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 Panchayat and Rural Development Ministry Department, West Bengal, in association with Pixel Informatics, plans to use mobile telephony to collect data of beneficiaries under the National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme. As a part of the pilot project, the Government has handed over 1,100 mobile handsets to members of Gram …
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS)will coordinate with the state for improving and increasing irrigation potential. The water resources department has marked 800 new irrigation schemes. For implementation of these schemes, the NREGS will coordinate with the state government. Principal Secretary water resources department Arvind Joshi informed this at …
The Right to Information (RTI) Act has exposed encroachment on three bighas of forest land, involving a former forest official and now pradhan of the Barswan gram panchayat in Balh block. According to information sought under the RTI Act by the villagers, the said pradhan allegedly used his clout as …
Gram Sabha members of Nuvem village almost came to blows on the controversial Regional Plan as a consensus eluded the villagers on the village plan. While some villagers blamed the village level committee for preparing a fault plan and called for its scrapping, the Committee called for intermediation from government …
Denied rights, aggrieved citizens abstain from voting having lost their means to earn a living, communities are increasingly using their vote to drive home the message they distrust the State. Tribals who lost their agricultural land in a forest area because of faulty implementation of forest rights laws in Maharashtra …
Nearly 150,000 voters from 176 villages in Jharkhand said they boycotted elections on April 23 as their demand for water, electricity and road access have not been met A few villages in Chhindwara in Madhya Pradesh also abstained from voting on April 23 for the same reason Many villages in …
DIBRUGARH, May 12: Six Panchayats under Tengakhat Development received twenty-six lakh sixty four thousand rupees under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) scheme. The money will be spent in the implementation of eight government schemes in the area. Meanwhile, work on the houses of nine hundred and seven beneficiaries …
A member of the Taluk Panchayat has been obstructing the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) and thus he needs to be disqualified, said activists of the Karnataka Prantha Raitha Sangha. President of the Taluk Unit of the Karnataka Prantha Raitha Sangha Holalur Shankar addressing the media …
Thiruvananthapuram, May 4 The grama panchayats in Kerala were able to take up paddy cultivation in 45,150 acres of fallow land in 2008-09. The panchayats were expected to go in for paddy cultivation in over 10,000 acres during the year. However, the achievement was more than four times the target, …
Blame it on the general elections when millions of people cry for a drop of water across the state. But thank the state for its decision to dig up 23,000-odd tube-wells, even if that comes at the fag end of summer with time for monsoon to set in. The drinking …
Although the Union Finance Minister in his 1999 budget speech declared the 1999-2000 as the year of the Gram Sabha, adequate efforts were not made to enforce the declaration excepting in a few states like West Bengal and Kerala. The culture of not holding GS meetings got wide currency because …
The residence of Baghuwar have reason to smile. This little village in central Madhya Pradesh is proud of its hygiene and sanitation. Every family has access to a pucca indoor, water-economical toilet. '100 per cent open-air toilet free village' proclaims a sign at the panchayat ghar. The 100 per cent …
If drinking water supply is undertaken through people's participation, pure water can be made available at 20 paise per litre. The point was made by N. Balagopal, national executive chairman of Confederation of NGOs of Rural India (CNRI) at the get-together of Thiruvananthapuram based NGOs on April 29.
Shimla: The plan to transfer various water supply schemes to panchayti raj institutions (PRIs) in a phased manner has not made much headway. Only the partial control of about 1,200 out of the total over 7,900 schemes has been handed over to panchayati raj bodies so far. In such cases, …
A delegation of write-pickets from the Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat (KKPKP) an association elf waste-pickers from Pune, and the national alliance of waste-picker's' organisations, presented the Lok Sabha candidates with a petition asking them to pass a - "Recycling Policy', which gives due place to the waste-pickers and the …
Eager To Build School, He Gave Law The Go-By Saeed Khan | TNN Ahmedabad: His environment unfriendly actions caught up with former sarpanch Mahen-dra Chaudhary 27 years too late. Dedicated to the cause of education, he constructed a primary school in the small village of Titava in Bardoli district, south …
The sanitation week concluded here on Tuesday with a special drive for cleaning all wards of the panchayat. Members of the Mahila Mandal of Anoh Gram Panchayat in this subdivision along with panchayat representatives participated in the drive. According to information, Samparpan Association, an NGO playing a key role in …
The National Rural Health Mission provides a large canvas and platform for health action, but Shyam Ashtekar (EPW, 13 September 2008) misses many issues and does not make his critique from the right perspective. During the short period of its existence there is ample evidence to show that the mission …
Rajasthan is the pioneer state in the country where the Panchayati Raj System was introduced on October 2, 1959. At present there are 3058 women Sarpanch and 27000 women Panch in Rajasthan. The study was conducted in Sikar district of Rajasthan which is comprised of eight blocks, out of which …
