The Centre will bear 75% of the cost required to overhaul the administrative capacity in the 72 districts most affected by Leftwing extremism, or Maoism, to make its flagship rural employment guara

The below poverty line (BPL) census, which is expected to put the issue of poverty in perspective, will be a scientific exercise of counting the poor, the Planning Commission believes.

The Orissa government’s off-and-on encounter on administrative lapses in the Central fund utilisation, implementation of some flagship programmes and strict enforcement of environment laws with reg

Though the methodology for determining the poor would be based on the socio-economic caste census being undertaken by the Rural Development Ministry, the (Suresh) Tendulkar poverty line would remai

New Delhi: Under fire from activists, including NAC’s Aruna Roy and Harsh Mander, for stipulating the poverty line at Rs 32 per capita per day, Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahlu

In the wake of criticism from civil society groups over its Supreme court affidavit setting a spending threshold of Rs 32 as urban poverty line, the Planning Commission is likely to spell out its s

After criticism by Jairam Ramesh and NAC members, I&B Minister Ambika Soni too questions Plan panel’s poverty estimate

Sharad Pawar had mooted the idea last week.
Jairam RameshIn a season of inter-ministerial rifts, another one has surfaced. Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh is opposed to using funds under the government’s flagship National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) to provide cheap agricultural labour to farmers.

Installation of hand pumps in villages will no longer be encouraged by the Centre as borewell water contains substances like arsenic which are a health hazard.

NEW DELHI: The Planning Commission affidavit to the Supreme Court which claimed that a rural poor can manage food, education and health requirements with a mere Rs 25 a day has given fresh ammuniti