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Residents team up to save rivulet
Ranchi: Over 350 men and women under the aegis of Pani Panchayat today joined hands to give a fresh lease of life to a rivulet near Kutchery Chowk, about 60km from the state capital under Sadar police station area of Lohardaga district.
- Date:
- 12/03/2010
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- Telegraph (Ranchi)
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Panchayats should start work under NREGS
TIRUCHI: All village panchayats in the district should start the works sanctioned under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme within a week, Collector T. Soundiah has said.
- Date:
- 12/03/2010
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- Hindu (Chennai)
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This army’s working a quiet miracle
Present in every village, anganwadi workers have a standing that is turning them into a reforming force
- Date:
- 08/03/2010
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- Times Of India (New Delhi)
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Violence on project-affected people in Himachal Pradesh
On 14 February, 2010 activists of the "Saal Ghaati Bachao Sangarsh Morcha" were subjected to unprovoked and armed attacks by goondas of the contractors of the Hull I hydropower project of Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh.
- Date:
- Mar 2010
- Source:
- Economic and Political Weekly Vol: 45 Issue: 10 pp: 5
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The bazaar view of development
There is a reason why most interventions in rural India — by the government and companies — struggle. They underestimate how rural communities will respond. To elaborate, the recently concluded panchayat elections in Chhattisgarh saw a new trend. Wannabe sarpanches spent far more than before on campaigning.
- Date:
- 04/03/2010
- Source:
- Economic Times (New Delhi)
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Collector directs public participation in water conservation, plantation
The district Collector, Akash Tripathi, has said that minimum two works based on water conservation and greenery must be started in every village panchayat based on public participation under ‘Aao Apna Madhya Pradesh Banaye’. For this an action plan for every village panchayat should be prepared.
- Date:
- 03/03/2010
- Source:
- Pioneer (New Delhi)
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The BPL census and a possible alternative
This paper explores the possibility of a simple method for the identification of households eligible for social assistance. In exploring alternative approaches for identifying a “social assistance base”, of which the bpl list can be seen as a particular case, this note explores possible uses of simple exclusion and inclusion criteria.
- Date:
- Feb 2010
- Source:
- Economic and Political Weekly Vol: 45 Issue: 9 pp: 54-63
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Sattur to be free from open drainage soon
SATTUR: Sattur is the town that faces no drinking water problem in the entire district, said Minister for Backward Classes, K.K.S.S.R. Ramachandran, here on Thursday.
- Date:
- 26/02/2010
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- Hindu (Chennai)
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Farmers’ protest on Feb 26
Karnataka Prantha Raitha Sangha is holding a protest, against ‘rampant corruption in implementing Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme’, in front of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister Jagadish Shettar’s residence in Bangalore on February 26.
- Date:
- 24/02/2010
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- Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
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Joshi clears NREGS funds for Rajiv kendras
Overruling objections by prominent Central Employment Guarantee Council (CEGC) members Jean Dreze and Aruna Roy, Rural Development Minister C P Joshi on Monday said the government would go ahead and construct Rajiv Gandhi Sewa Kendras from NREGS funds. The CEGC is the apex body monitoring the job scheme.
- Date:
- 23/02/2010
- Source:
- Indian Express (New Delhi)
