France was only 55 per cent urban in the 1940s; so were large parts of Europe. Today, France, Italy and Spain, not to mention Germany and Scandinavia, are only 2-3 per cent rural. This is an indication of their prosperity. Latin America has just driven in to the smart set. Its high speed urbanisation, like a souped-up limo, touched 85 per cent at various stretches.

Present in every village, anganwadi workers have a standing that is turning them into a reforming force

Mahim Pratap Singh

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Government promised investors continuous power

BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh Government has promised a free hand to investors to exploit the grossly under-developed Bundelkhand region.

With an aim to provide better irrigation facilities to the farmers of the State, the Agriculture Department has decided to build 1,00,000 non-concrete check dam and similar number of ponds across the State.

In the parched lands of Bundelkhand, officials of the Government of India have found a success story in e-governance, which they now want to replicate across the country to strengthen the flagship scheme of the UPA Government

There is a reason why most interventions in rural India

A high-level Nigerian delegation of parliamentarians met Union Rural Development Minister CP Joshi and evinced interest in the development initiatives of the Government of India for the rural population.

The 20-member Nigerian team was led by Chairman of House Committee on Millennium Development Goals of that country Adewale Aribisala.

The state government has several plans afoot for rapid development in the state.

Deputy chief minister Raghubar Das announced some while addressing a session on

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