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 …
States Float Sub-Schemes With Funds From Flagship Programme Subodh Ghildiyal | TNN New Delhi: Congress chief Sonia Gandhi has a job at hand to save her imprimatur on the rural job scheme. After the Centre prefixed
The Centre has released a sum of Rs 55.54 crore to the States of Assam, Bihar and Rajasthan under the pilot project of the Centrally-sponsored Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana (PMAGY). The implementation of the pilot scheme was approved in March this year for integrated development of 1,000 villages in …
In what could trigger resentment among the rural population, the Planning Commission is open to the suggestion of the Rural Development Ministry on tolling rural roads to ensure their upkeep. The suggestion to this effect came this morning from a senior RD ministry official, who highlighted the plight of the …
BHUBANESWAR: The National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) will be implemented in the state soon. This was decided at a highlevel meeting presided over by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik here today. The NRLM aims at addressing poverty and alleviating rural poverty by 2015. The scheme also targets to cover 50 percent …
With a view to compulsorily enlisting participation of the Panchayati Raj Institutions in implementation of the flagship schemes, the Union Rural Development Ministry has advised the State Governments to seek approval of the labour budget of NREGS for the ongoing fiscal from all the gram sabhas, panchayat samities and zila …
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) came into existence after the enactment of the Parliament Act 'National Rural Employment Guarantee Act' (2005) in September 2005. The primary objective of the scheme is to provide 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every household whose adult …
Convergence between any two schemes is a mutually beneficial proposition. That is why joint guidelines were issued by the Ministry of Environment and Forests and Ministry of Rural Development on January 9, 2009, to usher in convergence efficiently and effectively. The convergence between NAP and rural development programmes such as …
RUDRA BISWAS Ranchi, June 27: Former Union rural development secretary K.B. Saxena today called upon villagers to oppose moves by corporates and the state forest department to plant bamboo, eucalyptus and other exotic varieties of trees on village lands.
T.V. Gopalakrishnan The need to support the rural sector has been well recognised and the efforts in this direction have been enormous and institutions set up to aid this sector are aplenty. The allocation of resources exclusively to develop the agriculture and other rural segments of the economy by the …
The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved a Rural Development Ministry proposal to launch the National Rural Livelihood Mission that aims to reduce poverty in a time-bound manner through provision of diversified employment opportunities and skill development. The proposal for the big-ticket development mission was earlier approved by the Expenditure Finance …
Bhopal : The monitoring of work under water catchment area mission will be made more effective. Under the mission the work will be done by fixing personal responsibility. Inter-district monitoring system will be introduced for valuation of the works. Social Justice, Panchayat, and Rural Development Minister Gopal Bhargava said so …
AMIT AGNIHOTRI Focusing on pro viding skills to the unemployed rural youth, the government is all set to bury the unproductive Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY), replacing it with the National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM). The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) is likely to approve the revamped NRLM on …
Rural level micro plans will be chalked out for sustainable exploitation of natural resources and making rain-fed agriculture profitable. Under the micro plans, several works of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme will be taken up in an integrated way with the convergence of other government schemes and programmes. …
Rajahmundy, June 23: With special emphasis on rural development, the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, (Nabard) has taken up several activities in East Godavari. As part of infrastructure development, Rs 370 crore was sanctioned for 670 various projects in the district. Of these, works relating to roads and …
16 villages of Raisen parliamentary regin where I got maximum votes during elections would be developed as model villages. These villages will have all those facilities which are found in towns. These views were expressed by region's MP Sushma Swaraj in a programme organised at Bahmori. Though I have been …
JAIPUR: Rajasthan is getting ready for devolution of powers to the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) to be the first State in the whole of North India to go for such a makeover. As many as five departments are working at a break neck speed to carry out the process, including …
The Himalayan State of Sikkim has made excellent progress in providing electricity and drinking water to its citizens, according to the latest National Family Health Survey for Sikkim. A total of 92 per cent of the 1,11,830 households in the State have electricity and 78 per cent drinking water. The …
IN A move that is certain to help the ruling DMK in next assembly polls in Tamil Nadu, the Karunanidhi government has drawn an ambitious plan to rid the state of all huts, or temporary houses, in the rural areas by the year 2016. A government order issued by the …
