BALASORE: People from rural pockets of coastal Balasore district commute daily to the town and work as masons, labourers at construction sites and get back home by evening.

The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has promised funds to Rajasthan in the power sector besides the bank's traditional areas of agriculture and rural development. The State has been told that if it can spend, additional funds to the tune of Rs.500 crore could be made available in the current year itself in the mandated sectors.

LUCKNOW: To give an impetus to developing rural infrastructure, NABARD has sanctioned a loan of Rs 808 crore to the government of Uttar Pradesh for augmenting irrigation facilities to small and mar

The prestigious Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) has spurned Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh’s offer to help restructure and professionalise the 25-year-old crippled CAPAR

Guwahati, June 11: Union minister for rural development Jairam Ramesh today approved in principle connectivity to 270 habitations in Arunachal Pradesh with a cost of approximately Rs 1,918 crore in

What the standing committee report on the land acquisition bill left out.

Former BJP legislator Shankar Oram has shot off a letter to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik seeking inquiry into sub-standard works of a rural road under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY)

New Delhi: In a boost to making rural India free from open defecation, the Centre has increased the grant for construction of a toilet under the Total Sanitation Campaign from Rs 4,600 to Rs 10,000

The regulatory intervention by the RBI has not gone beyond providing a basic legal framework for the functioning of MFIs.