Government to focus on building infrastructure, rural development: Jaitley
The Finance Minister said that India is having the largest infrastructure creating programme in the world which include constructing 10,000 kms of road every year […]
Rural Development
India to miss ODF 2019 target due to fund shortage: Panel
The country will miss its target of becoming open defecation free by 2019 due to “insufficient allocation of funds” under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s much […]
Deprivation parameters to identify beneficiaries of schemes
The government has decided to use “deprivation parameters” parameters to identify the beneficiaries in several of its welfare schemes for the people in the rural […]
Rural development ministry removes 87 lakh job cards from MNREGA list to check ‘misuse’ of funds
New Delhi : In its bid to check the “misuse” of funds under MNREGA, the Rural Development Ministry has removed as many as 87 lakh […]
SRLM signs MoUs with 3 agencies for employing youth
The MoUs were signed for Himayat Scheme under the aegis of Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY)), Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India. […]
Develop rural India first: Dalai Lama
Bhopal: Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Sunday called for shifting focus to development of villages, saying “India will transform only through the rural transformation.” […]
Government plans to give Ajeevika a national face
Government plans to multiply the numbers of the Ajeevika stores which are already launched in Madhya Pradesh. These stores are aimed at providing a commercial […]
Bihar to become open defecation-free state by 2019: Minister
Patna, Mar 16: The Bihar government has set an ambitious target to make the state open defecation-free by 2019, a minister said today. The state government […]
Need to focus on India’s rural roads: World Bank experts
Much of India’s existing rural road network has suffered serious damage from increasingly severe and prolonged floods, sudden cloudbursts, high rainfalls, landslides, and other climatic […]
Odisha Media Award to be conferred on Feb 2
Bhubaneswar : Odisha Media Award (OMA) is an attempt by a group of journalists and development activists committed to the people of Odisha. The primary […]