While the Economic Survey is putting the poverty figures at 28 per cent, it will also state that the figures are not comparable with those of the 1993-94 large sample survey of the National Sample

The UN Under Secretary General and UNDP Administrator Mr. Mark Mallock Brown has said that the concept of Knowledge centre and bio villages operated by the M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation in

After a lot of debate on the poverty figures thrown up by the 1998-99 large-sample survey of the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO), the Planning Commission has finally decided to accept the

Poverty reduction in rural areas is a complex and many-sided task.It's something that requires sustained commitment since there are no quick fixes, no easy solutions. And given the right kind of

By 2047, India's Gross Domestic Product will increase nine-fold, but its per capita will rise by only five times to just over $2,000. This was stated in the document, 'Directions, Innovations and

A five-day summit on "micro-financing" concept for developing self-sufficient village institutes in Asia-Pacific region will be held in the city from February 1 to

Kolhiapuri was like any other village in Chhattisgarh faced with acute drought conditions and witnessing migration. The land had dried up and there was no development which coUld generate

The Madhya Pradesh Government has issued a notification enforcing the Madhya Pradesh Gram Nyayalya Adhiniyam and thereby paving the way for the setting up of village courts in the State from

The Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Mr. Digvijay Singh, has appealed to the people of the State to resort to "shramdan"(physical labour) on January 26 to mark the beginning of the Gram Swaraj (Village

Despite improvements in labour market performance in industrialized countries and the growing potential of information technology to create jobs and spur development, the global employmet picture