Bhopal, Sept 24:
Ujjwal Gram Puruskar will be given to Nirmal Gram Panchayats so that villages should become clean and government schemes are implemented there in a better way.

KOLKATA, 20 SEPT: After a charge was levelled against the state government stating that it has failed to utilise Central funds allotted under NREGA, the state panchayats and rural development department has decided to use the meeting called by the Centre to discuss the future policies of panchayats as a platform to counter the allegation.
Congress general secretary Mr Rahul Gandhi and the Union m

The Chief Secretary, Shri Avani Vaish reviewed the implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Gramin Sadak Yojana here today at a meeting at the Mantralaya. The Additional Chief Secretary, Panchayat and Rural Development, Shri R. Parshuram also attended the meeting.

At the meeting, the Chief Secretary Shri Vaish apprised himself of the works ongoing under the scheme.

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Confining FDI in retail to the big cities will do farmers a disservice
Surinder Sud / New Delhi September 21, 2010, 0:40 IST

Are rural areas ill-suited for the organised retail business?

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Most discussions on the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) have focused on one of few things, the leakages in the implementation of the scheme, the inadequate number of jobs created, and some even talk of how NREGA has resulted in food inflation going up in various districts as well as increasing mechanisation due to unavailability of farm labour.

Chandigarh: The Himachal Pradesh government has come out with an Rs 4,668-crore integrated watershed management perspective (IWMP) plan for treatment of 31,12,472 hectare in the state.

Highly placed official sources told FE that

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New Delhi: The Centre is likely to adopt the now-famous Haryana model for recompensing displaced people whose land is acquired for big industrial projects.

Jalpaiguri, Sept.

In Saraiyahat block of Dumka district in Jharkhand, a state administration board announces completion of a dam and pond for Janardan Yadav of Pagwara village under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme at an estimated cost of Rs 190,364. The project — code 3411002011 is mentioned on the board — was approved on March 30 this year and completed on June 30.

THE Centre has approved a proposal for recruitment of 10 lakh technically-qualified personnel for execution of rural development programmes of gram panchayats.

A brainchild of rural development minister C P Joshi, who also holds the reins of the panchayati raj ministry, the move is expected to strengthen panchayati raj institutions, while creating a back-up machinery for various rural devel