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 UPA government's policies on infrastructure have not translated into any substantial benefits for the poor. Adequate infrastructure is among the most critical physical requirements for attaining fast economic growth and for encouraging investment in the backward regions of the country. The Planning Commission has suggested that the total investment …
Jaiprakash Agrawal, Chairman of Surya Foundation & Surya Group has started a village development project in the state. He project has already commenced and is covering many districts of MP. Inspired by Anna Hazare of Maharastra, Surya Foundation is working in about 150 villages in MP. Also, it will conduct …
Talking about safe cities, all urban agglomerations around the world today are on terror target. No one in that sense is really safe or secure. It is increased vigilance that will make our cities secure. For example, in the city of London, the one square mile area is protected by …
CHILDREN of a remote northeast village Dibrual Dehingio Gaon are now studying in nearby English medium schools, 40 people of Padamunda village in Orissa are employed in transportation business in nearby town and habitants of flood-prone regions of Bihar are no longer starving during rainy seasons; thanks to construction of …
GUWAHATI, June 9: AGP president Chandra Mohan Patowary today demanded of Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi to publish a white paper on the State-sponsored schemes taken up by his government in the State since 2001, barring the Centrally-sponsored schemes like the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme …
Having received support from various states, the proposed Bachelor of Rural Health Care is all set to roll out soon. Speaking exclusively to The Indian Express, Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Azad said he will soon have a meeting with the officials concerned and launch the course.
Jamshedpur, June 3: West Singhbhum is lagging behind in implementation of MGNREGA projects and there are large-scale irregularities in implementation of the scheme, observed a high-level state team today. The team, which is inspecting development projects being carried out in the district, was headed by chief secretary A.K. Singh. The …
Over 35,000 habitations have been connected with all weather roads and over 1,90,000 km existing rural roads have been upgraded/renewed since Bharat Nirman was launched The UPA-2 repor June 1: The UPA-2 report card released on Tuesday said that as part of the social welfare measures of the government, the …
SHG and their federations have become a movement in India. To sustain the benefits emerging from this movement, it is important that they become independent in all aspects and take full ownership. This means that the facilitating agencies should minimise their role, withdrawing gradually. Self regulation of SHGs and their …
PERAMBALUR:The State government is giving priority to effective implementation of rural development schemes in Perambalur district and a sum of Rs.70 crore has been spent during 2009-10 for about 78,300 works through the District Rural Development Agency, said D. Napoleon, Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment. Presiding …
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh has done laudable work for rural infrastructure development in the state and has fully utilised funds allocated to it. This has been said by chairman of National Agriculture and Rural Development Bank Shri Umesh Chandra Sarangi in a letter to the state government. He also said that …
The state cabinet in its meeting today endorsed the action plan for linking all the villages with roads in Madhya Pradesh by the year 2013 under Mukhya Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, MNREGA and BRGF. The cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan decided that funds should be …
Development is yet to reach the Adivasis living in the Scheduled Tribe colony here, along the Kodagu-Kerala border, as they do not have access to basic amenities such as drinking water, proper shelter and food.
Seven years after it was announced from the Red Fort and after seven unsuccessful pilot projects in the Tenth Plan, the government is now looking towards the corporate sector for implementation of former president A P J Abdul Kalam
All districts of the state will soon have a local resident as ombudsman (Lokpal) for disposal of complaints related to implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). State level cell of MGNREGS working under rural development department has invited applications in this regard from non political persons …
In Nepal, lost in the chaos of political upheavals, a silent revolution is afoot. In remote villages of this mountainous and energy-starved country people are demanding their right to electricity. They say electricity is a national good; everyone must have a right to it. This is not to say Nepal …
Across Nepal, close to 420 electricity user groups, cooperatives and committees are working to extend the grid into villages. They are taking charge of electricity distribution, maintenance and ‘customer service’. Together they have electrified 176,000 rural households according to nea; another 90,000 are in the pipeline. These numbers are significant …
Away from the grid, villages have been generating their own electricity for decades in Nepal. The country is the developing world’s petri dish for experiments on small-scale renewables. Generous international donors have supported biomass (biogas, improved cooking stoves and biofuels); mini- and micro-hydro power; improved water mills; solar (photovoltaic and …
