India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is the largest public-works based employment programme in the world. Unanimously enacted by the Indian parliament in 2005, implementation began in February 2006. With an annual budget of six billion US dollars, it now supports some fifty million rural people – larger than the population of Senegal, Mali and Niger combined. This article focuses on the successes, issues and potential of the Act to improve the well being of workers and family farmers.

National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has warned Odisha government that sanction for development projects under Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) will be withdrawn

Land consolidation proceedings, including the exercise for repartition of land, can be revised in a village without granting an opportunity of hearing to the persons likely to be affected if the De

The All-India Debt and Investment Survey, and the Land and Livestock Holding Survey were last conducted in 2003.

In what could considered a scorecard of the UPA government’s policies on rural India over the last 10 years, two key reports on debt and investment as well as land holding patterns will be released by the National Sample Survey Office later this year.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is one of the major multilateral development partners of Sri Lanka with over 46 years of productive partnership.

This Congress manifesto titled 'Your voice, our pledge' released for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections focuses on inclusive growth, agriculture, education and health.

The present edition of the Statistical Abstract of Haryana is the 47th in the series. It contains comprehensive statistics covering all important socio-economic aspects of the State’s economy such as area, population, agriculture, irrigation, forests, animal husbandry, power, industries, labour, roads, transport, health, education, co-operation, public finance, prices and state income etc. It is hoped that this document will serve as a useful reference for statistical requirement of
Planning and Policy making.

The Government today notified rules for corporate social responsibility that has in its ambit a wide range of activities including livelihood enhancement projects and steps for the benefit of armed

Funds given to political parties will not count as corporate social responsibility activity

The much-awaited rules for the new ‘corporate social responsibility’ (CSR) regime were notified on Thursday, under which companies with sizable businesses would need to spend a minimum 2 per cent of net profit for the benefit of the society.

Bihar economic survey 2013-14 presents objective assessment of the inclusive development journey of Bihar over the recent years. The state government has started publishing the annual economic survey since 2006-07. They record the impressive trajectory of the state’s economy, along with other relevant and valuable information.

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