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 …
Even as the UPA government has already broad-based the types of jobs to be taken under its flagship rural employment scheme under the NREGA, the representatives of regional parties on Tuesday asked for further expansion of its scope and bringing in more transparency in implementing the programme. The leaders of …
Kanika Datta / New Delhi October 6, 2009, 0:27 IST The 2009 Magsaysay Award winner explains why he thinks the NREGA is critical. Deep Joshi retired from the rural development NGO Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN) two years ago, but it took him nearly a month to find time …
Gram Nyayalaya Act comes into force, aimed at creation of 5,000 rural courts across the country, in an effort to reduce pendency of cases in courts. The ambitious project seeks to set up courts at the panchayat-level to dispense speedy justice and has been a part of the wider judicial …
The Renewable Energy for Rural Livelihoods (RERL) project tries to demonstrate the use of renewable sources of energy in reducing poverty through improved quality of life and increased livelihood opportunities in remote, non-electrified villages of India that are not likely to get electricity from the grid. The objectives of the …
The Renewable Energy for Rural Livelihoods (RERL) project tries to demonstrate the use of renewable sources of energy in reducing poverty through improved quality of life and increased livelihood opportunities in remote, non-electrified villages of India that are not likely to get electricity from the grid. The objectives of the …
This report details the investment required to ensure food security in 2050, noting both the impacts of climate change on agricultural production, as well as the mitigation potential of agriculture. Underscoring the uneven distribution of climate change impacts on crop production, the report suggests that countries in the Southern hemisphere …
On your inspiration I studied engineering, but was convinced I was not meant for it. During my stint with Ford Foundation, I worked with a doctor couple from Johns Hopkins University, USA. They were training rural women in Maharashtra as community health workers. I realized that is exactly what I …
The Union Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Ministry and the Rajasthan Government are giving final touches to a mega event to mark the half century of Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) at Nagaur, where on October 2, 1959, Jawarharlal Nehru, as Prime Minister inaugurated the three-tier Panchayati Raj System in the …
Direct cash transfer is a better way to help the poor than rural employment guarantee Arvind Panagariya Economic reforms that helped produce sustained rapid growth during the last two decades have cut the proportion of the rural population living below the poverty line from 46 per cent in 1983 to …
The 11th meeting of the governing body of the State Institute of Rural Development, Assam was held recently. The meeting was presided over by Minister, P&RD; Chandan Brahma. Among others, Principal Secretary of P&RD;, Arun Kumar, senior officers of planning and development, finance, senior bank officials, NGO representatives and SIRD …
BHUBANESWAR: The Swarnajayanti Gram Sworajgar Yojana (SGSY), the massive self-employment programme of the Government, will now be implemented in a mission mode under a restructured scheme called National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM). The NRLM to be launched from the current financial year is aimed at mobilising all the rural BPL …
An expert group of the Rural Development Ministry on the methodology for conducting the BPL census for the 11th Five Year Plan has suggested to the Orissa government that the actual level of BPL population in the state should be revised upwards to 84.47 per cent from the present level …
V Ashok Kumar | INSPIRED by former President A P J Abdul Kalam, a group of college students here has formed an association to uplift villages in the district. Around 1,000 students from 50 colleges across the city are members of Kalam Students Foundation, which will focus on improving the …
After reports of Union Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee having stalled the Bill seeking amendment to the Land Acquisition Act in the Cabinet, Rural Development Minister C P Joshi on Tuesday said that the Bill had been cleared by the Cabinet and it is only a matter of procedure before it …
With Centre's plan to launch National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) by the end of the year, the Ministry of Rural Development has decided to set up 500 Rural Self-employment Training Institutes (RSETI), almost one in each rural district of the country. The Centre has already granted approval for setting up …
In a move that is bound to trigger angry reactions from the states, the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) has decided that the estimation of the Below Poverty Line (BPL) numbers by the government would be considered final for the proposed National Food Security Act (NFSA), thereby nipping in the …
GOACAN convenor Roland Martins has stated that the panchayat is a local self-governing authority and the development of the village is required to be planned by the panchayat as per the wishes of the villagers. He was speaking at the citizens awareness drive
