Haryana chief minister, Bhupinder Singh Hooda said that the state government has formulated new schemes for urban and rural development under Rajiv Gandhi Urban Development Mission, and Rs 2,500 crore and Rs 5,000 crore would be spent for urban and rural development, respectively.

Hooda was addressing the elected representatives of local bodies and panchayati raj institutions (PRIs) in a semina

The question raises fundamental issues about the MGNREGA

Flagship schemes like the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and the Total Sanitation Campaign are facing implementation bottlenecks in rural development minister C.P.

Rural Development Minister C P Joshi has revised the wages for workers under UPA

A notification expected on January 1 to hike wages of workers under the national job guarantee scheme

- Janumdih hamlet gets first model gram sabha under Centre scheme for rebel-hit areas
Jamshedpur, Jan. 4: Fifty-year-old Gomdi Hansda, a resident of Janumdih hamlet, has only heard about government schemes. But now, he can actually reap the benefits of some.

Janumdih, along with 21 other villages, will be developed into model villages by the East Singhbhum district administration.

JAMMU, Jan 4 : Highlighting the role of various Rural Development Schemes in providing much needed employment to the people, the Minister for Rural Development, Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, Ali Mohammad Sagar has said that these have the potential to change the socio-economic scenario of rural and far-flung areas.

The Minister was speaking at a high level review meeting held to overs

BHUBANESWAR: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik launched

Reform In The Countryside: The agriculture sector and rural economy should be the centrepiece of Budget 2011-12
Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee will soon begin confabulations with industry leaders and sectoral experts on the formulation of Budget 2011-12. Like Manmohan Singh and P Chidambaram in the past, will he deliver an historic budget?

A grassroots revolution of politics that delivers is sweeping the Uttar Pradesh countryside. The newly-elected pradhan of Sarraiya-Mahantpur panchayat in Fazilpur, 29-year-old Rakesh Srivastava, epitomises this trend. He has taken it upon himself to empower the poverty-stricken area.