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 centre and states usually have a very stormy relationship. I would want to draw attention to the different aspects of this relationship. We live in a federal structure of government with three levels; centre, state and the panchayati raj institutions.
Big names like Reliance Energy, Tata Power, Jindal Steel, Tata Reality and Infrastructure, IL&FS;, IDFC have shown interest. PURA, the pet theme of former President Abdul Kalam -- Provision of Urban Amenities in Rural Areas
Mumbai: Though the struggle of the tribal community to find its place in modern democracy is increasingly acquiring a Maoist flavour, their cause has been espoused by secular forces, too. One among them is renowned Gandhian Rajgopal PV, who was in the city to mobilise support for a march to …
BHUBANESWAR: Orissa universities have been asked to fan out to remote pockets and adopt more number of tribal villages where campaigns against high dropout could be launched under the Project Gyanlok. At the Vice-Chancellors (VC) Conference here, Governor Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare called for intensified activities by the universities to take …
To ensure the long overdue development of the extremist-infested districts across eight states, the Planning Commission will shortly unfurl an Integrated Action Plan (IAP) to expedite development in these parts.
PARUL CHANDRA NEW DELHI ambitious Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojna aimed at villages with an SC majority, is finally all set to take off as a pilot project in at least three states in the country. Nearly Rs 400 crore have been set aside for this flagship scheme of the …
Mumbai: The state government has launched an innovative green scheme to encourage villagers to pay tax. According to Jayant Patil, minister for rural welfare,
The rural community-led Village Relief Funds will be established in remote 3000 tribal villages to help the poor tribal families combat emergency situations. Presently, over 650 Village Relief Funds are successfully serving the poor. The initiative has been supported by the Madhya Pradesh Rural Livelihoods Project (MPRLP) in nearly 3000 …
S.S. NEGI NEW DELH The Supreme Court on Thursday put its seal on the legality of the MPs local area development scheme under which they get Rs 2 crores for development project of their choice in their constituencies even though no provision for the money is made in the appropriation …
J. Venkatesan New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday held that the Members of Parliament Local Area Development (MPLAD) Scheme, under which every MP is allotted Rs. 2 crore a year for constituency development, was intra vires the Constitution.
A five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court today unanimously upheld the MP Local Area Development (MPLAD) scheme, stating that Parliament had the power to disburse funds under it. Under the scheme, each member of Parliament is provided Rs 2 crore annually for development of his constituency. This was challenged …
AMIT AGNIHOTRI NEW DELHI Now the Samajwa di Party has joined the race to show concern for the backward Bundelkhand region in Uttar Pradesh. Sources said this was an attempt by the SP to pick up an issue with both the Congress and the BSP, who are already locked in …
Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL), which is planning to set up a 2,640MW power plant in Sikaripara and Raneshwar blocks of Dumka district, has expedited its corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities to win over villagers. A slew of welfare programmes have been started by the JSPL authorities to woo …
BHUBANESWAR: As traditional water sources are drying up and groundwater table is shrinking due to excessive exploitation, the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) has requested all the states to prepare village water security plan. The objective is to decentralise the water resources management with emphasis on community management of the …
KOLKATA, 5 May: The Union ministry of rural development will launch a scheme where basic urban amenities will be provided in rural areas through the public private partnership model. The scheme will be called Provision of Urban Amenities in Rural Areas (PURA). The project will be taken up in all …
With more than 1.51 lakh habitations being affected by contaminated water and over 38 per cent of the rural population defecating in the open, the Centre will review the implementation of related development schemes with Rural Development Secretaries of the States and Union Territories during a two-day conference beginning in …
Bhopal: A Walkthrough Survey will be conducted for connecting all the villages with all-weather roads by the year 2013 under Mukhya Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana. Giving this information, Minister of Panchayats & Rural Development and Social Justice Gopal Bhargava said that orders to this effect have been given to all …
