Rural development works now rely on geotagged verifications
By Karishma Mehrotra Taking off two months ago, the Ministry of Rural Development now has public images of over one lakh assets, with everything from sewage […]
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Harvard, IIT grads among SBI Youth for India fellowship candidates
By Sreeradha D Basu Graduates from some of the world’s most prestigious universities such as Harvard and the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have been […]
Web-based tool offers innovative solutions in support of rural development
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) launched the world’s first web-based tool designed to collect and share agriculture and rural development solutions implemented in […]
Cracking the rural consumption puzzle
By AARATI KRISHNAN The surge in non-farm employment has led to a rural consumption splurge, making listed companies bullish Is rural India languishing in abject misery, […]
Govt’s people-connect drive extended to blocks
BHUBANESWAR: The state government has planned to cover all 314 blocks under the Ama Goan Ama Bikash scheme (our villager our development) before the forthcoming general and […]
Big push to agriculture with gets 51% increase
By Sushil Manav Chandigarh: With an outlay hike of 51.22 per cent in agriculture and allied activities, 20.01 per cent in irrigation and 24.65 per cent in […]
No safe drinking water, public transport: Why urban and not rural should be government’s focus
By Kala S Sridhar In his Budget 2018, finance minister Arun Jaitley focused on much-needed rural development. But given the contributions cities make to overall […]
International meet to boost digital India
HYDERABAD: A two day conference SKILLS-2017 which will chalk out ideas to create awareness about digital literacy in rural India will kick start in the city […]
PM Narendra Modi bats for outcome based approach for rural development
Batting for an outcome-based approach for rural development, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that the country has sufficient resources to deliver benefits to the […]
India Offers to Buy N367bn Pulse Beans from Nigeria
By Olawale Ajimotokan India has approached Nigeria to supply it with $1billion (about N367 billion) worth of Pulse Beans. The Director, Agricultural Business, Processing and […]