The rural women of Uganda are helping the tourism industry by providing food and accommodation to poor tourists. UCOTA, an NGO, assisted by USAID, is improving the skills of 62 women tourist

The first ever report on human development index of Assam state, prepared by the Government of Assam on the basis of feedback from United Nations Development Programme would be shortly published. The

The Ministry of Rural Development will cut funds of the District Development Rural Agencies (DRDAs) who had not lifted even the first installment of funds for projects in their states. Unless the

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh has directed that a well defined strategy should be evolved for time bound implementation of economic development plans in the State. He stressed the need

With most States running into deep fiscal crisis, the Union Finance Ministry announced medium team loans for five crisis ridden states to fund their 'opening deficit'. The total assistance being

The Gidia village, which has been included in the Raghogarh municipality, Madhya Pradesh after been excluded from the Pagara panchayat, shows little sign of development taking place. On one hand no

The World Development Report 2003 (WDR) released by the World Bank has highlighted the role of two social developments in West Bengal which have contributed to the emergence of a sustainable

A special sub-committee of the National Development Council has decided to transfer nine Centrally sponsored schemes(CSS) to the States for implementation during the Tenth Plan period. The meeting

Almost all tribal areas in Himachal Pradesh have been brought under a strengthened Public Distribution system(PDS) to ensure supply of essential commodities to the people living in the remote areas.

The Madhya Pradesh state planning commission has approved fund worth Rs 24.39 crore for various development schemes for different departments. The fund also includes allocation for refurbishing three