The Punjab Cabinet today agreed to carry out amendments in the Panchayati Raj Act to incorporate a number of changes in the panchayat

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh has said that development of state was not possible without all round development of Bundelkhand region. So the government has decided to implement a

Education ministers of seven south Asian countries have decided to meet once every two years to "intensify cooperation and collaboration" in their efforts to achieve "education for all" in the

The Rajasthan government is becoming computer savvy, State chief secretary Inderjeet Khanna has directed the officials to connect all the gram panchayat head-quarters with Internet by December

The Andhra Pradesh Government proposes to hold village-level exhibitions on literacy, agriculture, power and conservation of water to involve people in the over all development of the State,

The Central Government today announced a decision to launch a Rs.275-crore "Jain Kalyan Gram Scheme" to adopt one village in each district in the country for all-round development as part of the

A women's collective, the Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan, has bagged the Chameli Devi Jain Award for 2001 for its pioneering and innovative radio initiative for rural development through the All India

Cases of large-scale of girl babies belonging to poor people of the Lambada community have come to light in Chincholi taluk of Gulbarga district. Cases of such sales have been reported from the

What started as a small step to check blatant exploitation of innocent tribals by traders and middlemen has today grown into a major trade movement in Bastar, envisaging an annual revenue of crores

Gram Sabhas in Madhya Pradesh will meet on any day between March 21 and 26 in every village, making the Gram Swaraj system formally operative in the State. All the seven standing committees of the