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 …
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said he wants to focus not only on smart cities but also smart villages and create 50 such in 2016. Maharashtra has developed its first smart village with the help of Microsoft in a place called Arisal, which will act as a model village to …
As climate change threatens India’s food security, adaptation in the agriculture sector is becoming increasingly important. However, for too long, adaptation has been characterized by individual efforts and by small, time-bound pilot projects. Although these projects often have a strong grassroots focus, their capacity to benefit larger populations and to …
Analysing the problem-ridden process of implementing the Forest Rights Act 2006 in Odisha, this paper points out that it has focused more on providing land rights to individual claimants, neglecting community forest rights, the rights in protected areas, and other such provisions. Even so, the number of titles granted to …
RANCHI: The Khunti district in the past has been feared for Red terror but there is a success story there too in which the conservation of biodiversity was done by roping the village community. This not only provided various sources of livelihood but also stopped migration which was a major …
A bottom-up view of the health conditions and services in six states – three performing and three not-so-well performing ones – was arrived at through a study by a multidisciplinary team with varied experiences in health research. This paper presents the results of a Public Report on Health that was …
Lok shikshan kendras are being set up in every Haryana village with a population of 5,000 each under the Saakshar Bharat Mission, a Centrally sponsored scheme. Samir Pal Saro, Director General, School Education, Haryana, said these kendras would be equipped with a library and one would be able to get …
A study was carried out in village Mohamadabad, Nalgonda district, Andhra Pradesh to demonstrate the potential of high-resolution remote sensing data in generating soil resource database at village level that would facilitate natural resource developmental planning. For this study, detail soil resource database was generated by interpreting IRS Resourcesat-1 LISS-IV …
The country’s main planning body will overhaul of the system of village panchayat in the next Five-Year Plan period to improve its functioning and check siphoning of funds meant for social sector programmes. Over 250,000 panchayats or village councils in the country collectively handle about . 90,000 crore in social …
THE Union ministry of panchayati raj has suggested amendments to streamline local governance in the tribal areas of north-eastern states. The draft amendments to existing laws governing local bodies in the Sixth Schedule areas would help fight insurgency prevailing in the region and effectively implement Central government programmes, such as …
With the state government gearing up to draft the Master Plan-2025 for rural areas, village panchayats may soon lose their freedom to allocate land for hospitals or schools as per their wishes. The urban development and housing (UDH) department has selected 100 villages, with a minimum population of 10,000, across …
Pune The Green DP or the Balewadi-Baner plan is all set to be passed this year-end with the town planning department having submitted the report in August. Now that the Assembly elections are over, the state government is all set to clear the DP, paving way for the development plan …
The Jeypore tract of Orissa, India is famous for the genetic diversity of Asian cultivated rice and has been considered the center of origin of aus ecotype. The landraces or traditional varieties growing here are thought to harbor dominant genes for biotic and abiotic stresses, aroma and palatability and hold …
The Centre is set to roll out the Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana this year where the government would adopt 1,000 villages where the population of Scheduled Castes is more than 50 per cent and develop them as model villages. In a statement given in the Rajya Sabha, minister of …
Nuvem gram sabha meeting convened to discuss and finalise the Regional Plan ended in a row on Sunday. While acting Sarpanch Menino Mascarenhas maintained that the plan formulated by the ward members have been approved at today
Though Masti hobli has been allotted funds amounting to several crores under the Suvarna Grama Yojane, failure on the part of Zilla Panchyat officials has affected developmental works in the region, said Minister for Housing and Musrai S N Krishnaiah Setty here on Sunday. He was speaking at a programme …
Goa Bachao Abhiyan (GBA) is holding a workshop on village planning model for the State of Goa as per 73rd and 74th Amendment at Nachinola panchayat hall beginning May 26. An expert team from Maithri, Kerala which has experience in conducting this exercise will be the resource persons, according to …
Gram Sabha members of Nuvem village almost came to blows on the controversial Regional Plan as a consensus eluded the villagers on the village plan. While some villagers blamed the village level committee for preparing a fault plan and called for its scrapping, the Committee called for intermediation from government …
The National Rural Health Mission provides a large canvas and platform for health action, but Shyam Ashtekar (EPW, 13 September 2008) misses many issues and does not make his critique from the right perspective. During the short period of its existence there is ample evidence to show that the mission …
A small village called Thangammalpuram, in Vilathikulam Block, Tutucorin District received a national award recently from the President of India, Pratibha Patil, for attaining full sanitation coverage in households, schools, Angawadis, etc., and for outstanding contribution in the promotion of rural sanitation for the year 2008. The award was received …
