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 …
A Bill to amend the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005. This Act may be called the National Rural Employment Guarantee (Amendment) Act, 2009. http://www.prsindia.org/uploads/media/NREGA/The%20National%20Rural%20Employment%20Guarantee%20Amendment%20Bill%202009.pdf
Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Gopal Bhargava today said in the Assembly that a total of 1.15 crore job cards have been prepared under the National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme (NERGS) while the number of beneficiaries has been only 40 lakh in the state. Addressing the House during a call …
NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved a Rs.7,277-crore Drought Mitigation Special Package for the integrated development of the drought-hit Bundelkhand region in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh from 2009 to 2010. The package covers seven districts of Uttar Pradesh (Banda, Chitrakoot, Hamirpur, Jalaun, Jhansi, Lalipur and Mahoba) and …
A group of NGOs have asked the Centre to set up a non-Governmental authority for monitoring, evaluation and grievance redressal related to implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. However, the Ministry of Rural Development did not seem ready to accept the proposal. One of the architects of the proposal, …
MUKESH RANJAN Congress general magic appears to have done the trick, as the Centre has worked out a special package of Rs 7,000 crores for Bundelkhand region comprising districts of Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Madhya Pradesh (MP). The Union Cabinet is likely to clear it in its meeting on Thursday. …
BHUBANESWAR: Continuing to face stiff opposition at its project site in Jagatsinghpur, Posco-India has announced formation of POSCO Foundation for successful implementation of its social welfare programmes. The announcement comes as per the discussions of CEO, Psoco Joon-Yang Chang with Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik during the former
BHUBANESWAR: In a bid to expedite construction of roads under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), the State Government today decided to relax norms for leasing out stone quarries for manufacturing stones and chips. A decision in this regard was taken at a high-level meeting presided over by Chief …
CHENNAI: The World Bank recently gave its consent for a proposal to construct 17,000 houses under the Emergency Tsunami Reconstruction Project, according to Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi. He mentioned the multilateral agency
K. Balchand NEW DELHI: Anxious to spur up the rural economy in the naxal-affected districts of the country, the Centre has underlined the imperativeness to implement the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in a more meaningful manner. Rural Development Department secretary Rita Sharma took up the matter with the …
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi who attended the Assam Moran Sabha at Wathoi under Buridihing Mouza today, applauded the Sabha for their efforts to amalgamate and unite the people to take the community forward. Gogoi mentioned that the Government has formulated a policy of rural-oriented programmes, adding that only rural development …
The development of rural housing in a manner that results in adequate, quality shelter for inhabitants of Mahatma Gandhi’s “real India” is a challenge before the nation. What are the issues confronting rural housing development in India? The litany of its woes is endless. At first impression, rural housing is …
At a time of when the extension of panchayati raj to the entire country is frequently cited as a major achievement of India's democracy, there are thousands of villagers who are still deprived of the coverage of panchayati raj and its numerous benefits. These villagers are called taungya settlers.
Assessing impacts of public investments has long captured the interest and attention of the development community. This paper presents the evolution of different methods and approaches used for ex ante appraisal, monitoring, project evaluation, and impact assessment over the last five decades. Among these tools, impact assessment (IA) conducted retrospectively …
Faced with increasing global hunger, which exceeded a billion people following the food and financial crises, the international community is committed to redouble its efforts to fight hunger and malnutrition. This paper argues that whereas the overall global picture is not good, there are several examples of success
