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 …
Senior BJP leader L K Advani has praised the UPA government’s flagship programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), for empowering villagers and reviving economic growth. During an address at the 67th session of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, Advani said MGNREGS is the world’s “largest …
UNITED NATIONS, 10 OCT: While the Opposition is going hammer and tongues at the UPA government over various issues, BJP leader LK Advani complimented its flagship programme, MGNREGA, which he said has helped empower rural people and revive economic growth. “This programme has helped break down social inequalities, empower rural …
GoM on Bill may meet again today to resolve issues including retrospective acquisition The group of ministers set up to resolve differences over the proposed Land Acquisition Bill failed to reach a consensus in its second meeting on Monday, spelling further delay in the landmark legislation. The GoM, headed by …
Chandigarh: The Centre on Sunday rejected Punjab’s charge that it was “deliberately denying” the state a drought-relief package in the wake of deficient monsoon rains. “There is no such thing. There is no truth in this,” Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh told PTI in Mohali on the sidelines of …
The State Government has set a target to complete at least 500 out of the 823 road projects sanctioned by the Centre under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) on September 12. The projects sanctioned by the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) will provide all-weather connectivity to more than …
Verghese Kurien, who passed away recently, will be best known for building Amul into one of India's most valuable brands which is an organisation of nearly three million smallholder dairy producers and a Rs 12,000 crore farmer-owned business. He will also be remembered for creating the National Dairy Development Board …
The first meeting of the Group of Ministers on a proposed land acquisition law succeeded in narrowing down some of the differences of various ministries though a few contentious issues remain resolved. A watered down draft law put forward by the Rural Development Ministry had already addressed some of the …
May incorporate an industry-friendly provision that will allow the government to acquire land for showcase projects such as the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial corridor. Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh is expected to offer a significant concession to industry in the contentious land bill and incorporate a provision that will allow the government …
Bhubaneswar: The successful implementation of the Forest Rights Act (FRA) by the Odisha government has earned appreciation from the Union secretary of the tribal affairs ministry Vibha Puri Das. Member National Advisory Council NC Saxena also praised the State on FRA implementation. They were attending a two-day regional workshop held …
BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha Government has decided to sink over 32,000 tube-wells near anganwadi centres (AWCs) in its bid to provide drinking water to all these ICDS utilities. Following a direction from the Orissa High Court to ensure drinking water provision to AWCs, the Government has decided that the year’s entire …
Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Sunday said solution to internal security threat does not lie merely in weeding out Naxals in security operations. Ramesh had called a group of Gandhians and activists working in Naxal-affected areas here to take home an 11-point charter of measures for implementation. The …
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.
