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 …
This report contains a detailed assessment of the status and potential for the development of biofuels in Cambodia and presents a country strategy for biofuels development consistent with the Greater Mekong Subregion Regional Strategic Framework for Biofuel Development. The objectives of the country assessment study are to: identify promising areas …
To ensure the works being carried out under the NREGS are transparent and qualitative the state government has introduced the social audit system which will also make the working agencies accountable for any lapses. The Rural Development Department has issued the order in this regard. The social audit system will …
The energetic focus on the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme appears to have overshadowed other rural development programmes in States, if one goes by the latest quarterly report of the Ministry of Rural Development. The obsession with this programme was visible on Thursday too when the Parliamentary Consultative Committee on …
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, which entitles rural households to 100 days of casual employment on public works at the statutory minimum wage, contains special provisions to ensure full participation of women. This paper, based on fieldwork in six states in 2008, examines the socio-economic consequences of the nrega …
BHUBANESWAR: The Government is facing a lot of flak from the public and social organisations for the large-scale felling of roadside trees. Even as the Works Department justified the cutting of trees for widening of the main thoroughfare of the city, activists of Prerana, a voluntary organisation protested during felling …
Jagraon: In an effort to uplift rural infrastructure and provide basic amenities to rural areas, Manpreet Singh Ayali, chairman of zila parishad, Ludhiana, today handed over the grant of Rs 5.21 lakh to Hans Kalan village sarpanch near here. This grant will be used for construction of toilets, construction of …
Since the Uttar Pradesh government stayed away from the meeting held at Orchha in Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday to discuss development of Bundelkhand through NREGS, the Centre has decided to hold a separate meeting for UP after the by-elections in November. The Congress, at the same time, accused UP of …
Transparency is the newest item on the agenda of many Rajasthan ministers and MPs. C P Joshi, the man who lost the Rajasthan Assembly elections last year by just one vote, to later become the Union minister for rural development, started the trend. He got 52 NGOs led by Mazdoor …
It took over three decades for the CPI-M-led state government to gulp the hard fact that majority of the people living in the rural areas are ignorant of their rights about several schemes of the state rural and panchayat development department. After the state government learnt its lesson following the …
The Lakhimpur district authority has released Rs 31.73 lakh for development of rural roads for Telahi Developmental Block under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) for Assam 2008-09. Rs 10.65 lakh has been sanctioned for the brick soling of the Gohain Tekela PWD road to Majguri under the Telahi …
Jagraon: Jagjit Singh Talwandi, former chairman, Punjab Small Scale Industries, along with Mohan Singh Talwandi, circle president, SAD, Raikot, and JE Jawahar Lal of block samiti, disbursed a grant of Rs 33 lakh for the development of 45 villages here yesterday. The grant was given to sarpanches at Gurdwara Tahliana …
MUMBAI: "There is one India living in the urban areas, which is completely different from the one in rural India. We have to connect the two so that the latter also enjoys the fruits of India's growth,'' said AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi at a rally in Panvel on Thursday. …
The Performance Review Committee of the ministry of rural development took stock of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, and Indira Awas Yojana (IAY) on Thursday. On Friday the PRC will appraise the National Social Assistance Program and Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana along with training programmes of the ministry. …
A total sum of Rs 192.42 lakh has been released for 12 GPs of Dhakuakhana sub-division by the Lakhimpur deputy commissioner under the NREGA Programme. The fund was released through the DRDA for various rural development works by Jayant Narlikar, DC, Lakhimpur. Earlier, Rs 132.35 lakh were released by the …
Lamenting high level of wastage and very low value addition in farm products in the country, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called for rationalisation of tax structure for the food processing industry
