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 effort to edge out the Reserve Bank of India from the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development's shareholding does not bode well for the future of agricultural and rural credit in the country. This is particularly so, if the past experience with the Industrial Development Bank of India …
New Delhi, 18 Sept: India today announced a new US$ 40 million line of credit to mineral-rich Burundi and signed a slew of MoUs in areas of rural development, education and health and medicine with the eastern African nation. Noting that there was great potential to further strengthen bilateral trade …
The Centre-sponsored rural tourism projects in the State are moving at a slow pace. The Ministry of Tourism had started these projects in 2007 not only to promote rural tourism but also provide opportunities to rural populace to improve their socio-economic condition. In Odisha, the ministry had identified eight villages …
Rs.1.71 crore for strengthening and laying black-topped roads The National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development (NABARD)has sanctioned over Rs.4 crorefor developing rural infrastructure in the district RIDF According to a NABARD release, under the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) tranche XVIII it has sanctioned Rs.1.71 crore for strengthening and …
Rapped by the Supreme Court for its failure to eliminate manual scavenging 65 years post-Independence, the government introduced in the just-concluded monsoon session of Parliament a new Bill to prohibit the practice and bar manual cleaning of septic tanks and sewers across India. The law, “The Prohibition of Employment as …
Despite having reached the half-way mark, the Odisha Government has laid out an ambitious plan to achieve total sanitation by 2019. By March, the sanitation coverage in the State stood at 55.33 per cent as per the Total Sanitation Campaign monitoring data of Government of India. Given the rate, the …
Authorities in a major Chinese coal-producing province on Wednesday announced they had shut down 754 illegal mining sites in an intensive five-month crackdown since April. The crackdown was targeted at the unlicensed operation of mines and illegal mining under the cover of projects concerning ecological restoration, village resettlement and rural …
Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has ruled out any significant changes in the land acquisition bill. “There will be no significant changes to the bill. Just like the Supreme Court has ruled that there is a basic structure to the Constitution, there is a basic structure to the bill that …
India’s indigenous Adivasi tribes are among the most disadvantaged people south of the Himalayan mountains. To improve their lot, some have begun to set up community-based organisations.
Investing in livestock can sustain livelihoods and spur economic growth according to this new book published by FAO. It illustrates that effective policies and institutions are essential for equitable livestock sector development. Livestock contribute to the livelihoods of an estimated 70 percent of the world’s rural poor. The increasing demand …
This new report by MHHDC addresses governance from the point of view of empowerment. It analyses governance of political, economic, and social institutions from the perspective of how people are being empowered in South Asia. This report addresses governance from the point of view of empowerment. It analyses governance of …
New Delhi: After getting the UPA government to sanction two central universities for Bihar, chief minister Nitish Kumar has now got the Centre’s clearance for construction of 3,846km of rural roads and 96 bridges that will cost Rs 2,439 crore. The state will spend only Rs 54.41 crore, with the …
Rising inflation and a slowdown in growth had little impact on the rural consumption patterns which outpaced urban spending in the two year period between 2009-10 and 2011-12. Rural consumption expenditure outpaced that in urban India by 25 per cent, the first such phenomenon in over two decades, a report …
Commerce Minister Anand Sharma led the opposition to the controversial Land Acquisition Bill piloted by Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh in the Cabinet today citing an adverse effect on the investment climate, forcing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to defer the issue to a Group of Ministers (GoM). Sharma did not …
PATNA, 26 AUG: Basic infrastructure development is “very very poor” in north and eastern India, rural development minister Jairam Ramesh said today while suggesting that time had come for revisiting strategy of both the Centre and the states for rural areas. “Right now the big challenge for us is north …
Rural development minister says mining one of key issues contributing to Maoist stranglehold over mineral-rich forest areas. Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has pitched for a moratorium on new mining projects in the worst Naxalaffected regions and particularly in areas recently recaptured from insurgents, saying it was essential to quell …
Sure, the rains are picking up, but droughts will strike again. How the govt can boost incomes of farm help to enable them to face a drought better — in the short, medium and long term. John Samuel Raja D reports. The rains are picking up, but still the latest …
AIZAWL, Aug 15 (IANS): Mizoram will be the gateway to Southeast Asian countries after the construction of the Kaladan Multimodal Transit Transport Project in neighbouring Myanmar, Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla said here Wednesday. "The Multimodal Transit Transport Project would not only improve connectivity between northeast India and Southeast Asian nations …
A three-day orientation workshop on new livelihood projects in Rajasthan ended here on Thursday with the resolve to extend the benefits to the deserving people among the poor. The Rajasthan Gramin Ajeevika Vikas Parishad (RGAVP) announced that it would spend Rs.35 crore on implementation of the Rajasthan Rural Livelihood Project …
The empowered group of ministers (EGoM) on drought, headed by agriculture minister Sharad Pawar, is likely to meet on Thursday to review the drought situation in the country. It will be the second meeting of the EGoM and the first after the weather office officially declared deficient rains this year, …
