Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Jagan Prasad Tehriya Vs State of Uttar Pradesh dated 23/05/2025. The applicant has alleged large-scale illegal felling of green trees within the Agra district, Uttar Pradesh. The application revealed instances of illegal tree felling at Fatehabad, Sadar, Kiraoli and Agra …
The State Government has set a target to complete at least 500 out of the 823 road projects sanctioned by the Centre under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) on September 12. The projects sanctioned by the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) will provide all-weather connectivity to more than …
A first analysis of the summary results from the National Sample Survey Offi ce's 2011-12 consumer expenditure survey throws up some interesting results. The monthly per capita expenditure shows an accelerated growth across all deciles. However, expenditure inequality has widened in both rural and urban areas. A study of the …
PATNA, 26 AUG: Basic infrastructure development is “very very poor” in north and eastern India, rural development minister Jairam Ramesh said today while suggesting that time had come for revisiting strategy of both the Centre and the states for rural areas. “Right now the big challenge for us is north …
Analysis of the features attributed to grassroots innovation shows them to be common to all innovations whether in rural, industrializing or industrial locations and does not justify splitting innovation into one with the suffix ‘grassroots’ and another without it as done in India’s current innovation policy. Examples and experience from …
While there is a need to lay over 45,000 km of rural roads to provide all-weather connectivity to all the habitations having population of at least 250, the State Government has set an ambitious target to develop at least 9,000 km of roads under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana …
NEW DELHI, 3 AUG: Reflecting the gravity of the situation, the empowered group of ministers (EGoM) on drought will meet here again on Tuesday, 7 August, to discuss the drought situation in the country and suggest concrete measures to provide immediate relief to the affected states. The panel headed by …
Jammu: Expressing concern over poor implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Gramin Sadak Yojna (PMGSY), the Committee on Estimates (EC) of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly today directed the department concerned to take action against the contractors who have failed to complete the projects allotted to them in the stipulated …
Recent decades of globalisation provide a new starting point for the study of south Asia by highlighting critical human issues that force history into the present and generate new productive conversations between history and social science. One fundamental issue is the increasing inequality in wealth and control over human resources, …
Much of the scholarship associated with the “urban turn” in south Asia has focused on the upper middle class or the poor. This study examines social change through the lens of interstitial places and populations. In particular, it focuses on young men who find themselves “in-between” in multiple senses: between …
JAMMU, July 26: Terming effective Panchayats as essential component for rural emancipation, Minister for Medical Education, R.S.Chib, today emphasized the need for stronger coordination between the people, the government and the Panchayat representatives for all round growth and development. Chairing a high level meeting held here to review the status …
Ranchi, July 24: The Saranda villagers’ wish of getting piped water and toilets at their houses may actually get fulfilled. Engineer-in-chief of the state drinking water and sanitation department (DWSD) Shardendu Narayan, who visited two panchayats — Lilor and Makranda — in Saranda forest area under West Singhbhum’s Manoharpur block …
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Rural Roads Development Authority (RRDA) has started work to construct 3,000 kilometer long gravel roads in the state under Mukhyamantri Gram Sadak Yojna. These roads will be built in 12 districts of the state including Morena, Bhind, Sehore, Raisen, Vidisha, Rewa, Hoshangabad, Harda, Ujjain, Mandsaur, Narsinghpur and …
The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO)has set up a Rs 20,000 crore project to reach broadband connectivity to an estimated 2,50,000 villages. The aim of the project is to accelerate the delivery of government services in the villages. The proposal to establish the National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) to provide broadband …
WHO estimates that about 170 000 deaths by suicide occur in India every year, but few epidemiological studies of suicide have been done in the country. The authors aimed to quantify suicide mortality in India in 2010.
Bhopal: All the inaccessible villages of Madhya Pradesh will be linked with all-weather roads by the year 2013. All the general category villages having less than 500 population and tribal villages with less than 250 population will be linked by all-weather roads with main roads under Mukhyamantri Gram Sadak Yojna. …
Bhubaneswar: The National Sample Survey (NSS) set up in 1950 by the Centre to collect socio-economic data employing scientific sampling methods, will start its 69th round from July 1. The survey will continue up to December 31 covering 9, 428 villages and 7, 684 urban blocks in the country. In …
Guwahati, June 11: Union minister for rural development Jairam Ramesh today approved in principle connectivity to 270 habitations in Arunachal Pradesh with a cost of approximately Rs 1,918 crore in 2012-13. He also increased the allocation for an Indira Awas Yojana house from Rs 45,800 to Rs 75,000. Ramesh approved …
Former BJP legislator Shankar Oram has shot off a letter to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik seeking inquiry into sub-standard works of a rural road under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) in Bisra block of Sundargarh district. Oram said the 6.5-km stretch of the under-construction Sarubhal-Erla road has been …
With Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on their side, the Orissa government has sidestepped the concerns expressed by Central intelligence agencies and the Home Ministry to work with gram panchayat heads who were elected unopposed. Panchayat polls in February had seen a jump in the number of candidates winning unopposed …
