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 …
Jagraon: In an effort to uplift rural infrastructure and provide basic amenities to rural areas, Manpreet Singh Ayali, chairman of zila parishad, Ludhiana, today handed over the grant of Rs 5.21 lakh to Hans Kalan village sarpanch near here. This grant will be used for construction of toilets, construction of …
Since the Uttar Pradesh government stayed away from the meeting held at Orchha in Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday to discuss development of Bundelkhand through NREGS, the Centre has decided to hold a separate meeting for UP after the by-elections in November. The Congress, at the same time, accused UP of …
Transparency is the newest item on the agenda of many Rajasthan ministers and MPs. C P Joshi, the man who lost the Rajasthan Assembly elections last year by just one vote, to later become the Union minister for rural development, started the trend. He got 52 NGOs led by Mazdoor …
It took over three decades for the CPI-M-led state government to gulp the hard fact that majority of the people living in the rural areas are ignorant of their rights about several schemes of the state rural and panchayat development department. After the state government learnt its lesson following the …
The Lakhimpur district authority has released Rs 31.73 lakh for development of rural roads for Telahi Developmental Block under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) for Assam 2008-09. Rs 10.65 lakh has been sanctioned for the brick soling of the Gohain Tekela PWD road to Majguri under the Telahi …
Jagraon: Jagjit Singh Talwandi, former chairman, Punjab Small Scale Industries, along with Mohan Singh Talwandi, circle president, SAD, Raikot, and JE Jawahar Lal of block samiti, disbursed a grant of Rs 33 lakh for the development of 45 villages here yesterday. The grant was given to sarpanches at Gurdwara Tahliana …
MUMBAI: "There is one India living in the urban areas, which is completely different from the one in rural India. We have to connect the two so that the latter also enjoys the fruits of India's growth,'' said AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi at a rally in Panvel on Thursday. …
The Performance Review Committee of the ministry of rural development took stock of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, and Indira Awas Yojana (IAY) on Thursday. On Friday the PRC will appraise the National Social Assistance Program and Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana along with training programmes of the ministry. …
A total sum of Rs 192.42 lakh has been released for 12 GPs of Dhakuakhana sub-division by the Lakhimpur deputy commissioner under the NREGA Programme. The fund was released through the DRDA for various rural development works by Jayant Narlikar, DC, Lakhimpur. Earlier, Rs 132.35 lakh were released by the …
Lamenting high level of wastage and very low value addition in farm products in the country, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called for rationalisation of tax structure for the food processing industry
Even as the UPA government has already broad-based the types of jobs to be taken under its flagship rural employment scheme under the NREGA, the representatives of regional parties on Tuesday asked for further expansion of its scope and bringing in more transparency in implementing the programme. The leaders of …
Kanika Datta / New Delhi October 6, 2009, 0:27 IST The 2009 Magsaysay Award winner explains why he thinks the NREGA is critical. Deep Joshi retired from the rural development NGO Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN) two years ago, but it took him nearly a month to find time …
Gram Nyayalaya Act comes into force, aimed at creation of 5,000 rural courts across the country, in an effort to reduce pendency of cases in courts. The ambitious project seeks to set up courts at the panchayat-level to dispense speedy justice and has been a part of the wider judicial …
The Renewable Energy for Rural Livelihoods (RERL) project tries to demonstrate the use of renewable sources of energy in reducing poverty through improved quality of life and increased livelihood opportunities in remote, non-electrified villages of India that are not likely to get electricity from the grid. The objectives of the …
The Renewable Energy for Rural Livelihoods (RERL) project tries to demonstrate the use of renewable sources of energy in reducing poverty through improved quality of life and increased livelihood opportunities in remote, non-electrified villages of India that are not likely to get electricity from the grid. The objectives of the …
This report details the investment required to ensure food security in 2050, noting both the impacts of climate change on agricultural production, as well as the mitigation potential of agriculture. Underscoring the uneven distribution of climate change impacts on crop production, the report suggests that countries in the Southern hemisphere …
On your inspiration I studied engineering, but was convinced I was not meant for it. During my stint with Ford Foundation, I worked with a doctor couple from Johns Hopkins University, USA. They were training rural women in Maharashtra as community health workers. I realized that is exactly what I …
The Union Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Ministry and the Rajasthan Government are giving final touches to a mega event to mark the half century of Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) at Nagaur, where on October 2, 1959, Jawarharlal Nehru, as Prime Minister inaugurated the three-tier Panchayati Raj System in the …
