The district planning board here has approved Rs 54 crore for the development of Gautam Budh Nagar in the current year.

Sunita Narain profiles the man who never took half steps to development and transformed a drought-hit village into a prosperous one back in the 1980s Anna Hazare The first time I met Anna Hazare was in the mid-1980s. My colleague Anil Agarwal was travelling in search of answers to how India could regenerate lands and address desperate poverty.

Jamshedpur, April 5: For the little-known tribal village of Janumdih, the status of an exotic weekend getaway is close at hand.
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) has shown interest in promoting rural tourism at Janumdih, with a two-member team recently visiting the village in Potka block.

Nabard will collaborate with city-based NGO Kalamandir

KOLKATA, 5 APRIL: The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) has decided to increase the priority lending by Rs 20,000 crore for the state in 2011-12, said Mr PVS Suryakumar, general manager of Nabard.

Speaking at a Press conference held in the city today, Mr Suryakumar said in 2010-2011 financial year the priority lending limit was Rs 29,000 crore.

Central Planning Commission Vice Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia appreciated the use of information technology in the forest department of Madhya Pradesh Government and asked the officials to give presentation in Delhi in this regard.

Ahluwalia along with forest minister Sartaj Singh apprised himself of application of information technology in the command room of forest department.

Catering to its Dalit vote bank, the Bahujan Samaj Party government has sanctioned Rs 1,250 crore for construction of roads in Ambedkar villages that were identified in the party's last three regimes but where work had come to a halt with the fall of the party's governments.

A highly placed official in the PWD told 'The Pioneer' that the government had decided to construct pucca roads in Ambedk

A budget of Rs 21,000 crore has been approved by the three boards of Noida, Greater Noida and Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development authorities at a board meeting held here yesterday.

Mohinder Singh, chairman of three authorities briefing mediamen after the meeting, said, "Rs 4,955 crore has been approved for Noida, Rs 5,780 crore for Greater Noida and Rs 11,055

crore for the Yamuna Expre

New Delhi: A pilot survey finding that 25-30% of the rural population can be automatically excluded from food security entitlements for below poverty line population might help forge a consensus between the government and the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council.

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A COMMON compliment that Pranab Mukherjee's Union Budget for 2011-12 received from the media was its proclaimed