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 …
The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2013 presents updated estimates of undernourishment and progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) and World Food Summit (WFS) hunger targets. The latest assessment shows that further progress has been made towards the 2015 MDG target, which remains within reach for the …
This paper builds upon the assessment of the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) agriculture sector performance in the 2012 Annual Evaluation Review. First, it reviews the recent developments in world food markets, and the responses of Asian governments and the international community to high food prices, and analyzes the impacts and …
Only 18% Have All 3 Facilities; Fall In Agriculture’s GDP Share: Report One in five rural households has none of three basic facilities — drinking water, electricity and sanitation — while only about 18% have access to all three. The India Rural Development Report 2012-13 released by Jairam Ramesh on …
Sanitation continues to remain India's biggest failure with a large proportion of the nation's rural population still defecating in the open says this India Rural Development Report 2012-13 The dynamics of political, economic and social change in rural India are complex and have been gaining prominence. In this context, the …
Corporate social responsibility or simply CSR, as the “beyond business” initiatives of companies have come to be globally known, is a complex, evolving subject. Any serious attempt to understand it in a large, diverse, developing country like India calls for considerable research and contextual analyses. Though in vogue for centuries, …
In the first phase, it has sanctioned a loan of Rs 113.70 crore to the state government for construction of 354 roads stretching 510 Kms and 22 bridges of 424 meters The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has allocated Rs 900 crore for various rural and agricultural …
The Standing Committee on Rural Development (2012-2013) present the Forty-Second Report on Implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 of the Ministry of Rural Development (Department of Rural Development).
The loan will be used for 21 road and 14 drinking water projects in Haryana National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development has sanctioned a loan of Rs 238.65 crore for 21 road and 14 drinking water projects in Haryana. Stating this, NABARD (Haryana), Chief General Manager, D V Deshpande, …
This Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) relates to matters arising from the performance audits of selected programme s and activities and compliance audits of Government departments and autonomous bodies. Compliance audit refers to the examination of transactions re lating to expenditure of the audited entities, …
The Stand Alone Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (C&AG;) for the period 2007-12 containing the results of Performance Audit of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) has been prepared for submission to the Governor of Bihar under Article 15(12) of the Constitution. The Government …
This Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India has been prepared for submission to the Governor under Article 151 of the Constitution. The report contains the results of performance audit of implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). The performance audit covered the period …
In an effort to uplift rural infrastructure, the government has taken three mega projects involving Tk 1,530 crore, official sources said. Under these projects, the government will develop rural market places, roads, improve irrigation facilities and remove water logging in the underdeveloped areas of north and south-western districts of the …
Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister H K Patil on Friday said six lakh community toilets would be constructed in rural areas during the current financial year. Patil told mediapersons here that officials have been instructed to take steps to have two toilets with commode in each village, for the …
Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh on Saturday announced a special package of Rs 4,130 crore for rural development in Bihar. "The central government will provide this amount for rural development in Bihar," Jairam Ramesh told reporters here. The minister is on a two-day visit to the state to take stock …
The broad objective of the Regional Plan-2021 "for promoting growth and balanced development of the Region” is to be achieved by: Providing suitable economic base for future growth by identification and development of regional settlements capable of absorbing the economic development impulse of NCT-Delhi; Providing efficient and economic rail and …
To get additional Rs 10,000 cr through Central assistance: Ahluwalia The Planning Commission on Wednesday approved a whopping Rs 47,000-crore plan size for Karnataka for the year 2013-14, up by 11.8 per cent from the previous fiscal. Planning Commission Deputy chairperson Montek Singh Ahluwalia, who held a meeting with Chief …
Jaipur: The Pachpadra village in Barmer where the new refinery will come up, will have a separate master plan for regulated development of the region. The urban development & housing department on Wednesday took a decision to keep Pachpadra expansion aside from the master plans of Barmer and Jodhpur and …
The State government is working on an organic policy in order to make organic food accessible in rural areas, according to sources. They told City Express that eight states including Karnataka, Kerala and Uttarakhand already have such a policy and Tamil Nadu is likely to come up with a similar …
Agroforestry is a dynamic, ecologically based, natural resources management system that, through the integration of trees on farms and in the agricultural landscape, diversifi es and sustains production for increased social, economic and environmental bene fits for land users at all levels (ICRAF). Yet it is still considered a peripheral …
