Faced with MPs complaints regarding alleged corruption in the implementation of rural job guarantee scheme NREGS, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Thursday faulted elected MPs for their

TOI jury meets to choose between good and good

PM emphasises on development in tune with needs of the local people

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has acknowledged the need for greater flexibility in the implementation of the rural schemes and demand for support and security to make their delivery more effective

Some states have invested in land records but the progress has been slow and uneven

New Delhi Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday stressed the need for integrated development to counter the menace of Naxalism. “The development has to be meaningful, it has to integrated and it should be for the people,” Singh said addressing a national workshop attended by 60 collectors from the Naxal-hit districts.

As with industry bodies elsewhere, those in Tamil Nadu say the central government’s proposed land acquisition bill unduly favours farmers at their expense, a sentiment shared in government policy m

Development and land rights are the new weapons in the government’s war against Naxals.

The ministry of rural development is mulling over changes in the implementation guidelines of the country’s largest rural employment guarantee programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employmen

Bowing to agrarian states like Punjab and Haryana, the Government today introduced in the Lok Sabha an amended version of the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill 2011, deleting f