 Rural Self-employment Training Institutes (RSETI), almost one in each rural district of the country. The Centre has already granted approval for setting up …
Panchayat and Rural Development Minister, Gopal Bhargav met the Union Rural Development Minister, CP Joshi here today and requested the latter to accord early sanction to the Rs 791 crore pending proposals of nine districts under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana. Bhargav also urged the Union Rural Development Minister …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called for an effective mechanism to oversee various poverty alleviation programmes considering that the government makes a sizable allocation for them every year. Addressing a conference of state ministers of rural development and panchayati raj in the Capital, the Prime Minister said allocations for poverty …
New Delhi: The Centre is mulling health insurance cover for all NREGA workers, a move which may incur a huge recurring expenditure on UPA, but also holds the potential to deepen
AMIT AGNIHOTRI Sept. 4: Concerned over of the lacunae in the implementation of its schemes, especially the flagship NREGS, the rural development ministry will reconstitute the district-level vigilance and monitoring committees. The ministry has written to all state governments and UTs to reconstitute these committees following the Constitution of the …
