Key indicators of household consumer expenditure in India, 2009-10

The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) has released the key indicators of household consumer expenditure in India,  generated from the data collected in its 66th round survey during July 2009 - June 2010.

Publication Date: 
01/07/2011
National Sample Survey Office
Tags:
Consumption Patterns, India, Electricity, Household Energy, Rural Development, Urban Development, Food Prices, Public Distribution System (PDS), Water Pricing, Statistics, Economy
Agriculture

Changes in agrarian relations since Independence

Agriculture continues to be the predominant component of the national economy and a principal means of livelihood for two thirds of country's population living in the rural areas. Hence, it occupies central stage in the Indian economy and the Government of India places high priority on reducing poverty by raising agricultural productivity.

Publication Date: 
01/07/2011
A. B. Bardhan
Think India
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157-164
Tags:
Agriculture, India, Land Acquisition, Farmers, Conflicts, Contract Farming, Special Economic Zones (SEZ), Agricultural Inputs, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Dryland Farming, Rural Development
Agriculture

Farm wages shoot up 43%

Rising Labour Costs Likely To Further Drive Up Prices Of Agri Products
New Delhi:If there is one sector that has been hit hard by rising wages it

Publication Date: 
29/06/2011
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Agriculture, Development, Orissa (Odisha), Uttar Pradesh, Rural Development, Bihar
Economy

Strategies for Assam budget

Ministers handling various departments in Assam submitted individual strategy papers, outlining various innovative and pragmatic schemes, to chief minister Tarun Gogoi this morning.

The strategy papers were prepared in accordance with Gogoi

Publication Date: 
28/06/2011
Telegraph (North East)
Tags:
Budget, Economy, Development, Panchayats, Rural Development, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA)
Economy

Leh first district in state to have five-year plan

Leh has become the first district in the state to have its own five-year perspective plan 2011-16 for all 93 panchayat halqas of the district and Leh town for the implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) as per the wishes and needs of people.

The formulation of the perspective plan is mandatory for the implementing agency under the MGNREGA to provide a

Publication Date: 
27/06/2011
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
Leh (D), Anti-Poverty Programmes, Panchayats, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Ladakh, Rural Development, Irrigation
Economy

Companies Train, Hire in Villages with Help From Govt

Retail, marketing, construction & healthcare see action
Companies faced with a shortage of hands in service-oriented, labourintensive sectors such as retail, marketing, construction and primary healthcare are heading to the rural hinterland to hire workers, with a bit of help from the government.

In a public private participation (PPP) arrangement with the rural development ministry, India

Publication Date: 
27/06/2011
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Economic Development, Rural Development, India, Health Care
Economy

Jobs Of 1.25 cr mandays under MGNREGS

Under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme (MGNREGS), around 1.25 crore mandays employment has been created for over 52 lakh beneficiaries in 54 thousand villages in all districts of Madhya Pradesh. Not only were the jobs provided to the maximum beneficiaries but many important infrastructural development works have also been executed under the scheme.

Publication Date: 
27/06/2011
Central Chronicle (Bhopal)
Tags:
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Panchayats, Infrastructure Development, Rural Development, Canal Irrigation, Rural Roads
Energy

Haryana offers two sites for second nuclear power plant

Even as the fate of the first nuclear plant to be set up in Haryana at Gorakhpur in Fatehabad district is in

Publication Date: 
23/06/2011
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Haryana, Fatehabad (D), Nuclear Power Corporation Of India (NPCIL), Hisar (D), Bhiwani (D), Rural Development, Land Acquisition, Nuclear Power Plants, Nuclear Safety, Japan
Economy

After e-gram, govt to implement e-panchayat project

GANDHINAGAR: After successfully completing the e-gram project of providing basic IT connectivity to all the district, taluka and village panchayats, the Gujarat government is now all set to launch a comprehensive e-panchayat project in order to create a complete database and monitor all the activities taken up in the rural areas.

Publication Date: 
21/06/2011
Times Of India (Ahmedabad)
Tags:
Gujarat, Panchayats, Infant mortality, Rural Development, Rural Electrification, Rural Water Supply, Agriculture, Rural Housing
Poverty

State to get 25 pc MGNREGA fund

Taking note of the failure of the Odisha government in implementing the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), the Center has decided to sanction only 25 per cent of the total funds earmarked for the state in the current fiscal.

Moreover, the six districts in the state where CBI is presently probing about irregularities in MGNREGA will not get any assistance from Cent

Publication Date: 
21/06/2011
Pragtivadi (Bhubaneswar)
Tags:
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Anti-Poverty Programmes, Rural Development, Food Security

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