Bhubaneswar: In a letter to chief minister Naveen Patnaik over Rs 1498 crore fund sanctioned for rural roads, Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh on Saturday countered the charge of stat

Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Sunday said solution to internal security threat does not lie merely in weeding out Naxals in security operations.

Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has stated his ministry is ready to share half the cost of introducing eco-friendly toilets in Indian Railways coaches.

Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Thursday called for fast-track courts to hasten the settlement of land rights of tribals.

Rural development ministry, state representatives to review labour budgets next month

Statistics and reality are often vastly different in India and to address this issue Jairam Ramesh, Minister of Rural Development, announced the plan to set up an NGO Forum for independent evaluat

It is ‘misleading’ IMD categorised some districts as normal: Pawar

The Union government on Wednesday announced relief measures for the drought-hit areas, including an increase in the number of assured workdays under the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) to 150 from 100 days and reduction in the interest on crop loans to 7 per cent from 12 per cent during the current fiscal.

Rapped by the Supreme Court for its failure to eliminate manual scavenging 65 years post-Independence, the government introduced in the just-concluded monsoon session of Parliament a new Bill to pr

States will no longer be able to drag their feet on taking timebound remedial actions.

Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has ruled out any significant changes in the land acquisition bill. “There will be no significant changes to the bill.