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 …
Direct cash transfer is a better way to help the poor than rural employment guarantee Arvind Panagariya Economic reforms that helped produce sustained rapid growth during the last two decades have cut the proportion of the rural population living below the poverty line from 46 per cent in 1983 to …
The 11th meeting of the governing body of the State Institute of Rural Development, Assam was held recently. The meeting was presided over by Minister, P&RD; Chandan Brahma. Among others, Principal Secretary of P&RD;, Arun Kumar, senior officers of planning and development, finance, senior bank officials, NGO representatives and SIRD …
BHUBANESWAR: The Swarnajayanti Gram Sworajgar Yojana (SGSY), the massive self-employment programme of the Government, will now be implemented in a mission mode under a restructured scheme called National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM). The NRLM to be launched from the current financial year is aimed at mobilising all the rural BPL …
An expert group of the Rural Development Ministry on the methodology for conducting the BPL census for the 11th Five Year Plan has suggested to the Orissa government that the actual level of BPL population in the state should be revised upwards to 84.47 per cent from the present level …
V Ashok Kumar | INSPIRED by former President A P J Abdul Kalam, a group of college students here has formed an association to uplift villages in the district. Around 1,000 students from 50 colleges across the city are members of Kalam Students Foundation, which will focus on improving the …
After reports of Union Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee having stalled the Bill seeking amendment to the Land Acquisition Act in the Cabinet, Rural Development Minister C P Joshi on Tuesday said that the Bill had been cleared by the Cabinet and it is only a matter of procedure before it …
With Centre's plan to launch National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) by the end of the year, the Ministry of Rural Development has decided to set up 500 Rural Self-employment Training Institutes (RSETI), almost one in each rural district of the country. The Centre has already granted approval for setting up …
In a move that is bound to trigger angry reactions from the states, the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) has decided that the estimation of the Below Poverty Line (BPL) numbers by the government would be considered final for the proposed National Food Security Act (NFSA), thereby nipping in the …
GOACAN convenor Roland Martins has stated that the panchayat is a local self-governing authority and the development of the village is required to be planned by the panchayat as per the wishes of the villagers. He was speaking at the citizens awareness drive
The school in the hamlet of Bagraha in Chitrakoot district has three rooms, but these are built only in name. There is dried mud in place of a floor, the walls are unplastered, and there are no windowpanes. A fan hangs in one room and some electrical fittings were put …
Panchayat and Rural Development Minister, Gopal Bhargav met the Union Rural Development Minister, CP Joshi here today and requested the latter to accord early sanction to the Rs 791 crore pending proposals of nine districts under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana. Bhargav also urged the Union Rural Development Minister …
The Government has spent Rs. 66,832 million for the development of rural villages, Nation Building and Estate Infrastructure Development Minister Rohitha Abeygunawardene told Parliament yesterday. The Minister said President Mahinda Rajapaksa presenting his manifesto 'Mahinda Chinthanaya' has clearly stated that infrastructure facilities should be prioritised for the development of rural …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called for an effective mechanism to oversee various poverty alleviation programmes considering that the government makes a sizable allocation for them every year. Addressing a conference of state ministers of rural development and panchayati raj in the Capital, the Prime Minister said allocations for poverty …
AIZWAL, Sept 8: By generating employment opportunities through infrastructure development projects, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) has helped people in rural areas of Mizoram. In Vairengte, located about 130 km from Aizawl, the State capital, many villagers are being employed in road construction projects. They earn rupees 103 …
Amidst the socio-economic and political upheavals plaguing the State, certain developments taking place in the interior areas have contributed towards employment generation and livelihood enhancement. Tuktuki and Katahguri are two of the villages to name among many in Nagaon district that have witnessed a revolution in fish production in the …
Sept. 8: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will address the state and UT rural development and panchayati raj ministers on Wednesday during a conference of the rural development ministry. The conference has been called to discuss the features of the proposed National Rural Livelihood Mission (NLRM) and the emerging issues in …
NEW DELHI: The Centre will launch a new scheme for integrated development of 1,000 villages, each with more than 50 per cent of Scheduled Caste population, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced on Monday. The Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana would be taken up on a pilot basis. It aimed at …
