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 …
Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has proposed social audits for the centre’s big-ticket welfare programmes running under different ministries, on the lines of the scrutiny that he recently mandated for the flagship rural jobs scheme. “The concept has the potential to revolutionise the system. If we can have social audits …
RATANPUR (Murshidabad), 17 NOV: Villagers here have embarked on a collective effort for constructing a clay road which would serve as a short-cut and curtail around 30 km road distance to reach their district headquarters of Behrampore. As the local gram panchayat preferred to sit idle, the residents of Ratanpur …
The government is reaching out to civil society to avoid being caught on the wrong foot while identifying the poor. Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has written to members of the Right to Food Campaign (RFC), addressing their concerns on the manner in which poor households are being identified in …
SHILLONG: Implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), a nationwide plan in the country to provide good all-weather road connectivity to unconnected villages, has been helping in the development of villages in Meghalaya. With the coming up of this scheme in each and every village in the State …
New Delhi The rural development ministry has asked for a special audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General of the R40,000-crore annual budget of the National Rural Employment Programme. The audit, rural development minister Jairam Ramesh said, will also include other major programmes like the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana …
GUWAHATI: In order to boost farm output in Assam, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi inaugurated the Chief Minister’s special agricultural programme — Mission Double Cropping (MDC) — at a function organized at the auditorium of Dimoria Development Block at Sonapur on Thursday. Gogoi said that the Agriculture Department would be implementing …
The first meeting of the reconstituted district-level Vigilance and Monitoring Committee on State and Centrally sponsored rural development schemes in the district was held here on Saturday. Committee chairman A. Sampath, MP, presided. MLAs Jameela Prakasham, A.T. George and V. Sasi, District Collector M. Nandakumar, Rural Development Department project director …
This paper has studied rural employment diversification in India and across major states using NSSO data at household level for the period 1983 and 2009-10. Factors affecting rural employment diversification towards non-farm sector have also been studied. Analysis has shown that the non-farm sector has consistently grown over time and …
Market-based development programmes can help people living in poverty benefit from markets and lift themselves out of poverty. However, many such approaches do not pay attention to power imbalances that perpetuate marginalisation and poverty. To reach their fullest potential, market-based programmes should actively strengthen the power of marginalised smallholders and …
This information paper reviews the strategic drivers for renewable energy and the barriers to deployment of RE technologies as well as the policy tools to overcome obstacles to deployment. Chapter 2 reviews strategic drivers for renewable energy and maps countries according to their energy dependence and economic strength. Chapter 3 …
In this study, GNESD Centres in Africa, Asia and Latin America have analyzed biomass resource potential, energy policies promoting the deployment of bioenergy and how bioenergy can be effectively employed in bringing about rural development and poverty alleviation in eighteen countries across the globe. Findings from the study showed some …
There are many challenges to global peace and prosperity, but narrowing the rural-urban gap through creative methods is the key to achieve these goals Today, the challenges of the world are poverty, illiteracy, drinking water, clean and green energy, equitable distribution of resources, quality education with values for all, overcoming …
Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh here on Thursday said that his department has asked the CAG to do performance audit of all the rural development schemes in 11 states including Assam. Informing that the Centre was spending over `1,00,000 crore annually on rural development, Mr Ramesh said, “My ministry has …
Flagship Schemes Will Be Given Funds Linked To Usage Due To Cash Crunch New Delhi: Facing a tight financial situation, the government is thinking of trimming the payout to its mega flagship schemes such as Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) and the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA). While …
Ranchi, Oct. 27: The Planning Commission has set a December deadline for the Jharkhand government to complete a majority of the projects launched under the Centre’s Integrated Action Plan (IAP) in the 14 Naxalite-hit districts of the state. Planning Commission senior consultant Ranjan Chatterjee, who arrived in Ranchi this morning, …
The rural development ministry is going to tap the potential in the Indian private sector and other quarters of organisations not in the ambit of the government to help implement and monitor rural programmes in naxal-affected districts. For this, minister for rural development Jairam Ramesh has proposed a Prime Minister’s …
Five Party-Ruled States Underpaying Workers, Face Anti-Poor Tag New Delhi: The political advantage enjoyed by the Congress for bringing the rural job scheme is under threat with five of its states underpaying workers, a revelation that has prompted the leadership against challenging a court order seeking parity between MGNREGA wages …
After West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s tough stand on Maoists, who she called “supari killers” and “jungle mafia” at a public rally on Saturday, Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has decided to launch efforts to bridge the development deficit in Junglemahal, on the lines of his ministry’s initiative …
The State Government will kick-start the new Socio Economic Task Census (BPL census) from December 1. This was announced by State Panchayati Raj and Rural Development Minister Rockybul Hussain while talking to mediapersons today. Hussain said that the new recommendations laid down by the Central Government will automatically exclude families …
Ranchi, Oct. 16: Rural development department officials are likely to pitch for the construction of around 1,845 new roads in the hinterlands of Jharkhand during their meeting with Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh, scheduled for October 17. The proposal, which will be formally made by deputy chief minister Sudesh …
