BHUBANESWAR: Opposition members on Wednesday staged a walkout demanding extension of the CBI probe into large-scale irregularities in the implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment

The World Bank has urged the Poverty Alleviation Fund (PAF) to conduct rigorous planning to qualify for a possible third phase of its support.

The Planning Commission will constitute an expert group in three months to revisit the methodology for estimating poverty amid demand for removal of its Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia for p

The Annual Plan for Rajasthan for 2012-13 was on Wednesday finalised at Rs.33,500 crore at a meeting here between Planning Commission Deputy Chairperson Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot.

“We have agreed on annual Plan size of Rs.33,500 crore for the next fiscal which is well funded by the State and some assistance (Rs 60 crore) from the Centre,” Mr. Ahluwalia told the media.

New Delhi, 20 March: The government today said close to 70 per cent of funds under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) are used for water conservation and land d

Villages see a big drop as number of poor falls from 37% to 30% in 5 yrs

For the UPA Government which kept accusing Mayawati’s BSP of ignoring its flagship programmes in Uttar Pradesh, the latest Economic Survey has some food for thought.

Hitting at UPA’s biggest flagship scheme Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), Agriculture Ministry has criticised the scheme in it’s first ever Agriculture Survey sayin

In every region of the developing world, the percentage of people living on less than $1.25 a day and the number of poor declined between 2005-2008, according to estimates released on Wednesday by

SHILLONG: The state government has today said that the proposed Integrated Basin Development would eradicate poverty by the year 2020 if implemented in the 12th 5-year plan, beside other benefit like creating a multiplier effect in the rural economy.

Expected outcome from this proposed integrated basin also include the entrepreneurial capacity building that would enhance the engagement of the youth and women in productive activities.