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 …
BHUBANESWAR: Food security in Orissa continues to be a cause for concern despite the much vaunted Rs 2-a-kg-rice scheme of the State Government. The reason is allotment of 25 kg against the stipulated 35 kg a month. In 2002, the then Union Government had raised the scale of issue under …
Farmers of the state as well as self-help groups (SHGs) have many a reason to thank National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard). One of them financial uplift. At a news meet in the state capital today, chief general manager of Nabard, Jharkhand unit, M.V. Ashok announced that the …
We cannot say that development-related issues are long term while the immediate task is to annihilate the Naxalites The massacre of 76 policemen in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh by the Naxalites is reprehensible. There is no doubt that this use of force is illegal and it is wrong. But, it …
JAIPUR: The utilisation of external assistance for various projects being implemented in Rajasthan was reviewed at a high-level meeting here on Tuesday with a call to ensure full use of the money received and convert the schemes into
The Centre will on Tuesday hold a high-level meeting to finalise the implementation of the Rs 7277 crore Bundelkhand package announced earlier by the Government. The Union Rural Development Ministry, meanwhile, is all set to launch a pilot project in all the 13 districts of the Bundelkhand region to showcase …
The social sector agenda is now getting onerous This has to be the ultimate irony. Barely a few weeks after a Supreme Court committee comes out with a verdict that the public distribution system is bust and needs a drastic overhaul, the government clears a food security bill that seeks …
Devika Banerji / New Delhi April 5, 2010, 0:40 IST It is time, says the Planning Commission in its mid-term Plan appraisal, to address the continued slippage in spending on health and edcuation. Though the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has constantly termed these two sectors as priorities, the spending …
Pipariya: Janpad Panchayat president Arti Arjun Paliya today participated in a training programme organised for ASHA, Anganwadi workers and members of self-help groups and Sanjha Chulha programme. The training programme was organised under 'Aao Banaye Madhya Pradesh' (Build Madhya Pradesh Campaign). She said that the main aims of the programme …
The Centre's decision to redesign the scheme for providing urban amenities in rural areas could emerge as a new model for managing urbanisation of rural areas, says Arvind Mayaram THE FM in this year
The Jalabhishek Abhiyan being conducted for water conservation and augmentation in the state has assumed proportions of information technology since help of SMSes is being taken in this work now. Minister for Panchayats & Rural Development and Social Justice Gopal Bhargava has informed that the objective behind the SMS service …
An analysis of the Union Budget 2010-11 must take account of the fact that while expenditure on infrastructure is geared primarily towards meeting the long-term development needs of the business community, social welfare expenditure merely serves the purpose of immediate political gains of the parties in power.
The latest report on consumption levels and pattern of households in Delhi by State Directorate of Economics and Statistics. Provides details on important demographic features & other aspects of living conditions like energy source for cooking/lighting, dwelling ownership type, etc. See Also Feature: Changing livelihood pattern of slum dwellers in …
Smriti Kak Ramachandran GAYA: With poverty came illiteracy and with illiteracy came low self-esteem. The profundity of their low confidence can be gauged by their unanimous confession
NEARLY half the houses constructed for the rural poor have been cornered by others in connivance with local politicians, the government has admitted. It is now making efforts to ensure that only the targeted segment is included in the Indira Awaas Yojana scheme.
This paper provides an overview of some of the issues surrounding the use of renewable energy technologies (RETs) to increase access to modern energy services in rural areas. RETs include, inter alia, the provision of electricity generated from renewable sources such as wind, solar, water, tide/wave and geothermal, and the …
Devika Banerji / New Delhi March 29, 2010, 0:28 IST With the government resources for flagship schemes being limited, policy makers are exploring measures to enhance outcomes achieved through expenditure in the centrally-sponsored schemes (CSS). The thinking primarily is to create an autonomous Independent Evaluation Office (IEO), enhance auditing systems …
The UP have ranked at second place in the country for utilising funds allocated under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) which tantamount 85 percent more in comparison to previous year's record. The principal secretary (Rural Development), Shri Krishna on Sunday said, till March 20 of this fiscal …
The norms for construction of all-weather roads under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) are not being followed in Uttar Pradesh, a major beneficiary of the scheme and erring officials continue to work on projects that were dubbed by the Central monitoring agency as poor. Based on random inspection …
Concerned over the various complaints pouring in with regard to the quality of food given to students under the Mid-Day Meal scheme in schools, the Haryana government has entrusted the responsibility of preparation and distribution of food to self-help groups (SHGs) constituted by the rural development and panchayats and women …
