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 …
To bridge the huge shortfall of police personnel, the Home Ministry has requested the 13th Finance Commission to scale up resources of state governments with the specific objective of augmenting rural policing. The Home Ministry has said that state governments need to recruit about 5.6 lakh additional police personnel to …
MIRZA : The economic contribution made by the lakhs of poor people working in the backyard poultry units towards running the rural households is crucial. Indispensable part of almost every family, the non-descript local variety both of fowl and duck reared with zero input cost has ensured the nutritional requirement …
Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey Before tinkering with the NREGA in the name of reforms, the government must ensure that the foundations of the scheme are strengthened. No change should be introduced without a rigorous debate that centrally involves its primary constituents. As the Union Ministry of Rural Development attempts …
A CENTRAL team led by Union home secretary G K Pillai recently visited the district government hospital in Senapati, Manipur, to checkout the health facilities available, only to find the operation theatre (OT) locked. Not only did the hospital authorities have to struggle to locate the key when the officials, …
New Delhi: With concern being voiced over implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), the Centre has convened an all-party meeting here on Wednesday to discuss how its flagship programme for rural development could be run more effectively. "We have invited representatives from all the national parties to discuss …
AMIT AGNIHOTRI Aug. 25: AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi's social initiative is already transforming the lives of thousands of rural women in the backward Bundelkhand region in UP even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is planning development projects there. The AICC general secretary's vision of organising the poor to unleash …
Our politics of poverty is characterised by our poverty of politics. Although poverty is the overwhelming fact of our national life, it is hardly the theme of our politics. It is stunning rates of GDP growth that command the attention of Parliament and the media, hardly the accompanying deterioration in …
In a major boost to economic development of the rural areas of Darrang district, the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India has sanctioned an amout of Rs 12.83 crore for implementation of NREGA for the financial year 2009-10. This was stated in a communique of the Director (NREGA), Ministry …
Health, a state of complete physical and mental well-being and not merely the absence of diseases as defined by WHO, is the prerequisite of all-round development inclusive of socio-economic prosperity. Though stress has been laid on ensuring better health delivery system in rural areas but lack of proper sanitation has …
Priyadarshi Siddhanta The government may be keen to ensure food security for the poorer sections of the society, but the below-poverty-line debate continues unabated with consensus on the issue among the policy planners remaining elusive. Adding a new dimension to the issue, Planning Commission member Abhjit Sen has argued that …
Bowing to pressure from the hilly border State of Arunachal Pradesh, the Central Government has awarded a whopping financial package of Rs 300 crore to the State to bridge the existing
Food guarantee programme in next LS session PRO-POOR: Union Home Minister P.Chidambaram addressing an election meeting at Pudukottai in Tuticorin district on Monday. Tuticorin: The ruling coalitions at the Centre and the State were concerned about the well-being of the poor, Union Minister for Home P. Chidambaram said while campaigning …
MPs will head committees which will be set up to monitor various rural development schemes of the Centre, Rural Development Minister C P Joshi said answering supplementaries during Question Hour. "Orders in this regard would be issued soon," Joshi said amid thumping of desks by members. Members had long been …
- 25 labourers yet to get Rs 1000 each for road work, local administration cites legal hurdle SANTOSH K. KIRO Villagers of Getildih at the construction site. Picture by Prashant Mitra Bundu (Ranchi), Aug. 5: A compensation of Rs 10 lakh and the promise of free education may have eased …
Atiq Khan LUCKNOW: In a region notorious for its feudal mindset, where remnants of erstwhile aristocracy still rule the roost, an eight-page weekly, Khabar Lahariya is a ray of hope. It has created awareness among the oppressed and deprived sections of the Chitrakoot and the Banda districts in the Bundelkhand …
BHUBANESWAR: The Panchayati Raj Department has instructed the project directors of District Rural Development Agencies (DRDAs) that the selection of beneficiaries under Indira Awas Yojana (IAY) will be as per the 1997 BPL list till the revised list comes into force. It has come to the notice of the government …
THE ambit of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme has been significantly expanded by allowing under it work done on private land belonging to small and marginal farmers to create assets. Small and marginal farmers are those with landholding of less than two hectares. Together, they constitute 80% of farm …
