Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
This Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (C&AG;) on Government of Odisha relates to matters arising from Performance Audit of selected department, programmes / schemes and Compliance Audit of Government Departments and Autonomous Bodies. This is the second volume of the Report of the C&AG; of India …
In a bid to bring in more accountability and improve fund utilisation, the Ministry of Rural Development is in the process of revising the guidelines of its marquee rural housing scheme, the Indira Awas Yojna. The plan aims to provide houses to the rural poor by helping construction and upgradation …
The government in its Budget has largely maintained its social sector spending at the same level. The allocation to the Ministry of Rural Development that runs flagship schemes like MGNREGS has gone up marginally by 5 per cent from Rs 76,376 crore to Rs 80,194 crore for 2013-14. While the …
Govt asks bankers to pitch in with Rs 1,000 crore for scheme With an eye on wooing voters for the 2014 Assembly elections, Haryana is all set to launch a housing scheme for the poor in its upcoming Budget. The scheme, which will mean an additional outlay of Rs 2,650 …
This paper argues that climate change poses two distinct, if related, sets of challenges for poor rural households: challenges related to the increasing frequency and severity of weather shocks and challenges related to long-term shifts in temperature, rainfall patterns, water availability, and other environmental factors. Within this framework, the paper …
JAIPUR: Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday said that the new land acquisition law would ensure that state governments have little say in land acquisition process. The bill is to be tabled in the parliament which will ensure that the rights of farmers could be protected. Ramesh, who …
Mumbai: Fuelled by a construction boom and a rural employment generation push through NREGA, for the first time in about 25 years, the rate of growth of consumption in rural India has outpaced the urban increase in a two-year period between 2009-10 and 2011-12. In terms of money, people in …
Ahmedabad Gujarat Housing Board (GHB) would launch seven projects offering 6,300 residential units for people under various income groups, a decision which comes close on the heels of opposition Congress announcing a housing scheme for women ahead of the Assembly poll. "A decision to launch seven housing projects - three …
On 15 July, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi hosted a group of professionals working on rural housing in diverse geographies of the country. The agenda for the meeting, which was co-hosted by several partners, was to present a portal built for the rural housing sector (www.ruralhousingnetwork.com) and to …
Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY) is a flagship scheme of the Ministry of Rural Development to provide houses to the poor in the rural areas. The objective of the Indira Awaas Yojana is primarily to help in construction/upgradation of dwelling units of rural BPL householders belonging to members of Scheduled Castes/Scheduled …
Increasing frequency and intensity of earthquakes has renewed the urgency in improving the preparedness and in making the infrastructure earthquake-resistant. Sikkim, a northeastern Indian Himalayan state, was hit by a 6.9 magnitude earthquake of intensity VII on 18 September 2011, which triggered hundreds of boulder falls and landslides, causing extensive …
After scrapping the Mahamaya Awas Yojna and Mahamaya Sarvajan Awas Yojna of the previous BSP government, the UP government has decided to launch a single housing scheme for the rural poor, named Lohia Awas Yojna. Both abolished schemes were launched by former CM Mayawati on the lines of the Centre’s …
An exogenously defined poverty line yields poverty headcounts between any two points in time that are a net outcome of the two-way traffic into and out of poverty. This paper argues that, for the rural Indian context, where housing is too lumpy and illiquid to be used for consumption smoothing, …
Bhopal : Houses are being made available to the poor and needy in the rural areas of Madhya Pradesh under Chief Minister’s Rural Housing Mission. Beneficiaries of the scheme are provided loans for construction of houses through banks. Madhya Pradesh Rural Roads Development Authority Chief Executive Officer Shri Ajay Tirkey …
Bhopal : Houses are being made available to the poor and needy in the rural areas of Madhya Pradesh under Chief Minister’s Rural Housing Mission. Beneficiaries of the scheme are provided loans for construction of houses through banks. Madhya Pradesh Rural Roads Development Authority Chief Executive Officer Shri Ajay Tirkey …
Bikaner: The state housing board is planning to make houses available to the poorer section of society at cheaper rates in remote rural areas. “An action plan is under consideration for the purpose,” Parasram Mordia, chairman of the Rajasthan Housing Board said here on Friday. Mordia said currently the housing …
DIMAPUR: Coinciding with the Mon District Village Development Board (VDB) Conference 2011, Nagaland Chief Minister, Neiphiu Rio, inaugurated the celebration for achievement of cent percent rural housing of Tobu village on December 9 last at Tobu. With the inauguration of cent percent rural housing, Tobu village became the second village …
The Nitish Kumar government has decided to constitute a Bihar Rural Development Society (BRDS) comprising 32 experts drawn from the open market to help guide the implementation of rural development schemes in the state, telling them ‘Be the Change that You Wish to See’. The state government is expecting to …
With Assembly elections round the corner, the Mayawati Government tabled the supplementary budget of Rs 10,879 crore for the fiscal 2011-12 in the State Assembly on Tuesday earmarking over 26 per cent of this budget for Chief Minister’s pet projects, especially, for Dalits and downtrodden sections of the society. Besides, …
JAIPUR: Implementation of the state government's ambitious 'Mukhyamantri Gramin BPL Awas Yojana' which aims to providing shelter to 10 lakh BPL families in rural areas over the next three years was launched across the state on Monday. Selected BPL families were handed over the sanction letters of the first installment …
