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 …
Priyadarshi Siddhanta The government may be keen to ensure food security for the poorer sections of the society, but the below-poverty-line debate continues unabated with consensus on the issue among the policy planners remaining elusive. Adding a new dimension to the issue, Planning Commission member Abhjit Sen has argued that …
Bowing to pressure from the hilly border State of Arunachal Pradesh, the Central Government has awarded a whopping financial package of Rs 300 crore to the State to bridge the existing
Food guarantee programme in next LS session PRO-POOR: Union Home Minister P.Chidambaram addressing an election meeting at Pudukottai in Tuticorin district on Monday. Tuticorin: The ruling coalitions at the Centre and the State were concerned about the well-being of the poor, Union Minister for Home P. Chidambaram said while campaigning …
MPs will head committees which will be set up to monitor various rural development schemes of the Centre, Rural Development Minister C P Joshi said answering supplementaries during Question Hour. "Orders in this regard would be issued soon," Joshi said amid thumping of desks by members. Members had long been …
- 25 labourers yet to get Rs 1000 each for road work, local administration cites legal hurdle SANTOSH K. KIRO Villagers of Getildih at the construction site. Picture by Prashant Mitra Bundu (Ranchi), Aug. 5: A compensation of Rs 10 lakh and the promise of free education may have eased …
Atiq Khan LUCKNOW: In a region notorious for its feudal mindset, where remnants of erstwhile aristocracy still rule the roost, an eight-page weekly, Khabar Lahariya is a ray of hope. It has created awareness among the oppressed and deprived sections of the Chitrakoot and the Banda districts in the Bundelkhand …
BHUBANESWAR: The Panchayati Raj Department has instructed the project directors of District Rural Development Agencies (DRDAs) that the selection of beneficiaries under Indira Awas Yojana (IAY) will be as per the 1997 BPL list till the revised list comes into force. It has come to the notice of the government …
THE ambit of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme has been significantly expanded by allowing under it work done on private land belonging to small and marginal farmers to create assets. Small and marginal farmers are those with landholding of less than two hectares. Together, they constitute 80% of farm …
In a disclosure that can put the States on the back foot, the Outcome Budget of Rural Development Ministry shows that States did not spend a whopping Rs 18,000 crore out of their total allocation of Rs 56,854 crore in the last fiscal. The un-utilisation of almost one third of …
The impact of genetically modified (GM) crops on the poor in developing countries is still the subject of controversy. While previous studies have examined direct productivity effects of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) cotton and other GM crops, little is known about wider socioeconomic outcomes. Use a microeconomic modelling approach and comprehensive …
This report by Jon Padgham identifies and summarizes potential climate change impacts on agriculture in the developing world, examines causes of vulnerability, and suggests where investments are needed to better climate-proof agriculture. It concludes, inter alia, that: diversification of rural livelihoods through agricultural microenterprise development can reduce exposure to climate …
The rural women of Gumla are scripting a story in self-reliance in their backyards. Not very long ago, they were farm labourers who were forced to migrate to bigger cities in search of work when acres of land in the rain-dependent rice belt remained barren for nearly six months every …
Did anyone check if they want such love? organizing agricultural markets is an exercise in managing contradictions. There is the need to ensure farmers earn from their efforts, both for reasons of social justice and the country
District Collector M. Vallalar inspecting NREGS work-site at N. Panchampatti Panchayat of Athoor Block for improving Pallakulam East path. National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme - (NREGS - TN): NREGA was launched on second February 2006 by Hon
The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) may have returned to power on the might of its flagship programmes in its last term, but one of its major programmes, the Bharat Nirman, is caught in delays. Refusing to own the whole responsibility, the Centre has also held the states responsible. Highly-placed official …
If Implemented, It Will Be First To Transcend State Borders Subodh Ghildiyal | TNN New Delhi: Centre is mulling an autonomous authority to channelise funds into Bundelkhand region across UP and MP, in a first-of-its-kind move which treats the historical region above state boundaries. The move comes as a heavyweight …
