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 …
BJP, JD(U) now ask for leasing instead of takeover; Jairam, Sharad Yadav to discuss on Friday. The revised land acquisition Bill, which Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh wants to table in Parliament in the ongoing session, seems to face too many hurdles in the shape of objections from various opposition …
GUWAHATI, April 11: The main objectives of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) are rural development and employment. But so far as Assam is concerned, these objectives have hardly been achieved. Out of the households given job cards under MGNREGA in Assam, only few got 100 days work …
Agartala: Left-ruled Tripura provided 86.27 days of work under the central government’s flagship rural jobs scheme in fiscal 2012-13, the highest in the country, a minister said here Tuesday. Quoting the performance report of the union rural development ministry, state Rural Development Minister Jitendra Chaudhury told reporters that Tripura has …
Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has urged the state governments to improve and expedite existing land reform measures to address the needs of the poor and landless, a tacit recognition that the proposed central legislation providing landless families a small parcel of land for shelter and subsistence is unlikely to …
The state has taken the lead by setting up a toll-free rural helpline for redressing complaints. The helpline has been set up at the civil secretariat to address grievances and complaints of people against various schemes of the Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Department. “The grievance redress cell was set …
Union minister says it only leads to increased Maoist activity in the areas Arguing that mining in tribal areas would lead to increased Maoist activity, Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has called for a 20-year moratorium on mining projects that affect the livelihood sources of the tribal communities in …
Any economist will tell us what India can become," said Finance Minister P. Chidambaram as he wrapped up his 90-minute Budget speech. It doesn't need the wisdom of economists to foresee the country's economic potential. India has seen the reality of 9 per cent-plus growth between 2003 and 2007. India …
In a bid to bring in more accountability and improve fund utilisation, the Ministry of Rural Development is in the process of revising the guidelines of its marquee rural housing scheme, the Indira Awas Yojna. The plan aims to provide houses to the rural poor by helping construction and upgradation …
Work on underpasses to create long-term assets The UPA government's flagship social sector programme — the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) — will now be able to create permanent infrastructure assets, giving the seven-year-old scheme providing livelihood to almost 5 crore families annually an altogether new direction. The rural …
Tribal development must for curbing Naxal growth, says Jairam Ramesh For the residents of this tiny non-descript village in Odisha’s Kalahandi-Bolangir-Koraput region, it was a rare celebratory occasion on Sunday when they got back the rights that had been snatched away by the British rulers nearly a century ago. The …
In a major step to empower forest dwellers, Jamguda in the tribal dominated Kalahandi district on Sunday became the first village in Orissa and second in the country to exercise its community right to harvest bamboo under the Forest Rights Act. The official transit passes (TP) were handed over to …
Keen to move ahead with the Land Acquisition Bill in the current Parliament session, parliamentary affairs minister Kamal Nath has called a meeting of political parties on Thursday to address the concerns raised over the proposed legislation. The major political parties, including the BJP, the Left, Trinamool Congress, Samajwadi Party, …
Kalahandi: The Centre would 'fight' Naxalites through welfare and empowerment schemes and protect the tribals from being used as shields by the ultras, Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh said on Sunday. "In the name of protecting forest dwellers, Maoists have created an atmosphere of fear (in society). Our fight …
Jamguda (Kalahandi): Transit permit to villagers to procure and sell forest resources will create a revolution in the country as it is an important tool to empower tribal communities, stressed Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh on Sunday while attending the gram sabha at Jamguda, where forest officials in his …
The government in its Budget has largely maintained its social sector spending at the same level. The allocation to the Ministry of Rural Development that runs flagship schemes like MGNREGS has gone up marginally by 5 per cent from Rs 76,376 crore to Rs 80,194 crore for 2013-14. While the …
Budget 2013-2014: speech of P. Chidambaram, Minister of Finance. Read Finance Minister P Chidambaram's budget speech February 28, 2013 Madam Speaker, I rise to present the Budget for the year 2013-14. 2. I recall my last tenure as Finance Minister and acknowledge with gratitude the splendid support that I received …
Madam Speaker, I rise to present before this august House the Revised Estimates for 2012-13 and a statement of estimated receipts and expenditure for 2013-14. I do so with mixed feelings crossing my mind. While I have a feeling of a colossus today, it is only ephemeral and is instantaneously …
The second edition of the Indian Sustainability Conclave, to be held in the capital today and tomorrow, promises to make the dialogue more vibrant and the outcomes meaningful Globally, an increasing number of companies are making strategic investments into sustainability and are also reaping significant value from such investments. However, …
Twelve years after launching its flagship rural roads scheme, the Ministry of Rural Development is set to introduce the second version of the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, which will focus on refurbishing the existing rural roads, by moving a proposal in the Cabinet on Thursday. PMGSY, a Centrally sponsored …
Itanagar: The Sulung (Puroik) community residing in East Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh at last got a reason to smile with Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh announcing to provide them roofs and hearths for survival. “The 400 odd Sulung families, which earlier worked as bonded labourers for the Nyishis …
