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 …
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday announced that all villages of the State would be made accessible with all season roads by 2013, and those villages, which would not benefit from the Pradhanmantri Gram Sadak Yojana, would be connected with the all season accessible roads from the Mukhyamantri Sadak …
Minister for Panchayats and Rural Development and Social Justice Gopal Bhargava said that Rs 625 crore has been allocated to 26 districts of the State for providing employment. He said that so far, savings accounts of over 66 lakh job card holders have been opened in banks and post offices. …
This paper estimates the impact of a change in procurement strategy of a private buyer in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Beginning in October 2000, internet kiosks and warehouses were established that provide wholesale price information and an alternative marketing channel to soy farmers in the state. Using …
DIBRUGARH, April 30: Tinsukia District Administration in collaboration with the Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) has adopted Panbari village, a hamlet near the oil vally of Digboi in Tinsukia district for its all round development. Initially, a survey was conducted to identify the shortage and lacuna so as to prepare …
KOLKATA, 30 APRIL: West Bengal has become the first state in the country to prepare a road register for improved and efficient maintenance of the state's arteries. The register will have the names of roads and highways that run through Bengal, specify their respective width and type of surface, other …
The study evaluates the performance of Rural Road component of Bharat Nirman and assesses: the coverage of eligible habitations under rural roads; to examine the implementation process including availability, adequacy and timeliness of funds earmarked for rural roads and role of PRIs; the quality of all weather roads under new …
In a general meeting held in the Nagar Panchayat office, Nagar Panchayat Babai passed the annual budget for the year 2010-11, which also includes the mention of profit worth Rs 25 thousand. Those present in the meeting included Nagar Panchayat president Vinod Acharya Mamu, vice president Kasturibai Patel, Chief Municipality …
Harsh Singh Rural transformation requires a robust service enterprise framework with public and private stakeholders at the very core. Promoting growth:Panchayati Raj Institutions must transform the vision of their mandate as being limited to resolving local disputes and implementing small works and accept a direct leadership role in agriculture, which …
The Madhya Pradesh government has proposed to set up food parks in three districts of the state. Harda district is also in the plan along with Bhopal and Ratlam district where the food parks would be set up. Talking to our correspondent, member of Narmada Valley Rural Development Foundation Trust …
Chandigarh: The Punjab Government has sought assistance worth Rs 1,000 crore from the National Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) for eight projects in the state. Disclosing this here today, Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal said a project worth Rs 124.50 crore has been recommended for setting up low-cost …
The Centre, on Tuesday, blamed the banks for non-achievement of annual targets of the poverty alleviation programme, Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana. The SGSY is a credit-cum-subsidy scheme. While subsidy is only a minor and enabling component, credit is an important component of the scheme that envisages involvement of the banking …
Gangtok: In a setback to the Pawan Kumar Chamling-led SDF government in Sikkim, the Centre has nominated six local Congress leaders to a monitoring committee to keep a tab on the implementation of the rural development projects in the state. In a letter sent to the state government recently, the …
Gives nod to nursing college in Patiala Medical College Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has given, in principle, approval to sanction Rs 220 crore for upgrade infrastructure of government hospitals on Monday. The fund will be provided by the Punjab Infrastructure Development Board and Rural Development Board. He stressed on …
MUMBAI: Maharashtra has outnumbered Britain and Mexico in receiving queries under the RTI Act, the State Information Commission has said. "In 2009, Maharashtra received 4, 40,728 queries of RTI while Britain received 90,000 and Mexico 1, 25,000 under a similar legislation," the Commission said in a recent report. The state …
KORAPUT: The villagers of Sibaguda under Konga gram panchayat in Jeypore block have threatened not to cooperate with the census enumerators till their demands are conceded. They alleged that the village had seen several elections and census enumerations in the name of development but it lacks even basic amenities till …
President Pratibha Patil on Wednesday underlined the need to forge a link between the corporate world and the agriculture sector to speed up the development process in the rural areas and remove poverty.
BHUBANESWAR: While the State Government is in the process of taking the e-governance initiative to grassroots level of the administration through computerisation of gram panchayat (GP) offices, now efforts are on to create gram panchayat database management facility centres at each block headquarters. The objective of the centre is to …
