The Bikaner Development Authority Bill, 2025
<p>The Bikaner Development Authority Bill, 2025, passed by the Rajasthan Assembly, aims to establish a Bikaner Development Authority to regulate development activities in the Bikaner district. The bill
Planning
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Participatory monitoring in tropical forest management: a review of tools, concepts and lessons learned
This book reviews recent experiences in participatory monitoring in tropical forest management and summarizes the concepts and lessons learned. It discusses impacts, challenges, and shortcomings of participatory monitoring and presents a matrix of case studies, methods and tools as a quick reference guide. Finally it provides recommendations for future directions in participatory monitoring.
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Participatory monitoring in tropical forest management: a review of tools, concepts and lessons learned
This book reviews recent experiences in participatory monitoring in tropical forest management and summarizes the concepts and lessons learned. It discusses impacts, challenges, and shortcomings of participatory monitoring and presents a matrix of case studies, methods and tools as a quick reference guide. Finally it provides recommendations for future directions in participatory monitoring.
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Centre fund for rural development mismanaged
the Backward Region Grant Fund
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Best practice Demand-Responsive Transport (DRT) policy
People living in regional cities and towns around the world expect governments to deliver reasonable levels of public transport services in their local area. They understand that a small population base can limit the frequency and span of public transport, but want and deserve an acceptable minimum level of service that offers travel choices. (Oct-Dec 2007)
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India must focus on rainfed farming
<table width="579" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" background="files/images/20070731/px.gif"> <tr><td valign="top"></td> <td colspan="2" valign="top"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">There was a time when it was said that the Indian budget was a gamble on the monsoons.
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Committee asks for professionalism in CAPART
a planning Commission expert committee recommended early in March that an autonomous body under the Union ministry of rural development (mord) be professionalised. The autonomous body
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NREGA extended
50 more districts in the ambit After months of squabbling among the Union ministry of rural development (MoRD), the Union ministry of finance (MoF) and the Planning Commission, the Centre has
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Is social sector revenue or capital expenditure?
THE centre's commitment to targets stipulated by the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2003, threatens to set it on a collision course with states. The matter at hand is funding social
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Jatropha plantation policy has gaping holes
The Planning Commission's approach draft for the 11th Five-Year Plan has raised concerns regarding the environmental and socio-economic impacts of the ongoing jatropha plantations for developing
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Energy draft policy report has several loopholes
The Planning Commission has released a draft report of the expert committee on integrated energy policy