Narayan Bareth
June 30: Though Rajasthan has over 9,000 sarpanches, Karauli

K. Balchand

NEW DELHI: The 2009-10 budget could see the integration of agricultural activities and rural development schemes not only because they helped to prevent the global slowdown from hitting the rural economy but also because the two sectors appear more likely to lift the country out of the rut.

Saubhadro Chatterji / New Delhi July 1, 2009, 0:27 IST

The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), which is believed to have earned political benefits for the Congress in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, will be modified to plug the loopholes and make the officials more accountable.

K. Balchand

NEW DELHI: Having already received the Planning Commission

Mihir S Sharma

New Delhi: If the national job guarantee law was the flagship scheme of the first UPA, Congress president Sonia Gandhi has, in her first letter to re-elected Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, asked him to fulfil the party

The Kerala Government is revising the list of below-the-poverty line (BPL) families in the State, which will be published in July, according to the Minister for Local Administration, Mr Paloli Mohammed Kutty.

The state government will soon implement the

MUKESH RANJAN
June 22: In a bid to ensure effective outreach of banking system in rural India and adequately help the Centre properly transfer huge volumes of fund to poor masses under Nrega and other social sector programmes, the government is likely to make provisions in the upcoming Budget for setting up of branches in all un-banked blocks.

174 workers in Jharkhand