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 Rs 50,000-cr scheme will be for skilled rural workers. Even as the UPA government's flagship programme, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), is yet to deliver the desired results, the rural development ministry is giving shape to another ambitious scheme to generate jobs. The target this time is …
Against the Planning Commission's and the ministry of panchayati raj's views of abolition of District Rural Development Agency (DRDA), the ministry of rural development has initiated process for restructuring of DRDAs. Last month, the rural development ministry had asked the states and Union Territories to send suggestions on the restructuring …
On rural development, MPs' hearts may be full but during debate, Lok Sabha is empty SEEMA CHISHTI NEW DELHI, APRIL 23: The Government plugs Bharat Nirman as the Nayi Azadi in TV spots during IPL matches, rides on the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act as its shining showpiece. All political …
Over 40 thousand Village Water and Sanitation Committees have been constituted in the state under Total Sanitation Campaign. Importantly, all the members of the committees are women. Giving this information, Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Rustam Singh said that cent percent participation of women has been ensured in these committees …
The Union Ministry of Rural Development has granted Rs 20.84 lakh to Goa as release of part payment of the first installment of the Central share for the implementation of the Swarnjayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana (SGSY) during the current financial year (2008-09). Of the two District Rural Development Agencies (DRDAs) …
Days after the young scion of the Gandhi family, Rahul Gandhi, alleged that the national rural employment guarantee scheme (NREGS) was not being implemented in drought-hit areas of Uttar Pradesh, the union rural development minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, admitted that the scheme faced corruption and had its shortcomings in implementation. …
UPA's move may come three years late What does a government which swears by the aam aadmi or the garib do when it finds itself under criticism for not doing enough to improve their lot by lifting them above the bpl (below poverty line) status? It simply hedges the issue …
The government on Tuesday took a major step to universalise implementation of the flagship programme of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in all 596 rural districts of the country. It assumes significance as the government is projecting it as an achievement in the run-up to the general election next year. …
Keeping an eye on the coming general elections, the government today extended the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) to all districts of the country and also announced the setting up of an ombudsman at central, state and district levels to monitor the process and grievances. At the launch of …
Rural Development Minister, Raghuvansh Prasad Singh today was all praises for the flood control works undertaken under National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) schemes initiative in BTAD area in Assam. Addressing a press conference to mark the extension of the NREGA schemes to cover the entire country, Union Rural Development …
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has been extended to all 604 districts of the country from Tuesday. Announcing this, Union Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh said the total budget outlay for the extended scheme for 2008-09 would be Rs. 16,000 crore. The amount available for release under …
Announcing the extension of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme to all the rural districts in the country from today, Minister for Rural Development Raghuvansh Prasad Singh said that his ministry would ensure that the programme was free of all problems by the end of the third year (2008-09 financial …
maharashtra is planning to amend the state employment guarantee act to divert the reserve fund to other projects. The move comes when the union government is trying to fortify the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (nregs). On February 21, the cabinet decided to do away with a mandatory grant to …
Union rural development minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh has put the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) under the scanner, in order to plug loopholes and to make it foolproof, as the stage is set for the universalisation of NREGS from April 1. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme was launched …
"At the current pace, on each day of the year, 290 habitations are provided with drinking water,' announced the government in the Budget session to showcase the "impressive progress' made under the UPA's flagship Rajiv Gandhi Drinking Water Mission (RGDWM) meant to provide "safe and sustainable drinking water sources' to …
When the National Advisory Council (NAC) was preparing the draft legislation on the right to employment, it had, in the words of one of its key members, Jean Dreze, to
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, (NREGA) was enacted with the objective of enhancing livelihood security in rural areas by providing at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year, to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. The Act initially came into …
The UPA government is yet to set up an expert group to undertake a survey to identify people below the poverty line (BPL), even as the 11th Plan is already underway. The survey is normally conducted by the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) in the first year of every Plan …
In the wake of a CAG report pointing to "significant deficiencies' in the implementation of UPA Government's flagship National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme, the Union Rural Development Ministry has decided to keep all the In a recent letter to all MPs, Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad has informed them about …
CAG report points to lapses in NREGP Ever since launching the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme in 2006, the upa coalition government has missed no opportunity to extol its virtues as the country's most significant welfare scheme. Now, it is facing no end of embarrassment as preliminary report of the …
