Rural Development

An additional 3 crore houses under the PM Awas Yojana will be constructed in rural and urban areas across the country, with necessary allocations being made, announced the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharam.

How RSS is developing an indigenous model of rural development

Sanghnomics: The RSS initially experimented with some pilot projects and gradually realised that to make India’s growth story permanent it is important to have an indigenously developed rural development model

Govt should provide more than 100 days of MGNREGA work to combat rural stress, says former agriculture secretary

T Nanda Kumar argues that the government should go beyond the minimum number of days set out in the statute, and suggests that it can also increase disbursal under PDS, especially in pockets where the need is particularly felt.

International Women's Day 2023 | India's first female Sarpanch with an MBA: 'Rural development is not an urban myth'

Chhavi Rajawat, India's first female Sarpanch with an MBA degree, narrates the story of change in Soda panchayat in Tonk district of Rajasthan.

How India's first female MBA sarpanch Chhavi Rajawat transformed Rajasthan's Soda village

Rural development is not an urban myth, India's first female sarpanch with an MBA degree, Chhavi Rajawat narrates the story of change in Rajasthan's Soda panchayat during her two terms, 2010-15 and 2015-20, thereby paving the way for more women sarpanch to emerge.

Union Budget 2023: Many surprises on rural development front

Allocation for the largest centrally sponsored scheme, the MGNREGS, has been slashed. There has been a substantial increase in the budgetary allocation for the Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana. The budgetary allocation for the Pradhan Mantri Gramin Sadak Yojana has been retained at Rs 19,000 crore.

Rural development department needs funds to support welfare schemes

Funds are needed to clear wage pendency in the rural job guarantee scheme and to catch up with missed targets in rural housing and road projects.

Book excerpt | How SELCO helped to dispel 3 myths around solar energy use by rural communities

Excerpted from ‘Anchoring Change: Seventy-Five Years of Grassroots Interventions That Made a Difference’, edited by Vikram Singh Mehta, Neelima Khetan and Jayapadma R.V., with permission from HarperCollins India.

Finance department plans campaign for deepening financial Inclusion

A key focus area of the campaign is achieving saturation in opening bank accounts and enrolling eligible individuals in insurance and pension schemes

Centre orders release of Rs 35.28 crore under PM Gramin Awas Yojana to Punjab

The directions came after Punjab Rural Development Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal brought to the knowledge of Patil the pending funds under the scheme, an official release issued here said.

Chhattisgarh: Ravindra Choubey given Singh Deo's Panchayat and Rural development ministry

Choubey already holds the charge of Parliamentary Affairs, Agriculture Development and Farmers Welfare and Biodiversity, Animal Husbandry Development, Fisheries and Water Resources departments.

Elevated demand for work, missed rural infra targets: Centre may hike allocation for rural development

A parliamentary standing committee has flagged several overarching issues plaguing implementation of welfare schemes under the department of rural development at a time when income disparity between the haves and have-nots has widened.

Union Budget 2021: Farm credit target up, allocation to central agri schemes down

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has raised the farm credit target for the financial year 2021-22 to Rs 16.5 lakh crore, in an effort to raise the farmer income.

Budget 2019 | Govt will encourage role of women in public life: FM Nirmala Sitharaman

Sitharaman added that the government would expand the women self-help group interest subvention programme to all districts and provide loans of up to Rs 1 lakh.

GST Council-like institutions needed to promote healthcare, rural development: Arun Jaitley

The successful experiment of GST Council, which is a constitutional body for making recommendations to the union and state governments on issues related to goods and service tax, needs to be replicated in other areas.

Govt panel on e-gov services for rural India to submit report in a month

At present, there are over 3 lakh CSCs operating across the country and by August 2019, all gram panchayats are expected to have one unit.

Govt considering revision of minimum wage under MGNREGS

The disparity between the MGNREGS wage and the minimum wage offered by state governments is causing logistical difficulties to authorities as the central government’s employment scheme is a key driver of growth in rural areas.

Budget 2017: Govt demonstrated fiscal prudence in tough situations, says CEA

With tax rate cut to 25 percent for small and medium enterprises with revenue under Rs 50 crore per year, we are ahead of the roadmap, says the CEA. This new tax rate creates a level playing field for all corporates, he adds.

Budget 2017: Mission Antyodaya may be the step in the right direction

The convergence of multiple schemes under a single scheme could enable the government to migrate all these to the digital Aadhar-enabled platform thereby contributing further to the Digital India mission aims.

Govt okays Rs 11,000 cr road projects for Left-wing hit areas

The government has approved an over Rs 11,000-crore project to construct all-weather roads and improve connectivity for security reasons in nearly 40 districts worst hit by the Left-wing extremism and violence.

Cabinet gives nod for MoU with AARDO on rural development

The Memorandum for Understanding (MoU) for the triennium 2015-2017 will be signed under which capacity building programmes for AARDO member countries will be organised every year at various institutions in India.

Food Processing Min wants Nabard to fund cold chain projects

Food Processing Secretary A K Srivastava said that Nabard so far has approved loans worth around Rs 540 crore for food parks and have also disbursed Rs 40-45 crore.

Govt sets up fund to use unclaimed money for senior citizens

Government has set up a welfare fund which will utilise unclaimed money, estimated to be in excess of Rs 9,000 crore, lying in PPF, employees provident fund and small savings schemes to provide healthcare facilities and pension to senior citizens.

Sack officials who do not perform despite complaint: PM Modi

According to sources, in a ministerial-level meeting held at 7 RCR on Wednesday, the Prime Minister said that officials who do not improve their performance despite repeated complaints should be sacked.

OnePlus and RangDe.org Come Together to Harness the `Power Of One`

OnePlus, a fast growing global technology startup, and RangDe.org, India’s first internet-based peer-to-peer micro-lending organization, today ...