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 report was prepared by Dr. Mihir Shah, Member, Planning Commission to examine ways in which the Operational Guidelines of MGNREGA could be revised.
Bhubaneswar: A World Bank team on Monday praised the Odisha government for the overall progress in three of its projects being implemented with an estimated $404.8 million. However, it advised the government to speed up utilisation of funds. Briefing newsmen after a joint review of externally-aided projects presided over by …
BANKURA/PURULIA, 24 JAN: Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh today granted Rs 2,000 crore for providing safe drinking water to the people of Bankura district. “The Centre has approved Rs 1,000 crore for the first phase implementation of the project,” the minister said here today. Mr Ramesh held a meeting …
Shimla: The World Bank has sanctioned Rs 74.24 crore for the remaining 37 roads and bridges in different parts of the state. Stating this here yesterday, Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal said he had received a communication from Union Minister of Rural Development Jairam Ramesh in this regard. He said …
Lump sum funds will now be made available to Gram Panchayats for development and construction works under Panch Parmeshwar Yojna. This will accelerate the pace of rural development will lead to co ncretization of the concept of Golden Madhya Pradesh. These views were expressed by Minister of State for Food, …
Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has said that the Union Government will not exercise any discrimination with States in rural development programmes. He said the Union Government will give clearance to all the important proposals to be sent to it regarding rural development and will not allow any fund …
* A group of contract labourers work to complete the paving of a 2-km kuchcha road running through open fields. Less than 300 metres are left — they have been instructed to use the tractorloads of bricks as fast as they can. * A Dalit colony, inhabited by the Baazigar …
JAMMU: National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has formulated potential-linked credit plans ( PLCPs) worth Rs 4,180 crore to give a boost to the agriculture sector in Jammu and Kashmir in 2012-13. "The credit potential under the priority sector, estimated at Rs 4,180 crore, is the aggregation of …
BHUBANESWAR: The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) on Thursday announced a credit plan of Rs 30,000 crore for the State for 2012-13. Last year the Bank had made a credit plan of Rs 25,000 crore. NABARD’s Chief General Manager (CGM), Odisha Circle, K K Gupta, said that …
KOLKATA, 10 JAN: The new minister for panchayat and rural development department, Mr Subrata Mukherjee, today warned gram panchayats that funds in future would be withheld in case of poor performance. Ahead of the panchayat polls the performance list of the gram panchayats are sure to come in handy since …
Bhopal : Houses are being made available to the poor and needy in the rural areas of Madhya Pradesh under Chief Minister’s Rural Housing Mission. Beneficiaries of the scheme are provided loans for construction of houses through banks. Madhya Pradesh Rural Roads Development Authority Chief Executive Officer Shri Ajay Tirkey …
Kandi (Murshidabad), Jan. 4: Residents of a Murshidabad village have given up their land to build a road that will reduce the distance to the nearest place where schools, government offices and banks are located, the endeavour inspired by a similar effort in a neighbouring pocket. Ninety villagers of Tentulia …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government will shortly send the action plan under the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) to the Centre for approval. Though the Government had decided to include all the blocks under NRLM in phases during the next five years, the programme will be implemented in four blocks each …
GUWAHATI, Jan 1 – Asserting that militancy had been on the wane with most of the outfits engaged in peace talks, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today announced a number of ‘special initiatives’ aimed at boosting the spheres of education, health, rural development, border area development, etc. The schemes would be …
Urges Montek to consider changes for effective implementation of projects in LWE-affected areas With an eye to ensure that the government’s development efforts are effective in the Left Wing extremistaffected areas, the rural development ministry is pushing to make block the basic unit and involve elected representatives in the rolling …
The spikes in global food prices in 2007-8 served as a wake-up call to the global community on the inadequacies of our global food system. Commodity prices doubled, the estimated number of hungry people topped one billion, and food riots spread through the developing world. A second price spike in …
The present issue of the Statistical Year Book India 2012 is 45th edition of the publication in the series. The present volume of the publication contains comprehensive data on economic and social sectors, spread in 44 chapters covering more than 350 tables. The data includes the latest state-wise indicators. In …
Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has pointed to “operational” shortcomings in the government’s efforts to tackle the decades-old Maoist insurgency through developmental work and urged greater political involvement to deal with it more effectively. The minister made the suggestion in a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after touring Left-wing …
Priyungal, a far-flung village situated at an altitude of 2,600 m in Kolka gram panchayat in Chamba district, has been identified to be made as a ‘model village’ under the the village development programme undertaken jointly by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) and local NGO Arpana. …
The World Bank (WB) has agreed to fund for implementation of the North East Rural Livelihoods Project (NERLP) in nine districts of four northeastern states including Tripura, officials said here on Thursday. WB has approved a 130 million US dollar credit to empower rural communities in the Northeast and improve …
