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 …
Sreelatha Menon / New Delhi August 21, 2009, 0:29 IST It was Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary and the signature scheme of the UPA government, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme, was made to wear the colours of the ruling Congress party. The rural development ministry today organised a workshop on …
HYDERABAD: The Centre will soon announce a major policy decision and a package of new initiatives to help farmers in the drought-hit parts across India, said Union Minister of State for Rural Development Sisir Kumar Adhikari. The package was likely to include subsidised electricity and/or diesel to help farmers run …
Hyderabad, Aug. 10 With drought-like situation prevailing in most parts of the country, the Union Government is fine-tuning a special policy initiative within the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS).
MPs will head committees which will be set up to monitor various rural development schemes of the Centre, Rural Development Minister C P Joshi said answering supplementaries during Question Hour. "Orders in this regard would be issued soon," Joshi said amid thumping of desks by members. Members had long been …
THE ambit of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme has been significantly expanded by allowing under it work done on private land belonging to small and marginal farmers to create assets. Small and marginal farmers are those with landholding of less than two hectares. Together, they constitute 80% of farm …
In a disclosure that can put the States on the back foot, the Outcome Budget of Rural Development Ministry shows that States did not spend a whopping Rs 18,000 crore out of their total allocation of Rs 56,854 crore in the last fiscal. The un-utilisation of almost one third of …
The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) may have returned to power on the might of its flagship programmes in its last term, but one of its major programmes, the Bharat Nirman, is caught in delays. Refusing to own the whole responsibility, the Centre has also held the states responsible. Highly-placed official …
AMIT AGNIHOTRI Rural development minister C.P. Joshi has blamed the states for not following the spirit of the ambitious National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in its spirit. "The states are not following the act in its spirit which gives the poor right to demand at least 100 days work …
BHUBANESWAR: Despite a decade since its inception, the Centrally-sponsored Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) has failed to make its mark in Orissa, thanks to the inability of the State Government to take it to the people
MUKESH RANJAN A new avatar of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is on the anvil NREGS-II is aimed at ensuring durable asset creation and taking the programme from its present form of wage employment to self-employment The launch of the refurbished flagship programme of the government will coincide …
The government's flagship job security scheme - the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (nrega) -is set to undergo major changes by opening its doors to skilled labour and laying emphasis on creation of 'permanent' or 'viewable' assets. The idea, first mooted by Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia some …
The presidents urged to keep their villages clean and tidy Good job: A. Suganthi, Collector, honouring one of the Nirmal Gram Puraskar awardees in Pudukottai. PUDUKOTTAI: District Collector A. Suganthi, honoured the 81 panchayat presidents of Pudukottai district, recipients of Nirmal Gram Puraskar Award, at the Collectorate here on Monday. …
Saubhadro Chatterji / New Delhi July 1, 2009, 0:27 IST The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), which is believed to have earned political benefits for the Congress in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, will be modified to plug the loopholes and make the officials more accountable. A draft amendment …
Sreelatha Menon / New Delhi June 11, 2009, 0:21 IST Three political parties and four ministers, three of them first-time MPs, are sharing the Ministry of Rural Development, which probably means the most to the government in terms of Budget allocations, as well as recognition for its work for the …
Rajat Roy / Kolkata June 03, 2009, 1:13 IST The Union government is on a social sector roll. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee had indicated that the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government was going to make the social sector the centrepiece of the upcoming Budget. Now the Ministry of Rural Development …
