Rural Development Ministry In Consultation With CAG To Remove Lacuna From Scheme
THE Manmohan Singh government has moved in to restore the role of civil society groups in conducting the social audit of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in an attempt to weed out corruption from various levels.

The Rural Development Ministry is in consultation with the Comptroller and Au

Just two and half years ago, Kandhamal was India’s shame as a communal violence triggered by the killing of a Hindu seer left 38 people dead, thousands of houses and hundreds of churches burnt and vandalised and several thousand people scurrying to relief camps for safety.

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THE outlook for agriculture in India is changing: price increases are lifting realisations, which, in turn, are being reinvested in productivity enhancements.

Senior Congress leader Vilasrao Deshmukh, who took charge today as the Union rural development minister, said he would look into the controversy over delinking the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), the government

Shimla: The Centre has sanctioned 44 projects worth Rs 356.47 crore under the Integrated Watershed Management Programme in all the districts of Himachal for 2010-11.

The Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Minister Jai Ram Thakur today said 2,37,651 hectares area would be covered under the programme and the amount was to be used over a period of four to seven years.

Thakur said 90 per cent

The new union rural development minister Vilasrao Deshmukh takes charge of the key ministry at a time when the mega Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) 2005 completes mandated five years of implementation within next few weeks.

Deshmukh would lead the rural development ministry which gets the largest annual financial allocation to the tune of more than Rs 50,000 cro

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The Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has constituted a committee of ministers for continuous monitoring and supervision of relief distribution to frost affected farmers in the state.

The committee comprises Minister for Panchayats and Rural Development Gopal Bhargav, Minister for Farmers Welfare and Agriculture Development Dr.

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