Rural Development

Clay filters promise clean drinking water in villages - Terafil technology to benefit Chakdoha & Chapri in Ghatshila, pilot project to encourage self-employment

Terafil technology will not only ensure clean drinking water in villages but also turn the rural people into entrepreneurs.

Publication Date:

24/12/2008

Source: Telegraph (Ranchi)

Tags:

Water Pollution, Drinking Water, Rural Water Supply, Rural Development, Unemployment, Jharkhand

Poverty

Target 100, state scores 25 in job scheme - Blame put on aversion to work

Bengal could provide each rural household only 25 days of work on an average in the 2007-08 financial year against a target of 100 days, a report prepared by the panchayat and rural development department says.

Officials put the blame for the miserable performance on a slew of factors, from rain and floods to the rural poor

Publication Date:

22/12/2008

Source: Telegraph (Kolkata)

Tags:

Rural Development, Anti-Poverty Programmes, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), West Bengal

Economy

21,000-km road constructed under PMGSY

Bhopal, Dec 17: 4,624 roads spanning 21,338 kilometres length have been constructed so far in Madhya Pradesh under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana. The most striking aspect of construction of these roads is that they have ushered in a new era in eight thousand 50 villages of the state by connecting them with main roads. These roads have been constructed at a cost of Rs 5437 crore.

Publication Date:

18/12/2008

Source: Central Chronicle (Bhopal)

Tags:

Rural Roads, Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, Rural Development, Madhya Pradesh

Economy

Building self-reliant coastal communities

Nagercoil: The one-day orientation programme organised by International Fund for Asian Development recently evoked a very good response.

Publication Date:

08/12/2008

Source: Hindu (Chennai)

Tags:

Development, Natural Disasters, People, Rural Development, Panchayats, Nagercoil

Governance And Institutions

Land, livelihoods & food security

In this article the author reviews NREGA as it is unfolding in Andhra Pradesh. In Andhra Pradesh thirty-eight lakh households have registered from employment covering thirteen districts. Of this about a third are yet to receive their job cards.

Publication Date:

01/12/2008

Author(s): K. S. Gopal

Source: Civil Society Voices

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Tags:

Agriculture, Dryland Farming, Rural Development, Anti-Poverty Programmes, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Governance And Institutions, Public Participation, Panchayats, World Bank, India, Andhra Pradesh, Food Security, Corruption

Agriculture

Report on the state of food insecurity in rural India

This Report is an update of the Rural Food Insecurity Atlas of 2001 released by the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) and the World Food Programme (WFP). Since then, numerous new programmes have been initiated by the central and state governments for achieving food security in the country.

Publication Date:

01/12/2008

Source: M S Swaminathan Research Foundation

Tags:

Food Crops, Food Policy, Nutrition, Drinking Water, Health, Women, Children, Child Health, Rural Development, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), India, Chennai, Food Security, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Agriculture

Habitat And Urbanisation

International migration, remittances and rural development

This paper analyses the root causes of rural outmigration, focusing on its economic and social implications. It takes as its starting point the fact that mobility is inherent in human existence. Livelihoods and sociocultural changes are intimately connected with population movements.

Publication Date:

01/12/2008

Author(s): & et al, Rosemary Vargas-Lundius, Marcela Villarreal, Guillaume Lanly

Source: IFAD

Tags:

Agriculture, Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Health, Migration, Rural Development, Global, Developing Countries, Diseases, Globalisation