India

 Should NABARD regulate micro finance?

The Micro Financial Sector (Development & Regulations) Bill 2007 has been under the scanner of late. The bill proposes to make the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (nabard) the

Publication Date: 
14/05/2007
Sandip Das
Down to Earth
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Rural Development, Finance, Services, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Legislation, National Bank For Agriculture And Rural Development (NABARD), Cooperatives, India, Rural Poverty
India

 Committee asks for professionalism in CAPART

a planning Commission expert committee recommended early in March that an autonomous body under the Union ministry of rural development (mord) be professionalised. The autonomous body

Publication Date: 
29/04/2007
Sandip Das, Supriya Singh
Down to Earth
Tags:
Rural Development, Planning, Finance, Anti-Poverty Programmes, CAPART, India
Governance And Institutions

Adarsh Gaon Yojana - Way towards Gandhi's dream village: Self-sufficient, prosperous and peaceful

Most of the rural development models considered natural resource management as the means for rural transformation. The present paper reveals the impact of one such rural development models named "Adarsh Gaon Yojana" of Government of Maharashtra, which is based on natural resource management and watershed management.

Publication Date: 
01/04/2007
Shahaji Phand, H. P. S. Arya
Journal of Rural Development
26
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207
Tags:
Agriculture, Water Conservation, Watershed Development, Farmers, Rural Development, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Governance And Institutions, Panchayats, Maharashtra, Ahmadnagar (D), Sustainable Development
Economy

The race begins... again

No small sachets, no video-on-wheels, no wall paintings. Rural 2.0 is not just about selling soaps or colas in flexible sizes at lower prices. It is about creating a market from scratch by first developing it, solving its basic problems, figuring out what it needs and then designing a product or service built around that one need that a company could, probably, service.

Publication Date: 
26/03/2007
Vanita Kohli-Khandekar, Janhavi Abhyankar
Business World (Kolkata)
Tags:
Rural Development, Village Level Planning, Union Carbide, NGO, India, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL)
India

 NREGA extended

50 more districts in the ambit After months of squabbling among the Union ministry of rural development (MoRD), the Union ministry of finance (MoF) and the Planning Commission, the Centre has

Publication Date: 
14/03/2007
Down to Earth
Tags:
Rural Development, Planning, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Unemployment, India, Rural Poverty
Climate Change

Project Surya: Reduction of air pollution and global warming by cooking with renewable sources: a white paper

This document contains the White paper on Project Surya, aiming at reduction of air pollution and global warming by cooking with renewable sources: a controlled and practical experiment in rural India.

Publication Date: 
11/03/2007
V. Ramanathan, K. Balakrishnan
Project Surya
Tags:
Renewable Energy, Solar Energy, Rural Energy, Fossil Fuels, Chulhas (Cookstoves), Rural Development, India, Tamil Nadu, V. Ramanathan, K. Balakrishnan, Project Surya, Climate Change
India

 Bring back the social sector, but not interventionist planning

in may 2004, India had a new government at the Centre. Bangalore and Hyderabad, the two boroughs of shining India, saw their chief ministers eat humble pie at the hustings. An India not very often

Publication Date: 
14/02/2007
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Development, Rural Development, Economic Development, Finance, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Political Parties, Politics, India
India

 Is social sector revenue or capital expenditure?

THE centre's commitment to targets stipulated by the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2003, threatens to set it on a collision course with states. The matter at hand is funding social

Publication Date: 
14/02/2007
Neha Sakhuja, Sandip
Down to Earth
15
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Tags:
Development, Child Health, Rural Development, Planning, Finance, Anti-Poverty Programmes, India
Agriculture

Poverty's rural dimension (Editorial)

Publication Date: 
05/02/2007
Business Line (New Delhi)
Tags:
Rural Development
India

 Panchayat Raj Half a cheer for democracy

There is a great push to make panchayats the fulcrum of rural development in India. But 16 years after the third tier of government was created, it has not got its due.

Publication Date: 
30/01/2007
Sandip Das
Down to Earth
15
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Tags:
Rural Development, Political Decentralisation, Finance, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Government Of India (GOI), Panchayats, Gram Sabhas, India, Jharkhand, Statistics, Rural Poverty

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