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 …
The school in the hamlet of Bagraha in Chitrakoot district has three rooms, but these are built only in name. There is dried mud in place of a floor, the walls are unplastered, and there are no windowpanes. A fan hangs in one room and some electrical fittings were put …
Panchayat and Rural Development Minister, Gopal Bhargav met the Union Rural Development Minister, CP Joshi here today and requested the latter to accord early sanction to the Rs 791 crore pending proposals of nine districts under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana. Bhargav also urged the Union Rural Development Minister …
The Government has spent Rs. 66,832 million for the development of rural villages, Nation Building and Estate Infrastructure Development Minister Rohitha Abeygunawardene told Parliament yesterday. The Minister said President Mahinda Rajapaksa presenting his manifesto 'Mahinda Chinthanaya' has clearly stated that infrastructure facilities should be prioritised for the development of rural …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called for an effective mechanism to oversee various poverty alleviation programmes considering that the government makes a sizable allocation for them every year. Addressing a conference of state ministers of rural development and panchayati raj in the Capital, the Prime Minister said allocations for poverty …
AIZWAL, Sept 8: By generating employment opportunities through infrastructure development projects, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) has helped people in rural areas of Mizoram. In Vairengte, located about 130 km from Aizawl, the State capital, many villagers are being employed in road construction projects. They earn rupees 103 …
Amidst the socio-economic and political upheavals plaguing the State, certain developments taking place in the interior areas have contributed towards employment generation and livelihood enhancement. Tuktuki and Katahguri are two of the villages to name among many in Nagaon district that have witnessed a revolution in fish production in the …
Sept. 8: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will address the state and UT rural development and panchayati raj ministers on Wednesday during a conference of the rural development ministry. The conference has been called to discuss the features of the proposed National Rural Livelihood Mission (NLRM) and the emerging issues in …
NEW DELHI: The Centre will launch a new scheme for integrated development of 1,000 villages, each with more than 50 per cent of Scheduled Caste population, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced on Monday. The Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana would be taken up on a pilot basis. It aimed at …
At the sleepy office of the Bundelkhand Vikas Nigam in Jhansi, senior assistant O P Gupta, lone member of the staff apart from a chaprasi and the newly appointed chairman, is clearly unaccustomed to visitors. He recalls the time when the Nigam
Sikkim Government has set up monitoring committees from the State to subdivision levels to protect the rights of the forest dwellers on the jungle resources. Under the system, the state-level monitoring committee under the chairmanship of the chief secretary has been entrusted with the task to lay down norms for …
Amita Verma Sept. 6: Film actor turned politician Raja Bundela will take out a "padyatra" from Chitrakoot in Uttar Pradesh to Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh in November to press for the demand for creation of a separate Bundelkhand state. Mr Bundela, who has been waging a long-drawn battle for Bundelkhand …
MALLARPUR, 4 SEPT: The State Bank of India (SBI) has adopted a tribal village in Birbhum district to improve the livelihood of the residents. This kind of a socio-economic effort would be the first-of-its-kind in Birbhum. The tribal village, Melteldanga under Mayureswar I block area, was selected by the state …
Sanjib Kumar Roy ISLAND PURA: ABDUL KALAM' S VISION FOR ANDAMANSEXTENDING his dream plan of PURA (providing urban amenities in rural areas) to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam said that he visualised Island PURA for the welfare and better employment opportunities of islanders. Dr …
A total of 829 works have been accorded administrative sanction MADURAI: Rural development works worth Rs. 6.83 crore such as laying roads to connect remote villages and constructing public distribution system shops will be taken up this fiscal in the district. A total of 829 works have been accorded administrative …
The NREGS week has worked wonders for Giridih. For the first time, all villages of the district got covered under the rural job scheme. This probably makes Giridih the first district in the state that can boast NREGS projects in all its revenue villages. The NREGS week was observed from …
AMIT AGNIHOTRI Following Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's directive towards convergence of NREGS with other agricultural and rural development schemes to minimise the impact of drought, the rural development ministry is planning innovation in the Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojna (SGSY). "We are contemplating combining NREGS to develop skills in the rural …
This publication, prepared by the United Nations University and the UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development, focuses on one of the themes from the World Water Forum held in Istanbul, Turkey, from 17-18 March 2009: it aims to contribute to the understanding of rural to rural, rural to urban and …
BHUBANESWAR: With the Centre fixing the wage under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) at Rs 100 a day per person, the flagship food security programme will benefit job seekers in the State. While the minimum wage fixed by the State Government is Rs 90, registered job seekers under …
