Report filed by the Additional Secretary, Local Self Government Department, Kerala in the matter of Tribunal on its own motion Suo Motu based on the report dated 26.06.2023 received from Hon’ble Justice A.V. Ramakrishna Pillai on the Present Status of Waste dump site at Cubaloor in Mangalpady Panchayat, Kasargod District, …
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) 2005 has been a landmark legislation in the Indian history of social security legislation post independence. This Act has been devised as a public works programme with a rights-based approach of providing 100 days of guaranteed wage employment as income security to rural …
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has been devised as a public works programme to address the issue of a rights-based approach to development; provide income security to the rural households through guaranteed wage employment; reduce/check distress migration from rural to urban areas; and create durable community assets (in …
A State level Panchayat Sammelan was held today at Sichey, which organised by the Rural Management and Development Department (RMDD). Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Chamling was the chief guest on the occasion, CB Karki, Minister of Rural Management and Development, TT Bhutia Minister of PHE, DB Thapa Minister of Urban …
Punjab, HP miss bus in phase 1; Haryana gets lone project Punjab and Himachal Pradesh have failed to make it to the first list of 19 states chosen by the government to start adult literacy classes under the all-new Sakshar Bharat Mission, which the Prime Minister launched in September last. …
Losses by the long ruling Left Front in a series of local and national elections since 2008 cannot be explained without an understanding of the nature of
The state government has sanctioned Rs 63 crore to Panchayat and Rural Development Department to undertake employment-oriented works in 38 districts, which have been affected by drought in the wake of scanty rainfall during 2009-10. Out of these funds, Rs 40 crore has been allocated by the office of Relief …
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is supporting the State government and city-based Disaster Management Institute (DMI) in implementing a unique community-based Disaster Risk Reduction Project in ten districts of the state. The Project, which got underway in November 2008 and presently covers 100 villages across Guna, Mandsaur, Damoh, Dhar, …
Saeed Khan | TNN Ahmedabad: Gujarat High Court on Monday raised a critical issue on developing of special economic zones (SEZ). A division bench headed by chief justice SJ Mukhopadhaya was hearing a PIL filed by members of Zarpara gram panchayat opposing allotment of nearly 1,000 hectare land to the …
An action plan has been chalked out to construct ten check dams at a cost of Rs 10 lakh in all the Gram Panchayat of the taluk under Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, revealed legislator N H Shivashankara Reddy. CHECKING DEPLETION: Legislator N H Shivashankara Reddy launching the work …
Kanas: Before the onset of the New Year, 22 panchayats of the Kanas block have been facing acute shortage of drinking water. No measures are being taken up by the Rural Development department or by the panchayats. Scarcity of drinking water is a regular phenomenon in the block, claiming human …
Dharamsala: Another case of alleged corruption in the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) has come to the fore. In Masroor village panchayat, the names of schoolchildren have appeared on the muster rolls of development works carried out under NREGA. Interestingly the school children have appeared in the board examinations …
Collector Chandrakant Dalvi, who had decided to crack the whip on gram panchayats and members, who have not constructed toilet blocks, have asked the block development officer to issue show-cause notices to erring sarpanch's in the villages. Close to 600 villages will come under scrutiny and 40 sarpanchs of gram …
Only 14 per cent job card holding households have got employment under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in the financial year 2009-10 till date in Assam, out of which 69 per cent families got less than 20 days employment till the end of December 2009. What was being considered …
Health minister releases roadmap for 2010; de-addiction centres, upgrade of hospitals planned Health and Family Welfare Minister Laxmi Kanta Chawla on Friday released the health department
On 19 December, the Gujarat Local Authorities Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2009 was passed in the State Assembly. It is now mandatory for all registered voters in Gujarat to vote in the elections of all local bodies (municipal corporations, municipalities and panchayats) of the state. The new amendment empowers the election …
Panchayats at different levels play an important role in the implementation of rural development schemes. Under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, Panchayats are the principal implementing agencies. However, most of the panchayats do not have proper place to efficiently discharge their duties and responsibilities. Inclusion of construction of …
