Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar has agreed to send secretaries of agriculture and irrigation departments to the state for a review of agricultural schemes in Jharkhand.

During a meeting with chief minister Arjun Munda in Delhi today, Pawar said he was ready to accept Jharkhand

Haryana government will spend Rs 40.98 crore during the current financial year under Ganga Flood Control Commission (GFCC) and a sum of Rs 22.64 crore has been proposed under Nabard schemes to be executed in the state.

This was revealed in a meeting presided over by the irrigation minister Ajay Singh Yadav to discuss the schemes of irrigation department and flood protection schemes to be execut

The State Government had prepared a strategy six months ago under the Food and Civil Supplies department and invited the investors for constructing godowns or warehouses for storing foodgrains. They were called for a meeting with Minister of State for Food and Civil Supplies, Praschandra Jain. More than 300 investors from the State and outside attended the meeting held in Bhopal.

Tirupur: To improve rural credit flow in the district, the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) is all set to open a farmer's club exclusively for medicinal plant growers out of the total 20 farmers' clubs planned for the current fiscal.

As per S Akbar, Chief General Manager, who heads the NABARD 'S Madhya Pradesh Regional Office, NABARD has, to start with, sanctioned a grant assistance of Rs 51,36 lakhs towards the implementation of SRI project in three districts the state viz, Balaghat, Hoshangbad and Katni.

The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development has sanctioned Rs 111.24 crore as loan assistance to the state government for building up of rural infrastructure in various districts of the state.

The projects sanctioned cover rural roads, bridges and minor irrigation projects, according to an official press release.

An instance of how official negligence deprived tribal farmers of irrigation facilities for nine years in Sundargarh district has come to light.

Even though the State Government claimed that the irrigation project in question has been completed and ready for providing irrigation from 2009-10 kharif, the CAG in its latest report has maintained that this is not factually correct.

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Nagaland Power Minister Doshehe Y Sema is posed a number of queries by former Lok Sabha Member of Parliament W Wangyuh Konyak expressing strong doubts over a number of issues related to the mini-hydro project at Tehok.

The Public Works Department of the State Government has constructed 209 bridges and 8 thousand five km long roads in the state. This has been done under the NABARD Project from third phase to 16th phase from the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF).

A WORRIED government has put on fast track the proposed bill to regulate micro-lenders, as it seeks to ensure that over-regulation by states does not kill the sector that is envisaged to play a big role in furthering financial inclusion.

The finance ministry could move a bill in the winter session of Parliament that will make Nabard responsible for regulation of all non-profit microfinance