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 National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) has taken up the Maa Thota scheme in Andhra Pradesh to improve the lot of tribal families, and it has made impressive strides so far, according to Mr K.V.S.S.L.V Prasada Rao, its Assistant General Manager. At a press meet here on …
New Delhi:With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh calling for cutting red tape to promote investment and to fuel growth, the Centre has decided to retain a government role in acquiring land for private companies, rejecting a parliamentary panel recommendation barring states from aiding private bodies. The rural development ministry dubbed the …
MUMBAI: Governor of Maharashtra K Sankaranarayanan on Sunday will be launching 'Tree Plantation Campaign' at Raj Bhavan. The governor's office in association with a private organisation has organised this campaign in Mumbai. State government officials believe that Governor's initiative to increase green cover will encourage many other organisations and state …
Chandigarh: Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh today said Punjab could utilise only Rs 29 crore of the Rs 151 crore earmarked for the state to build rural toilets in the past 10 years. Clearly indicating that this was a case of mismanagement, Ramesh said instead of blaming someone else …
Rural people will now have more work opportunities under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guaranty Act (MNREGA) Scheme-2 as more than 30 new work sectors have been added in the scheme. Till now most works under Panchayat and Rural development department used to provide works under the scheme and thus, …
Kolkata, 4 JULY: Methane gas generated from human waste could be used to light up bio-toilets developed by scientists of the Defence Research and Development Organisation. Acting on suggestions made by the Union minister for rural development, Mr Jairam Ramesh, the premier research agency is now working to provide lighting …
An eight-member central team comprising members from the Planning Commission, Central Water Board and drainage experts on Monday visited the water-logged villages in Muktsar, where a large swath of land has turned barren. The team led, by Dr Mihir Shah, member, Planning Commission of India, visited the three worst-affected villages …
This paper reviews the progress of SHG-Bank linkage programme at the national and regional levels, and examines its impact on the socio-economic conditions of SHG member households. The programme has grown at a tremendous pace during last two decades and emerged as the most prominent means of delivering micro-finance services …
Over the past century, the world has seen a sustained decline in the proportion of people living in poverty. In the past three decades alone, the rate of extreme global poverty has been halved, a remarkable trend that is expected to continue. The Poverty and Welfare Impacts of Climate Change: …
Supply of migrant workers is drying up because of NREGS, say babus, industrialists and farmers. But workers themselves say this is not the case Patiala/Sangrur: Everyone agrees that the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is causing a shortage of agricultural labour. Everyone, except the workers themselves. For …
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Rural Roads Development Authority (RRDA) has started work to construct 3,000 kilometer long gravel roads in the state under Mukhyamantri Gram Sadak Yojna. These roads will be built in 12 districts of the state including Morena, Bhind, Sehore, Raisen, Vidisha, Rewa, Hoshangabad, Harda, Ujjain, Mandsaur, Narsinghpur and …
The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO)has set up a Rs 20,000 crore project to reach broadband connectivity to an estimated 2,50,000 villages. The aim of the project is to accelerate the delivery of government services in the villages. The proposal to establish the National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) to provide broadband …
“To stop such practices, the government should consider if the heads of the panchayati bodies can be given liberty similar to that of the ministers, chief ministers and the Prime Minister wherein it is allowed to assume office first and then get elected within six months.” KOLKATA, 26 JUNE: The …
There is increasing medical evidence that suggests that high incidence of malnutrition is the direct result of poor sanitation and hygiene. This is the larger context against which the department of rural development, drinking water and sanitation has launched the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Initiative). FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE It was …
The Centre has decided to put on hold its plans to move ahead with a legislation that would change the way land records are made, kept and used. The rural development ministry has decided not to push through the Land Titling Bill for the time being. “Twenty-five years ago, I …
A land record computerisation project titled Apna Khata (our account) launched in Rajasthan has bagged an international award in recognition of its significant contribution to rural development. The project was developed by the State office of the National Informatics Centre. NIC-Rajasthan team members received the “public choice award” at the …
Calling for research by defence scientists for the common man, Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Sunday said it did not matter how many Agni missiles India launched, but what mattered was toilets at home. Speaking at the launch of the first of bio-digester toilets developed by the Defence …
Launching green toilets very close to country's missile test-firing facility, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Sunday said there is no use blasting Agni missiles if the sanitation problem is not solved. Ramesh, who recently said he spends 18 hours on toilets daily, stressed that one of the biggest challenges …
BALASORE: People from rural pockets of coastal Balasore district commute daily to the town and work as masons, labourers at construction sites and get back home by evening. Even as this has solved labour problem in the construction sector, it dented the Union Government’s flagship programme - Mahatma Gandhi National …
State Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Rockybul Hussain has also admitted that the demand for jobs under the MGNREGA is decreasing in the State GUWAHATI: The status of the implementation of India’s flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), a rural job guarantee scheme, is very poor in …
