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 Congress has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled States of not properly implementing the Centrally-sponsored welfare schemes in their respective areas. Even the flagship programmes of the United Progressive Alliance government such as the Horticulture Mission, the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and the National Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGA) were ridden with …
The success of historically developed adaptation practices among the rural poor depends crucially on the nature of prevailing formal and informal rural institutions. This paper focuses on how rural institutions can help shape and enhance the adaptation practices of the rural poor in relation to climate change-induced risks and how …
This paper analyses the current status of rural renewable energy in China and India, develops and employs an analysis framework to study the environment, channels, instruments and innovative mechanisms of financing rural renewable energy in China and India, and makes a primary comparison.
NREGA is the culmination of a long struggle by mass organizations on the issue of providing a minimum right to work. NREGA is clear on the fact that this right is available to all rural communities. To operationalize this Act, the state of poverty in different parts of the country …
Climate change is often seen as a global problem demanding global solutions. But for poor people hit hard by the impacts, climate change is a not a boardroom abstraction, but day-to-day reality. Faced with local shifts in weather patterns and natural resources, they are forced to find ways of coping …
It's like Diwali for Pramila Bai, an anganwadi worker in Hoshangabad district of Madhya Pradesh. Since Saturday she has been busy whitewashing her single-storey house and doing it up, while also arranging for food and toasting freshly-plucked
Hero Honda has worked out a major expansion strategy for the rural markets and is planning to strengthen retail financing to support the initiative, that could lead to setting up of its own finance arm. Pawan Munjal, MD of Hero Honda, told TOI that rural market would be a special …
Development of villages of the State is imperative for overall progress and prosperity of the State. Saying this at a peasants' rally at Chowkidinghi play ground here today, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said, keeping this in mind, the State Government accorded priority on village development. He also stated that his …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi with some elected representatives of district panchayats at the National Convention of Chairpersons of District and Intermediate Panchayats in New Delhi on Thursday. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday called for devolution of more powers and responsibilities to elected representatives of …
In a bid to woo the electorate, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday promised to increase the upper limit of income for below poverty line families from the present Rs. 11,800 to Rs. 60,000 a year if it is voted to power in the State. The BJP, which released its …
The BJP will package its "good governance' plank with the "great betrayal' to present itself as a "viable alternative' to other parties in Karnataka. The party's manifesto, to be released on Thursday, will be a "viable good governance charter', as opposed to the "populist manifesto' already brought out by the …
On rural development, MPs' hearts may be full but during debate, Lok Sabha is empty SEEMA CHISHTI NEW DELHI, APRIL 23: The Government plugs Bharat Nirman as the Nayi Azadi in TV spots during IPL matches, rides on the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act as its shining showpiece. All political …
State Finance Minister Raghavji presiding over a block level conference under Jalabhishek Abhiyan at village Raipur under Funda Block dedicated an additional room in government high school. The in charge Minister of Bhopal, Raghavji, MP, Kailash Joshi and MLA, Bhaktpal Singh performed Bhoomi Poojan of pond's deepening under Rashtriya Gramin …
Former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan Saturday told governments to invest more in agriculture to avoid future food crises, but warned that current shortages would hurt the poor. Annan said the surging price of basic foods like rice, wheat and corn in some of the world's poorest countries, which …
Inefficient financial management and lack of a perspective plan have taken a huge toll on the West Bengal government's plan for integrated development of six districts in north Bengal. As a result, 44% of the Rs 166.67 crore with the Uttarbanga Unnayan Parshad (UUP), meant for socio-economic development of the …
MokshaY ugAccess is building its business model by leveraging both microfinance and franchising The India story with its high gdp growth is fascinating but it doesn't touch almost 60 per cent of the country's population. Loan waivers and different schemes and programmes targeted towards
The elected representatives of people and civil society leaders appealed to Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Thursday to regularise 27 old villages in the limits of Makli, which had been excluded from Gothabad Scheme due to lack of some official requirements. Pakistan People's Party's MNA Dr Abdul Wahid …
West Bengal has failed to meet targets set for several Central projects commissioned for rural development. The annual report of the Union ministry for rural development debunks claims of the CPI-M led state government that it has undertaken extensive development in rural areas. Projects where the state has failed include: …
The objective of President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his administration is to develop the backward rural areas to the level of the urban areas, said Minister of Highways T.B. Ekanayake at Panduwasnuwara. Four concreted roads costing Rs. 7 million were opened by the Minister T.B. Ekanayake on this occasion. He said …
Sri Lankan government announce that it has launched a project funded by the Asian Development Bank to develop rural access roads and improve the livelihood of the rural masses. ADB funds were provided by the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction. The project to be implemented in the Ratnapura, Badulla and …
