Health

Judgement of the Delhi High Court on mid-day meals dated 08/06/2007

Judgement of the Delhi High Court on the decision of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) awarding contracts
for providing cooked mid-day meals to students of Primary schools in Delhi dated 08/06/2007.

Judgement Date: 
08/06/2007
Tags:
Mid-Day Meal Programme, Child Health, Nutrition, Delhi, Anti-Poverty Programmes, High Court, Municipal Corporation
India

 Employment guarantee scheme not in sync with Mastapur's needs

Hope floated in drought-hit Mastapur village when people heard of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (nrega) in 2006. Residents of this village in Madhya Pradesh's Tikamgarh district thought

Publication Date: 
30/05/2007
Neha Sakhuja, Shachi Chaturvedi
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Conservation, Water Demand, Rural Water Supply, Watershed Development, Rural Roads, Anti-Poverty Programmes, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Unemployment, Panchayats, NGO, India, Madhya Pradesh
India

 Should NABARD regulate micro finance?

The Micro Financial Sector (Development & Regulations) Bill 2007 has been under the scanner of late. The bill proposes to make the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (nabard) the

Publication Date: 
14/05/2007
Sandip Das
Down to Earth
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Rural Development, Finance, Services, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Legislation, National Bank For Agriculture And Rural Development (NABARD), Cooperatives, India, Rural Poverty
India

 Committee asks for professionalism in CAPART

a planning Commission expert committee recommended early in March that an autonomous body under the Union ministry of rural development (mord) be professionalised. The autonomous body

Publication Date: 
29/04/2007
Sandip Das, Supriya Singh
Down to Earth
Tags:
Rural Development, Planning, Finance, Anti-Poverty Programmes, CAPART, India
Governance And Institutions

Adarsh Gaon Yojana - Way towards Gandhi's dream village: Self-sufficient, prosperous and peaceful

Most of the rural development models considered natural resource management as the means for rural transformation. The present paper reveals the impact of one such rural development models named "Adarsh Gaon Yojana" of Government of Maharashtra, which is based on natural resource management and watershed management.

Publication Date: 
01/04/2007
Shahaji Phand, H. P. S. Arya
Journal of Rural Development
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207
Tags:
Agriculture, Water Conservation, Watershed Development, Farmers, Rural Development, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Governance And Institutions, Panchayats, Maharashtra, Ahmadnagar (D), Sustainable Development
India

 NREGA extended

50 more districts in the ambit After months of squabbling among the Union ministry of rural development (MoRD), the Union ministry of finance (MoF) and the Planning Commission, the Centre has

Publication Date: 
14/03/2007
Down to Earth
Tags:
Rural Development, Planning, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Unemployment, India, Rural Poverty
India

 Bring back the social sector, but not interventionist planning

in may 2004, India had a new government at the Centre. Bangalore and Hyderabad, the two boroughs of shining India, saw their chief ministers eat humble pie at the hustings. An India not very often

Publication Date: 
14/02/2007
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Tags:
Development, Rural Development, Economic Development, Finance, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Political Parties, Politics, India
India

 Is social sector revenue or capital expenditure?

THE centre's commitment to targets stipulated by the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2003, threatens to set it on a collision course with states. The matter at hand is funding social

Publication Date: 
14/02/2007
Neha Sakhuja, Sandip
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Development, Child Health, Rural Development, Planning, Finance, Anti-Poverty Programmes, India
India

 Panchayat Raj Half a cheer for democracy

There is a great push to make panchayats the fulcrum of rural development in India. But 16 years after the third tier of government was created, it has not got its due.

Publication Date: 
30/01/2007
Sandip Das
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Rural Development, Political Decentralisation, Finance, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Government Of India (GOI), Panchayats, Gram Sabhas, India, Jharkhand, Statistics, Rural Poverty
Economy

 Design of devolution

For mani shankar aiyar, Union minister of Panchayati Raj, the biggest obstacle with decentralisation is not a lack of political will but not getting the design right. Excerpts from an interview to

Publication Date: 
30/01/2007
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Rural Development, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Panchayats, India

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