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 …
JAMMU, Jan 4 : Highlighting the role of various Rural Development Schemes in providing much needed employment to the people, the Minister for Rural Development, Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, Ali Mohammad Sagar has said that these have the potential to change the socio-economic scenario of rural and far-flung areas. …
Reform In The Countryside: The agriculture sector and rural economy should be the centrepiece of Budget 2011-12 Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee will soon begin confabulations with industry leaders and sectoral experts on the formulation of Budget 2011-12. Like Manmohan Singh and P Chidambaram in the past, will he deliver …
A grassroots revolution of politics that delivers is sweeping the Uttar Pradesh countryside. The newly-elected pradhan of Sarraiya-Mahantpur panchayat in Fazilpur, 29-year-old Rakesh Srivastava, epitomises this trend. He has taken it upon himself to empower the poverty-stricken area. The sociology major from Gorakhpur University says, "I am not here to …
Meghalaya Vision 2030 presents a development outlook for Meghalaya, focusing on the state’s strengths and potentials, the challenges it faces and emerging opportunities in the region and beyond. The state government of Meghalaya has asked the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) to prepare a vision document for …
The structural composition of State economy has undergone significant changes since the formation of Haryana State. Agriculture Sector still continues to occupy a significant position in State economy, although the share of this sector in the GSDP is continuously declining. The predominance of Agriculture Sector is also responsible for instability …
This report presents the findings and recommendations of the evaluation of the World Bank's Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Pilot Program. It shows that SEA can contribute to improving development policy and sector reform by calling attention to environmental and social priorities, strengthening constituencies, enhancing policy capacities, and improving social accountability. …
The purpose of this paper is to reopen policy debates on the role of agricultural mechanisation in rural development. The paper examines very different and diverse patterns of agricultural mechanisation in some South Asian countries over the last 30 years. In Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka the process was facilitated …
Kamadhenu Yojana has been chalked out for development of Gaushalas in all the 52 thousand villages of Madhya Pradesh under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Under the scheme additional livelihoods resources will be developed on one hand and on the other hand employment will be made available in …
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today appreciated efforts of the Baramulla administration in pooling resources to meet development targets in the district, despite disturbances and hoped that by working with efficiency, dedication and making a good use of the present weather conditions, all targets would be achieved. He also announced an …
NEW DELHI, 13 dec: The Supreme Court today favoured a Central probe into the diversion of funds and non-implementation of rural employment scheme, MGNREGA, in Orissa. “We are treating this matter seriously. We will give direction to the Centre to hold investigation into the allegation of diversion of funds. The …
Although Nitish Kumar's victory in the Bihar assembly elections reflects a positive response to the development track record and the restoration of law and order in the last five years, the uneven distribution of benefits from public investment and development initiatives at the village level flows from the existing socio-economic …
Madhya Pradesh is first in the country to prepare a master plan of each village. Working continuously on the decentralised district employment plan, the work of giving it final touches has begun from Sunday. In five districts of the State, the decentralised district plan system has already been implemented. Now, …
BHUBANESWAR: Rural Development Minister Bikram Keshari Arukh today said in the Assembly that the State Government had decided to set up 1,511 drinking water projects in the State during the next five years. To a question from Prashant Kumar Muduli (BJD), the Minister said that till now work on 268 …
Panchayat, Rural Development and Social Justice Minister Gopal Bhargava said that the Madhya Pradesh Government has accepted a big challenge of constructing cement concrete roads in 52 thousand villages. He asked the construction agencies to use such techniques with which quality roads at less cost shall be constructed. While inaugurating …
Riding on a strong performance by the agriculture and services sectors, the Indian economy posted a better than expected growth rate of 8.9 per cent for the second quarter of the financial year 2010-11 and raised expectations that it could touch 9 per cent overall GDP growth for this year. …
Unique features of MNREGA, the public wage programme turn it into a magnet for women. More women than men work under the national programme that guarantees employment to rural people. Increasing women’s participation in MGNREGA can be used for local ecological revival, according to Richard Mohapatra Unique features of the …
India Post To Lace Rural Officers With Fingerprint Scanners, Magnetic Strip Readers Souvik Sanyal NEW DELHI INDIA Post will provide gadgets such as biometric fingerprint scanners, magnetic strip readers and thermal printers to its 1,30,000 rural offices to smoothen the process of verification and payment under the national rural employment …
The Panchayat and Rural Development Department has issued directives to all district collectors and Chief Executive Officers of all district Panchayats to constitute
