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 National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is an important milestone and mechanism, the manifestations of which help us in reviewing crucial issues regarding the impact of development interventions in Indian rural ecosystems. This commentary by Shailly Kedia, Anandajit Goswami and Shilpi Kapur, from the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), …
This paper explores the role of ICTs in empowering Indian rural women, through a review of ICT initiatives in India. The paper concludes that, while most of the ICT initiatives are disseminating new information and knowledge useful for rural women, many are not able to make use of it, due …
The flagship programmes of the UPA government in the social sector have had little impact. Spending has been between 25 and 75 per cent in many schemes like the Indira Awas Yojana, the rural housing scheme, the rural electrification scheme and the rural health programme. Irrigation statistics have come under …
During the 1970s, major policy debates on the role of mechanisation in agricultural and rural development in south Asia took place; by the early 1990s, such debates had largely faded. Yet today, countries such as Bangladesh possess some of the most productive, mechanised and labour-intensive agricultural industries in south Asia. …
The Rajiv Gandhi Gramin Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) is one flagship programme of the UPA government where the entire budgeted allocation of Rs 33,000 crore has been committed, but the desired result is still elusive. RGGVY, a component of Bharat Nirman, was launched in April 2005 with a mandate to electrify …
Unlike the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP), the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), under the UPA government appears to be on track, with better utilisation of funds by majority of the states. The programme was launched on December 25, 2000, as a fully funded, centrally sponsored scheme to …
The Rural Development Ministry has allowed the Central Employment Guarantee Council (CEGC), the apex monitoring agency of the NREGS, to lapse on the completion of its tenure in September last year.
Bhubaneswar: Cost of living in rural Odisha was one of the lowest in the country even as the state government claimed reduction in poverty by 11.73 between 2004-05 and 2007-08. This was part of the Economic Survey 2010-11 report presented at the State Assembly here on Monday. The cost of …
Last month, at the IIT-Bombay techfest, Utkarsh, the winners were local, rural and low-cost technologies: Parvin Kumar and Abhishek Ranjan won Rs 50,000 for designing a Rs 32,000 bio-fuel machine that can produce enough gas to cook three meals a day for a family of six. The judges at the …
LUCKNOW: The state budget 2011-12 needs be analysed in the backdrop of 12th Finance Commission's targets on six indicators, which all states are required to achieve. These indicators include Fiscal Deficit to be brought down to 3% of GSDP; Revenue deficit to be eliminated; Own tax revenues higher than 6% …
Giving monuments and memorials a miss this year, the state government presented a tax-free, but deficit budget on Tuesday promising development of all sections of the society. Finance Minister Lalji Verma, who presented state budget in Vidhan Sabha, called it a financial document aimed at
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has found that the Food and Civil Supplies Department of the State neither conducted any survey for identification of beneficiaries nor followed the survey conducted by the Panchayat and Rural Development Department in 1998-99, to select the beneficiaries of the Below Poverty …
Kokrajhar: Diplai Beel, a natural waterbody, which lies within the vicinity of Chakrachila wildlife sanctuary in Kokrajhar, is all set to get a facelift to make it more tourist-friendly. The Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) administration has taken steps to preserve Diplai Beel, without harming the ecology and environment, by renovating …
Gangtok, Feb 4: Sikkim has become the only state to bag national award in all three categories for exemplary work done under MG-NREGA during the recent Mahatma Gandhi NREGA Sammelan in New Delhi. The sammelan was held to commemorate the completion of the fifth year of the commencement of this …
LUCKNOW: Union ministry of rural development has released grant-in-aid worth Rs 48.27 crore as part payment of the second instalment of central share of funds for the implementation of centrally sponsored Swarnjayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana. The scheme is spread across 26 districts of the state. The amount of grant will …
The papers in the special issue on Rammanohar Lohia (EPW, 2 October 2010) did not dwell on the socialist leader’s thinking on local governance and local development, ideas which continue to be relevant today for rural development.
It has served as a tool to ease tension in Kandhamal and ethnic conflict among Manipur's tribal groups Officials rewarded for ingenuity at function celebrating completion of five years of MGNREGS Eight District Magistrates from across India rewarded for efforts in their respective districts NEW DELHI: Pepping up the rural …
