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 …
On a bright January morning, Jaga Ram Garasia surveys his mustard fields in Chitrawas village with satisfaction. The crop is in full bloom, thanks to a good monsoon last year. But what he would much rather talk about is the past five years and how the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural …
This is an environmental assessment study for the proposed National Rural Livelihood Project (NRLP) to be implemented in 100 districts and 400 blocks of 12 Indian states with an aim to increase and sustain income of the poor, especially women.
THE Supreme Court has directed all state governments to demolish unauthorised constructions on gram sabha lands and evict squatters. A bench comprising Justice Markandeya Katju and Justice Gyan Sudha Mishra asked chief secretaries of States and Union Territories to comply with its order on the issue and file periodical compliance …
Rural Development Ministry In Consultation With CAG To Remove Lacuna From Scheme THE Manmohan Singh government has moved in to restore the role of civil society groups in conducting the social audit of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in an attempt to weed out corruption from various …
This Social Assessment for the National Rural Livelihoods Project (NRLP) has been prepared after careful review and analysis of the experiences of previous state- and civil society-supported livelihood projects including World Bank-assisted livelihood projects. A comprehensive desk review was carried out of seven previous District Poverty Initiatives /Rural Livelihoods Projects …
Just two and half years ago, Kandhamal was India’s shame as a communal violence triggered by the killing of a Hindu seer left 38 people dead, thousands of houses and hundreds of churches burnt and vandalised and several thousand people scurrying to relief camps for safety. As Christian were slayed …
AKHILESH TILOTIA ANALYST, KOTAK INSTITUTIONAL EQUITIES THE outlook for agriculture in India is changing: price increases are lifting realisations, which, in turn, are being reinvested in productivity enhancements. Small changes in the agricultural value chain can add up to a substantial improvement in yield and productivity. India ranks high in …
Senior Congress leader Vilasrao Deshmukh, who took charge today as the Union rural development minister, said he would look into the controversy over delinking the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), the government
Shimla: The Centre has sanctioned 44 projects worth Rs 356.47 crore under the Integrated Watershed Management Programme in all the districts of Himachal for 2010-11. The Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Minister Jai Ram Thakur today said 2,37,651 hectares area would be covered under the programme and the amount was …
The new union rural development minister Vilasrao Deshmukh takes charge of the key ministry at a time when the mega Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) 2005 completes mandated five years of implementation within next few weeks. Deshmukh would lead the rural development ministry which gets the largest …
The Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has constituted a committee of ministers for continuous monitoring and supervision of relief distribution to frost affected farmers in the state. The committee comprises Minister for Panchayats and Rural Development Gopal Bhargav, Minister for Farmers Welfare and Agriculture Development Dr. Ramkrishna Kusmaria, Minister for …
Haryana chief minister, Bhupinder Singh Hooda said that the state government has formulated new schemes for urban and rural development under Rajiv Gandhi Urban Development Mission, and Rs 2,500 crore and Rs 5,000 crore would be spent for urban and rural development, respectively. Hooda was addressing the elected representatives of …
Flagship schemes like the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and the Total Sanitation Campaign are facing implementation bottlenecks in rural development minister C.P. Joshi
- Janumdih hamlet gets first model gram sabha under Centre scheme for rebel-hit areas Jamshedpur, Jan. 4: Fifty-year-old Gomdi Hansda, a resident of Janumdih hamlet, has only heard about government schemes. But now, he can actually reap the benefits of some. Janumdih, along with 21 other villages, will be developed …
