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 …
About 1.87 crore below poverty line families, holding white ration cards in Andhra Pradesh would start getting rice at Rs 2 per kg within a week. The State Cabinet, which met here on Thursday put its stamp of approval on the welfare scheme which will put an over all burden …
Rural Development Minister, Raghuvansh Prasad Singh today was all praises for the flood control works undertaken under National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) schemes initiative in BTAD area in Assam. Addressing a press conference to mark the extension of the NREGA schemes to cover the entire country, Union Rural Development …
Corporate social responsibility or CSR has come to be regarded mostly as a farce. . Indian companies put a little money into CSR to make themselves look good. It is important for them to be seen as caring. For the record, CEOs pay the usual lip service to development and …
Report by the task group set-up for analyzing the problems of hilly habitations in areas covered by the Hill Areas Development Programme/Western Ghats Development Programme. The mountain ranges and hill areas of India have a crucial role to play in determining the climate and physiography of the country and are …
Funds generated through community forestry offer crucial and significant resources for rural development in Nepal. This study examines forestry funds in 100 communities in three districts to assess how large they are and how they are utilized. The study finds that the income from community funds increases local development resources …
The Union Rural Development Ministry has asked the northeastern States to follow the National Land Resource Management Programme (NLMP) to develop wasteland for industrial purposes. The ministry has also directed these industrially backward States to follow the NLMP on a time bound basis to do the land-mapping through satellite, official …
The judgment one reaches on what the current year's Budget will do for farmers will vary depending on whether its provisions are seen as a sui generis exercise or are viewed within a longer term perspective that encompasses an awareness of the continuing and relentless drive to implement neoliberal policies …
Temjen Kaba, president Ao Senden on March 26 urged all local bodies of Mokokchung district to improve proper coordination with the implementing agencies of different flagship schemes on Bharat Nirman Programmes sponsored by the Central Government for ensuring economic advancement of target beneficiaries, stated a press release. The Ao body …
Dilapidated roads, un-electrified villages betray govt claims The claims of the coalition government to provide a responsive, efficient and people-friendly administration and its commitment to provide the citizens all basic amenities stare in disdain, when the reports of dilapidated roads in different parts of the state and villages without electricity …
The Government has embarked on an expedited mega development drive for rural villages in the South for which Rs. 2,500 million has been allocated in line with the Mahinda Chinthana 10-year development plan. According to the Ministry of Nation Building and Estate Infrastructure Development, the allocation is to be utilised …
Chief Minister Digambar Kamat has said that his government is committed for the welfare of needy and poor people and is giving a priority to the development of rural areas. He was speaking at the Youth Convention organised by the Sattari Yuva Morcha at Nanus-Valpoi on Sunday. Speaker Pratapsingh Rane, …
With the long awaited approval of the post-Parthasarathy Committee common guidelines for watershed development finally being given in February 2008, it is time now to push hard for actualising the suggested radical reforms at the cutting edge level of implementation.
National Bank Limited (NBL) plans to go for massive expansion in rural areas, eyeing more income from remittance services, NBL officials said yesterday. "If we get permission to open 10 branches out of 25 we have applied for, we'll open most of the branches in rural areas in 2008,' NBL …
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has sanctioned a total amount of Rs 22.33 cr loan for development of roads and drinking water facilities in Mizoram, an official statement said here today A sum of Rs 7.21 crore would be spent for implementing 17 new and 12 ongoing …
Tripura Governor D N Sahaya has assured that the newly formed Left Front Government in Tripura would give utmost importance to eradication of poverty and improvement of overall socioeconomic condition of the people. Addressing the first session of the 10th Tripura Legislative Assembly here yesterday, Sahaya said a number of …
A tool to empower people in Assam's rural areas now faces serious threats as a result of Government apathy and public disinterest. The overall scene of rural libraries in the State is bleak with only a few having proper infrastructure, funds and personnel. In some libraries books are scarce or …
A five-day Afro-Asian workshop on Innovative Micro-credit Delivery Systems for Rural Poverty Alleviation began at Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD) in Comilla yesterday. Secretary to Rural Development and Cooperatives Division ATM Fazlul Karim inaugurated the workshop as the chief guest while Dr Abdalla Yahia Adam, secretary general, Afro-Asian Rural …
It was the mid-1980s. Environmentalist Anil Agarwal was on a mission: track down the person who had conceptualized the employment guarantee scheme in Maharashtra. His search - I tagged along - led him to a dusty, file-filled office in the secretariat. There we met V S Page. I remember a …
