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 …
Works would be undertaken under National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in the National Parks. This information was given by Forest Minister Kunwar Vijay Shah at a meeting of officers of National Parks, Forest Department and National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme . This meeting of officers of National Rural Employment Guarantee …
In the wake of a CAG report pointing to "significant deficiencies' in the implementation of UPA Government's flagship National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme, the Union Rural Development Ministry has decided to keep all the In a recent letter to all MPs, Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad has informed them about …
UPLIFTING RURAL ECONOMY: S.R.Rao, executive Director of Exim Bank (right), exchanging a memorandum of understanding on export of rural products with P.K.Kesavan (left), Director (Rural Business Hubs), Union Ministry of Panchayat Raj, in the presence of Mani Shankar Aiyar, Union Minister for Panchayat Raj, and Jairam Ramesh, Union Minister of …
BRAC Bank has asked for permission to open 140 new branches this year as part of a huge expansion scheme aimed at bringing full banking services to rural areas. The move, if approved by Bangladesh Bank, will almost quadruple the size of the bank's existing branch network and will be …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and finance minister P Chidambaram are expected to hold a meeting just before the Union Budget to discuss key issues. Budget 2008-08 is set to spell out various schemes and plans to boost agriculture and rural sectors. In a recent meeting with the finance minister, the …
National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme provides for 100 man days of work for a person a year Ariyalur Collector Xavier Chriso Nayagam (right), with students of Meenakshi Ramasami College at Thathanur in Ariyalur district enrolled under NREGP. ARIYALUR: For 200 students of Meenakshi Ramasami College tucked in Thathanur, a nondescript …
This article critically examines the use of the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund by different states and finds that a number of aspects need to be improved to ensure proper utilisation and to reduce intra-rural disparity in India. Feb 16-22, 2008
the Goa chief minister's unwillingness to allow special economic zones (sez s)in his state must have mildly zapped his central colleagues (see p 24). Has he become a socialist? Doesn't he aspire for his state? But what Digambar Kamat did was to please his electorate; his energy has deflated the …
prime Minister Manmohan Singh rightly called Naxalism a "virus' during a meeting with chief ministers of Naxalite-affected states. Unfortunately, he did not take the analogy further. A virus cannot grow or reproduce without a living cell. Naxalites, thus, must have living hosts. Singh failed to identify the living organism that …
Prosperity of a nation depends on the status and development of its women more, as women not only constitute nearly one third of its human resource population but also influence the growth of remaining two third of the human resource. Realizing the importance of farm-women, from Ist to Vth plan, …
This book presents the spatio-temporal and gender appraisal Human Development Index (HDI) of all the 237 Panchayat Samitis of Rajasthan. Interpreting spatial distribution pattern of HD at Panchayat Samiti Level, it provides temporal appraisal of HDI in two points of time: 1991 and 2001. It also presents gender appraisal of …
How will vast regions of India, where highly unreliable rainfall makes the difference between famine and sustenance, cope with climate change? Over 85 per cent of the cultivated area in this country is either directly dependent on rain or depends on rain to recharge its groundwater. Seasonal rain provides water …
The centre, in a major reshuffle of rural development programmes, has brought down the number of centre-sponsored schemes from 214 to 99, says an official of the Union Ministry of Rural Development. It will leave 18 central ministries with no development schemes to implement. Efforts are on to streamline them …
