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, …
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that more new measures will be taken up for redressing farmers' problems. Addressing a function held to felicitate himj at the office of Bhartiya Kisan Sangh at Shivaji Nagar here on Sunday, Chouhan said that the Kisan Panchayat will be held every year. …
Nagercoil: The one-day orientation programme organised by International Fund for Asian Development recently evoked a very good response. Inaugurating the programme, Collector Rajendra Kumar said that the goal was to build self reliant coastal communities, resilent to shocks and able to manage their livelihoods in a sustainable manner and the …
In this article the author reviews NREGA as it is unfolding in Andhra Pradesh. In Andhra Pradesh thirty-eight lakh households have registered from employment covering thirteen districts. Of this about a third are yet to receive their job cards.
A comparative study was conducted on plant diversity in Panchayat forests and their adjoining reserve forests of three districts, viz, Pauri, Chamoli and Rudraprayag districts of Garhwal Himalaya since April 2003 to December 2004. Total 15 sites were studied.
This paper examines how political institutions and local power structures interact with and influence local public resource allocation in the Indian state of Karnataka. It use data from 80 village councils and 225 villages to examine how this local political economy influences the allocation of public resources. The empirical strategy …
Maharashtra is the first state in the country to launch state-wide reforms by empowering communities represented by Village Panchayat and VWSC to plan, design, execute and manage investment in drinking water and sanitation sector. This has entailed moving from top driven to bottom driven decision-making and involving beneficiaries at all …
District Water Sanitation Mission in collaboration with Water Aid India celebrated the World Toilet Day here yesterday. Local MLA Mr Maheswar Mohanty, collector Mr Bhaskar Jyoti Sharma, Water Sanitation Mission chairman Mr Sankarsana Parida, Puri municipality chairman Mrs Shanti Lata Pradhan, and more than 600 villagers from different gram panchayats …
KENDRAPARA: Around 29 villages inhabited by 35,000 villagers within Bhitarakanika National Park have no proper road communication system, thanks to government indifference. Due to this reason, villagers, who mostly depend on agriculture and pisciculture, find it difficult to sell their products, particularly perishable items. Jagabandhu Nayak, former block chairman of …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government today decided to spend Rs 400 crore in the Water Resources and Forest Departments through the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) for generating more employment in the rural areas. A decision to this effect was taken at a high-level meeting presided over by Chief Minister …
After receiving a positive response from Gram Panchayats under the Total Sanitation Campaign, Himachal Pradesh has initiated a special scheme for solid waste management to maintain hygienic living condition in villages. A special Incentive Fund of Rs 40 crore has been set up by the state Government for giving a …
After its pioneering efforts in universal literacy, Kerala has scored another first with Cheriyanad gram panchayat in Alappuzha district being declared the country's maiden litigation controlled and legal literate panchayat.
In Krishnaganj gram panchayat in Pohari block of Madhya Pradesh's Shivpuri district the Total Sanitation Campaign has inspired the village community to think beyond construction of toilets, and create a viable revenue model for community toilets. Situated 35 km from Shivpuri district headquarters on Sheopur road, Krishnaganj is a big …
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGP) launched in 2005 is the largest rural employment programme ever undertaken in India with an investment of Rs 30,000 crore every year, unleashing wage employment and livelihood opportunities for millions of rural poor in the country. When the news that hundreds of panchayat …
Studies done by scholars like Narayanan (2008), Vijayanand (2008) and Sharif (2008) show that in spite of many limitations the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) has become a women's programme. Narayanan and Vijayanand have restricted their study to one state each only, but Sharif has studied seven states. Their …
This manual attempts to set out the systems and standard processes that could be followed for decentralised planning. It aims to provide guidance on how the considerable capacities of line departments and experts can from now on, subserve this process of empowered planning by local governance. This manual comprises two …
Be it health, water, cleanliness or alcohol consumption, villages in rural Maharashtra are witnessing a silent movement in the last few years, thanks to the women sarpanches at the helm.
Kuthambakkam village is 40 km from Chennai. The village was once infamous for riots, poor sanitary conditions, illicit liquor brewing, unemployment, poverty and violence against women but all this changed when development was accorded priority. This change was brought about with the efforts of Elango Rangaswamy.
It was unique event. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) has always been in focus since the Act was adopted in 2006. For the first time an assembly of 1,245 sarpanches and other elected local government representatives sat for two days on Oct 14 and 15, 2008, to review …
