The Haryana Rural Development Fund Administration Board has sanctioned Rs 696 crore to execute various development works during the current financial year. Out of this, expenditure to the tune of Rs 415.60 crore had already been incurred so far.

Madhya Pradesh has been selected for World Bank

With a view to disseminate information to create mass awareness and to highlight various schemes and programmes of the Central Government, the Press Information Bureau (PIB) in association with the Darrang district administration will be organising a public information campaign under Bharat Nirman at Darrang district from January 20 to 23, a press release said.

BHUBANESWAR: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today called upon the panchayat representatives to create a clean atmosphere in the villages through the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC).

Fourteen gaon panchayats of the State won the Nirmal Gram Puraskar for the year 2008.

The Third Assam State Finance Commission (2006-11) has recommended a drastic increase in the annual configuration of fund flow to the Panchayati Raj (PRI) and Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) during the financial years 2008-11.

Jalandhar: What makes the state government upbeat is the agriculture sector that is continuously doing well in spite of circumstances such as a drought-like situation in the recent past. In fact, it is because of the revenue generated from the agriculture sector that the wheel of development continues to move though at very slow pace in the state.

Rural Development Minister C P Joshi said on Thursday that government was considering interlinking its rural sanitation programme with NREGA to eradicateopen defecation by 2010. Joshi said interlinking would lead to utilisation of funds available under material and labour components of NREGA and thereby expedite the programme.

The Lok Sabha today passed three bills in 15 minutes without any discussion as opposition members protested vociferously against price rise and carving out Telangana from Andhra Pradesh.

Shimla: Encouraged by the success of the pilot project, the state government has decided to utilise plastic waste for surfacing of roads on a large scale to help find a cost-effective and lasting solution to the problem of non-biodegradable waste disposal.