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 …
“If the State spends, more could be made available this year” The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has promised funds to Rajasthan in the power sector besides the bank's traditional areas of agriculture and rural development. The State has been told that if it can spend, additional …
This report on Sustainable Development in Pakistan prepared for the Conference gives a resume of progress made by the country in the implementation of Agenda and outcome of the World Summit on Sustainable development held at Johannesburg in 2002. It also highlights the challenges and constraints that the country has …
The prestigious Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) has spurned Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh’s offer to help restructure and professionalise the 25-year-old crippled CAPART, (Council for Advancement of People’s Action and Rural Technology). The Government agency that was set up with an aim to fund NGOs working for …
LUCKNOW: To give an impetus to developing rural infrastructure, NABARD has sanctioned a loan of Rs 808 crore to the government of Uttar Pradesh for augmenting irrigation facilities to small and marginal farmers. The amount of Rs 808.95 crore, issued to the state under the current tranche of Rural Infrastructure …
Guwahati, June 11: Union minister for rural development Jairam Ramesh today approved in principle connectivity to 270 habitations in Arunachal Pradesh with a cost of approximately Rs 1,918 crore in 2012-13. He also increased the allocation for an Indira Awas Yojana house from Rs 45,800 to Rs 75,000. Ramesh approved …
What the standing committee report on the land acquisition bill left out. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Rural Development’s 31st report on land acquisition released this May does not want the state-led “dominant domain” principle extended to public-private partnerships and private sector projects. It displays faith in eminent domain, land …
New Delhi: In a boost to making rural India free from open defecation, the Centre has increased the grant for construction of a toilet under the Total Sanitation Campaign from Rs 4,600 to Rs 10,000. The increase is in line with realistic estimates of construction, with many states having complained …
Former BJP legislator Shankar Oram has shot off a letter to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik seeking inquiry into sub-standard works of a rural road under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) in Bisra block of Sundargarh district. Oram said the 6.5-km stretch of the under-construction Sarubhal-Erla road has been …
The regulatory intervention by the RBI has not gone beyond providing a basic legal framework for the functioning of MFIs. IN an attempt to control the unethical characteristics of microfinance institutions (MFI) in India, including coercive recovery, exorbitant interest rates and lack of transparency in lending, the Reserve Bank of …
With Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on their side, the Orissa government has sidestepped the concerns expressed by Central intelligence agencies and the Home Ministry to work with gram panchayat heads who were elected unopposed. Panchayat polls in February had seen a jump in the number of candidates winning unopposed …
Chandigarh: The Punjab government is planning to start eco-tourism trail in Shivalik Hills where fossils of wild camel, horses and bulls dating back to nearly three million years have been found. The fossils, found during excavations in 20 villages in Mirzapur and Siswan area near Chandigarh, were sent to Wadia …
Taking successful development interventions to scale is critical if the world is to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and make essential gains in the fight for improved agricultural productivity, rural incomes, and nutrition. How to support scaling up in these three areas, however, is a major challenge. This collection of …
Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India had vide notification no. S.O. 2265(E) & S.O. 2266(E) dated 30th September, 2011, expanded the scope of works under schedule 1 Para 1 (ix) to include Access to Sanitation facilities and issued operational guidelines for these works. As per extant guidelines, assistance under …
The Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) has provided technical assistance to support government efforts to scale up rural sanitation since 2007 through Scaling Up Rural Sanitation (TSSM). One of the central objectives of this initiative is to learn how to improve rural sanitation at a scale sufficient to meet the …
Participatory three-dimensional modelling (P3DM) is a participatory geographic information system (PGIS) method that attempts to convey indigenous experience and spatial knowledge in a digital form that is communicable to researchers and policymakers, theoretically empowering indigenous communities with a voice in the legislative planning and management of natural resources. This manual …
Q&A; JAIRAM RAMESH RURAL DEVELOPMENT MINISTER Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has urged the government to cut fuel subsidies and take a quick decision on opening the retail sector to foreign investment, saying the time for pussyfooting is over. The IIT- and MIT-educated Ramesh said governance was about taking unpopular …
SRINAGAR: An amount of Rs. 318 crore has been spent under MGNREGA in Kashmir Division by completing 25142 works and generating 160 lakh mandays. The information was given in a high level meeting convened under the chairmanship of the Minister for Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Law Justice and Parliamentary Affairs …
MALKANGIRI: The Odisha Government must follow the Panchayat Extension to Scheduled Area (PESA) Act and the decision of the Palli Sabha regarding setting up of any industry in the scheduled area should be final, said Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh. He was speaking to PRI representatives on the premises …
BHUBANESWAR/MALKANGIRI: As a part of the Centre’s initiative to contain the spread of Maoism by taking up developmental projects in the affected areas, Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Monday visited Malkangiri district ahead of launching the Special Area Development Plan (SADP) project by the ministry in the region. …
A team comprising three executive engineers will examine roads constructed under Mukhyamantri Grameen Sadak Yojna in Rajgarh district. These instructions were given by Public Relations Minister and in-charge of Rajgarh district Shri Laxmikant Sharma at a meeting of district planning committee at Rajgarh today. He also instructed to suspend assistant …
