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 …
GUWAHATI, Feb 12 – The Union Ministry for Rural Development will put more emphasis on Pure Drinking Water and Total Sanitation Programme so that the vision and objective of Nirmal Gram can truly be achieved in Assam. This was stated by Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh in his …
Chief Secretary Avani Vaish has instructed at a meeting at Jabalpur to give special priority to the construction of rural roads and buildings of schools and Anganwadis in the districts covered by Integrated Action Plan (I.A.P). The Chief Secretary was reviewing development works of Balaghat, Mandla, Seoni, Dindori, Umaria, Anuppur, …
Guwahati, Feb. 12: Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh today took strong exception to corruption in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Guarantee Act scheme and urged governments not to make the flagship programme a hotbed of corruption. “NREGA is not a scheme to buy Boleros and Pajeros, it is to …
Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has favoured flexibility in rules in the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) for Arunachal Pradesh for better conectivity. The issue came up during a review meeting of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana for the Northeast today when it was pointed out by Arunachal …
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi on Wednesday announced budget estimates for the year 2012-13, significantly increasing the councillors' funds in all the wards and focusing on improvement and development of roads and existing infrastructure. With the MCD headed for a split this coming April, Leader of the House Subhash Arya …
Madhya Pradesh stands fourth in the country in the implementation of MNREGA. So far, Rs. 17,730 cr have been spent on basic development works and village uplift in the state under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. More than 9.78 lakh works have been undertaken and employment worth 132 …
Ramesh for granting states discretion over 50% of funds for central schemes. The upcoming budget is likely to give state governments discretionary powers over about 50% of funds under central government schemes, a move that will allow better utilisation of resources. “The current way of functioning is not ideal...State governments …
ROURKELA: Armed with the Saranda Action Plan, Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Monday detailed his much-hyped ‘peace offensive’ to curb insurgency along the Odisha-Jharkhand border. On his second visit to the Maoist-infested Saranda forest region in the neighbouring Jharkhand, Ramesh laid the foundation stone for the Integrated Development …
The Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Assam has been publishing this annual report “Economic Survey, Assam” regularly with a view to focus the trends of performance based development of the State economy. In the current issues the report endeavor has been made to depict and analyze the latest economic situation …
The report was prepared by Dr. Mihir Shah, Member, Planning Commission to examine ways in which the Operational Guidelines of MGNREGA could be revised.
Bhubaneswar: A World Bank team on Monday praised the Odisha government for the overall progress in three of its projects being implemented with an estimated $404.8 million. However, it advised the government to speed up utilisation of funds. Briefing newsmen after a joint review of externally-aided projects presided over by …
BANKURA/PURULIA, 24 JAN: Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh today granted Rs 2,000 crore for providing safe drinking water to the people of Bankura district. “The Centre has approved Rs 1,000 crore for the first phase implementation of the project,” the minister said here today. Mr Ramesh held a meeting …
Shimla: The World Bank has sanctioned Rs 74.24 crore for the remaining 37 roads and bridges in different parts of the state. Stating this here yesterday, Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal said he had received a communication from Union Minister of Rural Development Jairam Ramesh in this regard. He said …
Lump sum funds will now be made available to Gram Panchayats for development and construction works under Panch Parmeshwar Yojna. This will accelerate the pace of rural development will lead to co ncretization of the concept of Golden Madhya Pradesh. These views were expressed by Minister of State for Food, …
Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has said that the Union Government will not exercise any discrimination with States in rural development programmes. He said the Union Government will give clearance to all the important proposals to be sent to it regarding rural development and will not allow any fund …
* A group of contract labourers work to complete the paving of a 2-km kuchcha road running through open fields. Less than 300 metres are left — they have been instructed to use the tractorloads of bricks as fast as they can. * A Dalit colony, inhabited by the Baazigar …
JAMMU: National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has formulated potential-linked credit plans ( PLCPs) worth Rs 4,180 crore to give a boost to the agriculture sector in Jammu and Kashmir in 2012-13. "The credit potential under the priority sector, estimated at Rs 4,180 crore, is the aggregation of …
BHUBANESWAR: The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) on Thursday announced a credit plan of Rs 30,000 crore for the State for 2012-13. Last year the Bank had made a credit plan of Rs 25,000 crore. NABARD’s Chief General Manager (CGM), Odisha Circle, K K Gupta, said that …
KOLKATA, 10 JAN: The new minister for panchayat and rural development department, Mr Subrata Mukherjee, today warned gram panchayats that funds in future would be withheld in case of poor performance. Ahead of the panchayat polls the performance list of the gram panchayats are sure to come in handy since …
Bhopal : Houses are being made available to the poor and needy in the rural areas of Madhya Pradesh under Chief Minister’s Rural Housing Mission. Beneficiaries of the scheme are provided loans for construction of houses through banks. Madhya Pradesh Rural Roads Development Authority Chief Executive Officer Shri Ajay Tirkey …
