The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) has been urged to come out with suggestions to exploit fully the rural credit potential of all the 18 districts of West Bengal.
The government is likely to allow the Rural Development Ministry to go for an additional loan for its major scheme
In order to boost up economic development in Jammu & Kashmir National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has endorsed 258 developmental projects during the last three years. The
Rs 1,800 crore groundwater programme a non-starter A Rs 1,800 crore national programme for artificial recharge of groundwater through dug-wells was announced by finance minister P Chidambaram, in February 2007. It was to provide proper irrigation facilities to millions of farmers. But thanks to the delays on part of the state governments, the scheme is yet to take off. With about
The Tamil Nadu regional office of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) has allocated Rs 538 crore for the state and Rs 11 crore for the Union territory of Pondicherry for
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) and National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) have joined hands to set up a Rs 2000 crore comprehensive animal husbandry project in the
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) has sanctioned Rs 133 crore to the Karnataka government for undertaking various rural infrastructure development projects in the state.
With Rajasthan facing a serious threat of water scarcity, the forest department has taken up two projects to protect birds and wildlife from drought.
Prime minister Manmohan Singh has asked the Union finance ministry to direct the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) to create a separate financing window to "bridge the
The National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development (Nabard) will conduct a study on ‘suicides’ by farmers in Punjab to find out the ‘real cause’ behind the extreme
With an aim to bring about a green revolution in the country
As a step towards strengthening the rural economy by empowering women, NABARD is soon launching an innovative,
India needs to concentrate on various means to improve the watershed areas of villages in order to fight the growing water crisis at various levels. This was stated by Switzerland ambassador, Philippe
Solar-powered irrigation systems (SPIS) offer significant opportunities to facilitate irrigation access in an environmentally-sustainable manner. In India, with a substantial government support in form
Having allocated Rs 100 crore through Nabard for connecting 10,000 telecentres across the country, the Government today indicated that it would find "ways and means" to meet further fund requirement
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, or Nabard, now aims to cover 3 crores rural families by linking 2 million self-help groups, or SHGs. For the current year (2005-06), a target
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It has been launched on pilot basis to benefit farmers in Villupuram district A mobile-enabled kisan card system to help the agricultural community engage in cashless transactions, especially with their input providers, was launched here on Sunday to benefit farmers in Villupuram district of Tamil Nadu by Pallavan Grama Bank.
Centre will launch pilot project in State soon: K.V. Thomas Union Minister of State for Food and Consumer Affairs K.V. Thomas said here on Saturday that the Centre would soon launch the pilot project of distributing 5-kg packets of rice to consumers in Kerala through the Public Distribution System as part of supplying quality rice and checking irregularities. This would replace the existing practice of transporting grains in 50-kg bags.
