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 …
At the sleepy office of the Bundelkhand Vikas Nigam in Jhansi, senior assistant O P Gupta, lone member of the staff apart from a chaprasi and the newly appointed chairman, is clearly unaccustomed to visitors. He recalls the time when the Nigam
Sikkim Government has set up monitoring committees from the State to subdivision levels to protect the rights of the forest dwellers on the jungle resources. Under the system, the state-level monitoring committee under the chairmanship of the chief secretary has been entrusted with the task to lay down norms for …
Amita Verma Sept. 6: Film actor turned politician Raja Bundela will take out a "padyatra" from Chitrakoot in Uttar Pradesh to Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh in November to press for the demand for creation of a separate Bundelkhand state. Mr Bundela, who has been waging a long-drawn battle for Bundelkhand …
MALLARPUR, 4 SEPT: The State Bank of India (SBI) has adopted a tribal village in Birbhum district to improve the livelihood of the residents. This kind of a socio-economic effort would be the first-of-its-kind in Birbhum. The tribal village, Melteldanga under Mayureswar I block area, was selected by the state …
Sanjib Kumar Roy ISLAND PURA: ABDUL KALAM' S VISION FOR ANDAMANSEXTENDING his dream plan of PURA (providing urban amenities in rural areas) to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam said that he visualised Island PURA for the welfare and better employment opportunities of islanders. Dr …
A total of 829 works have been accorded administrative sanction MADURAI: Rural development works worth Rs. 6.83 crore such as laying roads to connect remote villages and constructing public distribution system shops will be taken up this fiscal in the district. A total of 829 works have been accorded administrative …
The NREGS week has worked wonders for Giridih. For the first time, all villages of the district got covered under the rural job scheme. This probably makes Giridih the first district in the state that can boast NREGS projects in all its revenue villages. The NREGS week was observed from …
AMIT AGNIHOTRI Following Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's directive towards convergence of NREGS with other agricultural and rural development schemes to minimise the impact of drought, the rural development ministry is planning innovation in the Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojna (SGSY). "We are contemplating combining NREGS to develop skills in the rural …
This publication, prepared by the United Nations University and the UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development, focuses on one of the themes from the World Water Forum held in Istanbul, Turkey, from 17-18 March 2009: it aims to contribute to the understanding of rural to rural, rural to urban and …
BHUBANESWAR: With the Centre fixing the wage under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) at Rs 100 a day per person, the flagship food security programme will benefit job seekers in the State. While the minimum wage fixed by the State Government is Rs 90, registered job seekers under …
To bridge the huge shortfall of police personnel, the Home Ministry has requested the 13th Finance Commission to scale up resources of state governments with the specific objective of augmenting rural policing. The Home Ministry has said that state governments need to recruit about 5.6 lakh additional police personnel to …
MIRZA : The economic contribution made by the lakhs of poor people working in the backyard poultry units towards running the rural households is crucial. Indispensable part of almost every family, the non-descript local variety both of fowl and duck reared with zero input cost has ensured the nutritional requirement …
Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey Before tinkering with the NREGA in the name of reforms, the government must ensure that the foundations of the scheme are strengthened. No change should be introduced without a rigorous debate that centrally involves its primary constituents. As the Union Ministry of Rural Development attempts …
A CENTRAL team led by Union home secretary G K Pillai recently visited the district government hospital in Senapati, Manipur, to checkout the health facilities available, only to find the operation theatre (OT) locked. Not only did the hospital authorities have to struggle to locate the key when the officials, …
New Delhi: With concern being voiced over implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), the Centre has convened an all-party meeting here on Wednesday to discuss how its flagship programme for rural development could be run more effectively. "We have invited representatives from all the national parties to discuss …
AMIT AGNIHOTRI Aug. 25: AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi's social initiative is already transforming the lives of thousands of rural women in the backward Bundelkhand region in UP even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is planning development projects there. The AICC general secretary's vision of organising the poor to unleash …
Our politics of poverty is characterised by our poverty of politics. Although poverty is the overwhelming fact of our national life, it is hardly the theme of our politics. It is stunning rates of GDP growth that command the attention of Parliament and the media, hardly the accompanying deterioration in …
In a major boost to economic development of the rural areas of Darrang district, the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India has sanctioned an amout of Rs 12.83 crore for implementation of NREGA for the financial year 2009-10. This was stated in a communique of the Director (NREGA), Ministry …
Health, a state of complete physical and mental well-being and not merely the absence of diseases as defined by WHO, is the prerequisite of all-round development inclusive of socio-economic prosperity. Though stress has been laid on ensuring better health delivery system in rural areas but lack of proper sanitation has …
