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 …
BHUBANESWAR: The Government has set a target to construct 230 bridges in 201112 out of which 105 will be taken up under state plan. Replying to the demand discussion of Rural Development Department, Minister Bikram Keshari Arukha said construction of bridges will be accorded priority in the coming fiscal and …
State governments will have to abide by stricter rules to receive money from the centre for the rural employment scheme in the next financial year 2011-12. The centrally sponsored Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA) has been one of the biggest drivers of rural consumption in the country. …
The following draft of certain rules which the Central Government, in consultation with the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, proposes to make in exercise of the powers conferred by the sub-section (1) of section 24 of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (Central Act 42 of …
KOLKATA: The poor aged people, residing in 91 blocks across the districts of West Bengal, could not be brought under the state government's scheme to provide cooked food to them due to various reasons, including lack of initiative from panchayat authorities, Mr Anisur Rahman, state panchayat and rural development minister, …
With political parties across the spectrum asking the government to conduct a socio-economic survey of different communities, the government is considering clubbing the below poverty line (BPL) survey with the caste census.
The Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that Madhya Pradesh has maximum number of pro-poor schemes. The state is spending fifty percent of its budget for poverty alleviation. A provision of Rs. 15 crore has been made for organizing Antyodaya Melas so that the poor families get benefits at …
The Rural Development Ministry has allowed the Central Employment Guarantee Council (CEGC), the apex monitoring agency of the NREGS, to lapse on the completion of its tenure in September last year.
Last month, at the IIT-Bombay techfest, Utkarsh, the winners were local, rural and low-cost technologies: Parvin Kumar and Abhishek Ranjan won Rs 50,000 for designing a Rs 32,000 bio-fuel machine that can produce enough gas to cook three meals a day for a family of six. The judges at the …
To ensure proper use of its Rs. 86,553 crore annual rural spending, an ambitious curriculum to train and educate all those involved in the execution of the programmes concerned is on the anvil. This mass-based decentralised capacity building process, the first of its kind among developing countries, intends to develop …
Five years and Rs 75,000 crore later, the Centre has asked states to start a physical trail of expenses incurred under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS). The move comes after the government found out that less than 5 per cent of the total 68.6 lakh works taken up …
Gangtok, Feb 4: Sikkim has become the only state to bag national award in all three categories for exemplary work done under MG-NREGA during the recent Mahatma Gandhi NREGA Sammelan in New Delhi. The sammelan was held to commemorate the completion of the fifth year of the commencement of this …
LUCKNOW: Union ministry of rural development has released grant-in-aid worth Rs 48.27 crore as part payment of the second instalment of central share of funds for the implementation of centrally sponsored Swarnjayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana. The scheme is spread across 26 districts of the state. The amount of grant will …
It was launched in 2006 to ensure livelihood security for the rural poor. Five years hence, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGS) has more aces up its sleeve: checking distress migration and being the world
Rural Development Ministry In Consultation With CAG To Remove Lacuna From Scheme THE Manmohan Singh government has moved in to restore the role of civil society groups in conducting the social audit of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in an attempt to weed out corruption from various …
