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 …
Nabard has sanctioned a Rs 342.43-crore loan to the state government in the current financial year for the construction of rural roads, bridges, drinking water schemes, flood protection and irrigation projects. Nabard chief general manager AK Mathur said Rs 410.64 crores was released during 2008-09 to the government for the …
Jamshedpur, March 25: The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) has come up with a state focus paper (2009-10) identifying a credit potential of Rs 7,708 crore in key farm sectors of Jharkhand. With the idea to speed up financial inclusion among the rural population, Nabard conducted a …
KOHIMA, March 23: The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has in place credit planning exercises for Nagaland for the year 2009 -2010 with Rs. 210.31 Crore as the projected credit placement. At the state credit seminar for 2009-2010 on March 20 at Hotel Saramati, the DGM of …
BHUBANESWAR: National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has stepped up efforts to promote the Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure, Grading and Standardisation scheme of Centre in Orissa. The scheme facilitates financing of infrastructure such as collection and assembling, drying, cleaning, grading, standardisation, quality certification, labelling, packaging, retailing and wholesaling, value …
Himachal Assembly on Thursday passed the Annual Budget for 2009-10 and also the related Appropriation Bill, authorising the State to spend Rs 14,016.75 crore from the consolidated fund. The house discussed and passed the demands in respect of Home, PWD, Education and Health while remaining demands were passed without discussion …
TIRUNELVELI: The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) conducted an awareness programme on environment for bankers, NGOs and farmers recently at Tenkasi to sensitise the stakeholders on environmental degradation and the strategies to mitigate the danger. In his inaugural address, Revenue Divisional Officer of Tenkasi, N. Shanmuganathan, stressed …
SIVAGANGA: Dairy farming was the best way to boost rural economy and eradicate poverty, said Umesh Chandra Sarangi, Chairman, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development. Inaugurating a scheme to buy 1000 milch animals under the NABARD
MADURAI: In the next financial year, 3.6 crore farmers in addition to the existing ones in the country will become eligible for farm loans, thanks to the Agriculture Debt Waiver and Debt Relief Scheme. The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) will focus on enhancing agricultural credit in …
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has sanctioned loans amounting to Rs 7227.76 lakh to the state government in the current fiscal. The loans have been granted from the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) of the bank and include Rs 1049.14 lakh for irrigation projects in Banda, …
Thiruvananthapuram, Feb. 3 The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) has sanctioned Rs 50.82 crore to Kerala for taking up rural infrastructure projects. The allocation is from Nabard
Ahmedabad, Feb. 2 The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) has projected a credit potential of Rs 25,927crore in Gujarat for the fiscal 2009-10, according to the Nabard State Focus Paper released on Tuesday by the State Finance Minister, Mr Vajubhai Vala, at a high-level meeting of banking …
ARUN KUMAR THAKUR K.C. Shashidhar Ranchi, Jan. 29: Jharkhand has a huge potential for absorbing credit in agriculture and allied sectors, an assessment done by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) has revealed. The assessment was carried out to prepare a base for the state
BHUBANESWAR: The empowered committee of the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) sanctioned Rs 1,859 crore under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) for construction of 1,123 roads to connect 1,790 habitations. The Ministry also sanctioned Rs 107 crore for construction of 43 bridges, including NABARD assistance of Rs 31.79 …
Portable drinking water will be provided from tanks to two regions in the Srinivaspur Assembly constituency under the Rajiv Gandhi Drinking Water scheme, at an estimated cost of Rs 60 crore, said legislator G K Venkatashivareddy. He was speaking at the Republic Day celebrations, on Monday, at the Government Women
Tribune News Service Shimla, January 15 The government will propose an annual plan of Rs 2,700 crore (an increase of 12.5 per cent over the current financial year) for the year 2009-10 to the Planning Commission of India for approval. This was stated by Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal while …
