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 …
Strong rural organizations like producer groups and cooperatives are crucial to hunger and poverty reduction. They allow small producers to play a greater role in meeting growing food demand on local, national and international markets, while improving their own economic, social and political opportunities. This thinking connects a series of …
This Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (C&AG;) on Government of Odisha relates to matters arising from Performance Audit of selected programmes and activities and Compliance Audit of Government departments and Autonomous Bodies. The primary purpose of the Report is to bring to the notice of the …
Both women and men play a significant role in safeguarding food security, and their respective roles and responsibilities need to be well understood to ensure that men and women benefit equally from climate-smart agriculture practices. Little research, however, has been undertaken to understand how men and women are adapting to …
SHILLONG: The state government has today said that the proposed Integrated Basin Development would eradicate poverty by the year 2020 if implemented in the 12th 5-year plan, beside other benefit like creating a multiplier effect in the rural economy. Expected outcome from this proposed integrated basin also include the entrepreneurial …
The State Government’s claim of increasing the growth rate has fallen flat. In Madhya Pradesh, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the year 2010-11 was recorded at 8.17, whereas in 2009-10 it was 10.50. Thus it clearly indicates a downfall of more than 2 per cent in GDP of the …
Speakers at a launching ceremony of 'Social Watch Report-2012' said the rich countries responsible for climate change should assist Bangladesh to face the environmental challenge. Climate change is a serious threat to Bangladesh as rise of sea level due to global warming might displace millions of people living in coastal …
Can Jairam Ramesh become the next president of the World Bank? Unlikely, but in the steady drumbeat of the demand that the next World Bank president must come from the developing world, the rural development minister’s name is being heard alongside several other competent names from the wrong side of …
Amid increasing pointers to a slowdown in the hinterland, the Government is planning to conduct its Sixth Economic Census in collaboration with states during the course of this year. The focus, for the first time ever, will be on gathering entrepreneurial data at village and ward level, especially for unorganised …
Jharkhand wants the Centre’s go-ahead for forest diversion to set up 17 CRPF camps in Saranda, even though forest clearance authority lies with the state and the move is only expected to delay the process of setting up security hubs in the saal reserve. Sources said in a letter last …
Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday cleared the decks for a huge fund outlay which is set to bolster Bihar's rural infrastructure. Speaking to journalists here, Mr. Ramesh said the Union Rural Ministry would pump in Rs. 2,500 crore for laying of over 6,500 km of rural roads …
PATNA, 14 FEB: Against the backdrop of alleged irregularities in implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme (MNREGA) in Uttar Pradesh, Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh today said the onus was also on the states to keep a “strict vigil” to prevent misuse of central funds and …
GUWAHATI, Feb 12 – The Union Ministry for Rural Development will put more emphasis on Pure Drinking Water and Total Sanitation Programme so that the vision and objective of Nirmal Gram can truly be achieved in Assam. This was stated by Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh in his …
Chief Secretary Avani Vaish has instructed at a meeting at Jabalpur to give special priority to the construction of rural roads and buildings of schools and Anganwadis in the districts covered by Integrated Action Plan (I.A.P). The Chief Secretary was reviewing development works of Balaghat, Mandla, Seoni, Dindori, Umaria, Anuppur, …
Guwahati, Feb. 12: Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh today took strong exception to corruption in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Guarantee Act scheme and urged governments not to make the flagship programme a hotbed of corruption. “NREGA is not a scheme to buy Boleros and Pajeros, it is to …
Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has favoured flexibility in rules in the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) for Arunachal Pradesh for better conectivity. The issue came up during a review meeting of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana for the Northeast today when it was pointed out by Arunachal …
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi on Wednesday announced budget estimates for the year 2012-13, significantly increasing the councillors' funds in all the wards and focusing on improvement and development of roads and existing infrastructure. With the MCD headed for a split this coming April, Leader of the House Subhash Arya …
Madhya Pradesh stands fourth in the country in the implementation of MNREGA. So far, Rs. 17,730 cr have been spent on basic development works and village uplift in the state under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. More than 9.78 lakh works have been undertaken and employment worth 132 …
Ramesh for granting states discretion over 50% of funds for central schemes. The upcoming budget is likely to give state governments discretionary powers over about 50% of funds under central government schemes, a move that will allow better utilisation of resources. “The current way of functioning is not ideal...State governments …
ROURKELA: Armed with the Saranda Action Plan, Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Monday detailed his much-hyped ‘peace offensive’ to curb insurgency along the Odisha-Jharkhand border. On his second visit to the Maoist-infested Saranda forest region in the neighbouring Jharkhand, Ramesh laid the foundation stone for the Integrated Development …
The Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Assam has been publishing this annual report “Economic Survey, Assam” regularly with a view to focus the trends of performance based development of the State economy. In the current issues the report endeavor has been made to depict and analyze the latest economic situation …
