The Haryana Government has agreed to supply more raw water to Delhi. Haryana will supply 70 cusecs of raw water for the Nanglio water treatment plant. Delhi Chief Minister Sahib Singh Verma
Two innovative education projects, Shiksha Karmi and Lok Jumbish, aimed at improving primary education are suffering. The projects are suffering as the Swedish government has stopped all funding
Madhya Pradesh, with a literacy rate of 28 per cent in women and 44 per cent in general, has won this year's Gold Award under the 'International Innovations Awards Programme' of the Biennial
The Tarun Bharat Sangh was formed in Jaipur in 1975. The members came to Bheekampura in 1985 and surveyed the region for two years. It was then that they decided to undertake watershed development in
Villagers in Rajasthan have revived a dried up river in the region with help of a NGO. Now, their fight is with the state government, which has denied them rights over it
Former President R. Venkataraman will inaugurate a national convention of NGO's which will focus on issues like Panchayati Raj, open market policy, environment and socio-political issues."More than
The corporates and non-Governmental organisations (NGOs) should adopt villages and make full literacy possible, according to Dr. S.K. Somaiya, Chairman, Education Committee, FICCI.Inaugurating a
A school teacher posted at Gwaldam, one of the meeting-points of the Garhwal and Kumaon mountain ranges, claims to have found in traditional customs, means to overcome the growing apathy of the
With the government and the UN agencies sorting out the bureaucratic tangle involved in UN aided projects in India, the ambitious programme for community-based primary educations in India is all set
Five United Nations agencies for the first time have come together to extend $ 20 million aid to initiate a programme for universalisaiton of elementary education . To this effect an agreement was