KOLKATA, 15 JULY: The initiative taken by the state panchayats and rural development department to form a new board to run the Sishu Siksha Kendras (SSK) and Madhyamik Siksha Kendra (MSK) has run into a rough weather after the Governor, Mr MK Narayanan has raised several questions over the Bill.

Ranchi, July 14: To give fresh impetus to grassroots democracy, the state has decided to gift every gram panchayat a permanent secretariat building, equipped with computers and Internet connectivity.

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States Float Sub-Schemes With Funds From Flagship Programme
Subodh Ghildiyal | TNN

New Delhi: Congress chief Sonia Gandhi has a job at hand to save her imprimatur on the rural job scheme.

The Centre has released a sum of Rs 55.54 crore to the States of Assam, Bihar and Rajasthan under the pilot project of the Centrally-sponsored Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana (PMAGY).

The implementation of the pilot scheme was approved in March this year for integrated development of 1,000 villages in the country, each with more than 50 per cent Scheduled Castes (SC) population.

In what could trigger resentment among the rural population, the Planning Commission is open to the suggestion of the Rural Development Ministry on tolling rural roads to ensure their upkeep.

BHUBANESWAR: The National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) will be implemented in the state soon. This was decided at a highlevel meeting presided over by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik here today. The NRLM aims at addressing poverty and alleviating rural poverty by 2015.

The scheme also targets to cover 50 percent of the rural households by self help groups (SHGs) during the next three years.

With a view to compulsorily enlisting participation of the Panchayati Raj Institutions in implementation of the flagship schemes, the Union Rural Development Ministry has advised the State Governments to seek approval of the labour budget of NREGS for the ongoing fiscal from all the gram sabhas, panchayat samities and zila parishads in their jurisdiction.