Birth Rate is a crude measure of fertility of a population and is a crucial determinant of population growth. It gives the number of live births per thousand population in a given region and year. The Birth Rate at all India level has declined drastically over the last five decades …
New Delhi The Cabinet will discuss the National Food Security Bill, 2011, on Monday, in a bid to introduce the proposed legislation in the current session of Parliament. Food minister K V Thomas on Friday said discussions on the food Bill in the Cabinet which was deferred earlier this week …
The residens of this village are loosing sleep religiously for water. Hundreds of pails and pots line up in front of the taps as night gets deeper and people even fight for water at the dead of the night in Muduvatti village. Muduvatti, with a polulation of 1937, most of …
Bhopal : Proposals to connect villages of Madhya Pradesh with population of 800 to 999 with roads under Pradhanmantri Gram Sadak Yojna will be sent shortly to the Government of India. The Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan has urged the Union Minister for Rural Development , Shri Jairam Ramesh …
Union Ministry wants Delhi of the future to be a vertical city where people are housed in high rises Condoning the illegalities of the past, the Union Urban Development Ministry wants Delhi of the future to be a vertical city where people are housed in high rises with quick access …
Once bitten, twice shy. Fearing repeat of a recent fiasco triggered by its move to permit FDI in retail, the union cabinet on Tuesday deferred a decision on what can be called the present government’s most ambitious social welfare scheme: the Food Security Bill. For, differences continue to persist within …
Use non-posh outlets to serve non-metro and rural customers who reflect rising income levels and unmet demand. Car makers are reaching out to consumers in rural centres as high lending rates slow urban demand. Though overall passenger vehicle sales are down over the first eight months of the current financial …
With the Government deferring a decision on the Food Security Bill as talks have been inconclusive, the Food Minister, Mr K.V. Thomas, today said that the Cabinet is likely to meet this Sunday to discuss the important legislation threadbare. However, the Agriculture Minister, Mr Sharad Pawar, said the views of …
New Delhi The Cabinet is likely to consider the National Food Security Bill which envisages subsidised foodgrain as legal entitlement for two third of the country's population on Tuesday. Once the Cabinet approves the bill, the food ministry will table in parliament during the current season. As per the food …
New Delhi Just two days ahead of a crucial cabinet meeting to clear the UPA-II government’s National Food Security Bill (NFSB), food minister KV Thomas on Sunday said the country’s food subsidy would not go up significantly following implementation mega initiative, which aims at giving legal entitlement to subsidised foodgrains …
State Planning Commission holds consultation meeting in Madurai In the last 10 years, cultivable land in the State has shrunk by a whopping five lakh hectares owing to urbanisation and industrialisation, resulting in agriculture and allied sectors registering 0.69 per cent growth in the first four years of the 11th …
Urbanization has been haphazard in Guwahati which has increased the chances of damage in the event of an earthquake and remote sensing technology will help reduce risks posed by quakes GUWAHATI1: Remote sensing technology will now be used to reduce seismic risks in urban planning in Assam. The government has …
About 49 per cent tribal houses in the State do not have toilets. As many as 24,289 families do not hold ration cards. Hundreds of graduates and post graduates among the tribal communities are job less. A survey conducted by the Kerala Institute of Local Administration in association with local …
China has said it will almost double its definition of the poverty threshold to enable an additional 100 million people to access social subsidies, a move that comes as the government looks to address a fast-widening income gap. The government said this week it would raise the poverty threshold to …
The preparatory work for Census 2011 began around the end of 2008. The first step was to unambiguously establish and finalize geographical boundaries for all administrative entities, viz., town, wards, districts etc. This "Census of India 2011: Provisional Population Totals" is Paper 1 of 2011 by NCT of Delhi (Series …
Urbanization . . a process characterized by more and more people living in the urban areas is one of the most important transformations the world has witnessed in recent decades. India is an integral part of the process. In 2010, India accounted for 11 per cent of the world's urban …
Deepening degradation and scarcity of land and water resources pose a severe challenge to the world's capacity to meet human demands by 2050, U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Director-General Jacques Diouf said on Monday. FAO report In the last 50 years, a significant increase in food production combined with …
Study says natural growth of urban population added largest chunk of 40m people to urban areas & sees rapid urbanisation of villages as challenge Rapid urbanisation of villages and expansion of urban areas pose a more pressing challenge to Indian policymakers and administrators than migration of people from rural areas …
Tamil Nadu, the most urbanised among the large States in India, has witnessed uneven urban growth. The recently released 2011 census data on urban agglomerations shows that, in the last decade, about half of the increase (about 7.4 million) in urban population has mostly occurred in four urban agglomerations: Chennai, …
The Delhi government has opposed certain provisions of the National Food Security Bill draft saying the proposed universalisation of foodgrain entitlements to majority of the population would be very “difficult to implement”. In a letter to Union food minister K.V. Thomas, the Delhi government said corruption was rampant in the …
