Shillong, Nov.

Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has proposed social audits for the centre’s big-ticket welfare programmes running under different ministries, on the lines of the scrutiny that he recently

RATANPUR (Murshidabad), 17 NOV: Villagers here have embarked on a collective effort for constructing a clay road which would serve as a short-cut and curtail around 30 km road distance to reach the

SHILLONG: Implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), a nationwide plan in the country to provide good all-weather road connectivity to unconnected villages, has been helping in

The government is reaching out to civil society to avoid being caught on the wrong foot while identifying the poor.

New Delhi The rural development ministry has asked for a special audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General of the R40,000-crore annual budget of the National Rural Employment Programme.

GUWAHATI: In order to boost farm output in Assam, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi inaugurated the Chief Minister’s special agricultural programme — Mission Double Cropping (MDC) — at a function organized at the auditorium of Dimoria Development Block at Sonapur on Thursday.