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 book discusses the past performance and present status of the agricultural sector in India and delineates the challenges faced by it in the era of economic reforms. The effectiveness of some of the existing schemes for agricultural development (price support, credit, marketing, rural/agricultural development experiences) in devising appropriate intervention …
This publication is the result of a joint effort by the FAO and the IFAD to address the linkage between water and rural poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. It takes stock of past experiences and demonstrates that there are many opportunities to invest in water in support of rural livelihoods. Its …
The technological and economic advances has only widened the urban-rural divide leaving the majority of the population of the country languishing in preindependence conditions. Over the years, several government agencies and a large number of voluntary organisations were involved in developing technologies that cater to the development of rural India. …
Can information and communication technologies (ICTs) support development and social infrastructure projects? Will the money invested in communication devices and computers bring in tangible benefits to the targeted group or it is better spent on providing food, shelter, health and education? This is the dilemma funding agencies and donor organisations/governments …
Going by the Mahinda Chinthana policies under which one is the upliftment of the rural sector enterprises, the Ministry of Science and Technology in collaboration with the Sri Lanka Standards Institution (SLSI) launched a programme to introduce its Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) scheme to the village level small and medium …
NABARD is set up as an apex Development Bank with a mandate for facilitating credit flow for promotion and development of agriculture, small-scale industries, cottage and village industries, handicrafts and other rural crafts. It also has the mandate to support all other allied economic activities in rural areas, promote integrated …
Sreelatha Menon / New Delhi July 30, 2008, 0:50 IST The UPA government is planning to amend the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) to redefine the beneficiaries under the Act. At present, the Act provides 100 days of work per household. The idea is to substitute the word
PALAKKAD: The grama panchayats should prepare plans for the development of watersheds in their respective areas and seek approval if they want it to be implemented under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), according to District Collector K S Sreenivas. Each watershed area should be considered as a unit …
The employees of Sindh Rural Development Project, local government department, have appealed to the Sindh government, the People's Party and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement to save the employees of the project and their families from starvation by regularising their services as they are likely to be rendered jobless with the …
BHUBANESWAR: An Assembly Standing Committee has pulled up the Rural Development Department for delay in the implementation of drinking water project in Sakhigopal and Kanas region of Puri district as a result of which people of the area are living without potable water for years. The panel members headed by …
NREGS wages paid through PO savings accounts 16 lakh NREGS accounts already opened Current target: 1 crore. Final target: 2 crore JAIPUR: The village post offices, slowly losing ground to the highly competitive private enterprises both in savings accounts and delivery of letters, are busy once again thanks to the …
Gautam Chakraborty, head of the previous board Malda, July 17: Development work by the zilla parishad here has come to a halt over the past five months and is likely to be delayed for another two, as the previous Congress-led board could not pass the budget earlier this year. "No …
Bangalore, DHNS: Now, NREGS (National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme) beneficiaries can take up works in their private land too... Rural Development and Panchayat Raj department has taken the decision to allow works related to rain water harvesting and afforestation under the scheme in private land. Since the introduction of the …
Bangalore: What with the country headed for Lok Sabha elections before the next budget, Yeddyurappa would be under political compulsion to deliver a populist budget to consolidate his party's position ahead of the general elections... As Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa rises to present his BJP government's maiden budget in …
A clinic in a village makes a difference even if the village happens to be Sakhipur in Greater Noida,within a stone's throw of New Delhi. The clinic, started by LG Electronics, opens in the morning. Patients come from 25 villages. One of them says: "The sarkari dispensary has been here …
The State Government has taken loan worth Rs 20,145.39 crore as on March 31, 2008. The break-up of the loan amount is Rs 8,259.95 crore (market loan), Rs 2,685.94 crore (Central Government), Rs 489.86 crore (Others), Rs 4,710.53 crore (National Small Saving Fund) and Rs 3,999.19 (State Provident Fund). The …
The Mewat Development Agency (MDA) has prepared a multi-sectoral district development plan of Rs 76.90 crore for Mewat in accordance with the Prime Minister's 15- point programme for the welfare of the minorities and as required by the Union Ministry of Minority Affairs. The plan was approved at the 24th …
