The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
New Delhi To take on the discontentment against land acquisition process, rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has cleared a draft bill for public comments. The minister's land acquisition and rehabilitation bill will be up on the ministry website just a fortnight into his term at Krish Bhawan. The Bill proposes …
ROING: According to the North Eastern Regional Institute of Water and Land Management (NERIWLM), six districts of the State have arsenic contamination in their water sources causing concern for the authorities. The six districts are Papum Pare, East Kameng, West Kameng, Lower Subansiri and Lower Dibang Valley and Tirap. In …
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 …
10 lakh houses to be built in the next three years The Rajasthan Government's ambitious housing programme for the rural poor took off on Monday with Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and members of his Council of Ministers giving away the first instalment of grant-in-aid to the beneficiary families simultaneously in …
The census of India’s poor began on June 29 in Tripura, in the Northeast, with a methodology Jairam Ramesh, who was made Union rural development minister in the recent reshuffle, didn’t get a chance to contribute to. It has some improvements over the method followed in the previous census, but …
Amid the furore over misappropriation of funds meant for development, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has proposed bringing all rural development programmes worth about Rs 90,000 crore under the ambit of the government auditor. Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh welcomed the proposition after he met CAG today to discuss …
Meeting CAG to ensure states have comprehensive structure, take exercise seriously. Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has said states would not be allowed to ignore the findings of the social audits notified recently by his ministry on the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS). Speaking to state representatives at …
In order to ensure self help groups better livelihoods opportunities by strengthening them, the National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) would be implemented in ten districts of the state that include - Mandla, Dindori, Balaghat, Shahdol, Anuppur, Sheopur, Dhar Jhabua Badwani and Aalirajpur. The NRLM would be implemented by the State …
NEW DELHI, 18 JULY: Seeking to promote self-employment among women, the government has proposed to bring down the interest rate on bank lending to self help groups (SHGs) at par with that on crop loans to farmers and set up a dedicated national bank for women SHG on the lines …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday gave Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh the green signal for his proposal to integrate in one bill the provisions for land acquisition and rehabilitation and resettlement. After calling on Dr. Singh for the first time since he assumed office, Mr. Ramesh told …
Shillong, July 17: Villagers of Khliehriat, a civil subdivision under Jaintia Hills district, about 100km from here, did not know about the existence of the National Family Benefit Scheme, though the same had been introduced throughout the country by the Centre since August 15, 1995, till they were enligtened about …
The Union Ministry of Rural Development has ordered that the digital photographs of each NREGS work site, complete with its latitude and longitude, should be put on its website in order to ensure transparency. The instructions were issued on Wednesday, the day after Jairam Ramesh took over as the Union …
The Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh will hold consultation with the National Advisory Council (NAC) member N.C. Saxena on Saturday on the Land Acquisition Bill. Though the new minister clearly said that he would go by the NAC recommendation soon after taking charge of the ministry, the issue of …
New Delhi: Jairam Ramesh put Rahul Gandhi and National Advisory Council (NAC) in focus on his first day in the rural development ministry, drafting the Sonia Gandhi-chaired panel in the internal review meetings and pushing the post-padyatra politics by telling the ministry that the land acquisition bill be
New Delhi Doing a volte face on his predecessor's stand, the new rural development minister, Jairam Ramesh, has accepted several crucial recommendations of the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC) on how to compensate people who lose their land for industrial projects. "We have accepted NAC's recommendations. We are working …
Takes decision after a meeting with NAC and Rural Ministry officials The new Union Minister for Rural Development, Jairam Ramesh, on Wednesday set aside the two-bill approach of his predecessor and decided to frame a single integrated Bill on land acquisition, rehabilitation and resettlement. After reviewing various programmes of the …
