Large-scale surveys show that while rural women

Govt, In New Policy, Aims To Provide Durable & Disaster-Proof Homes With Help From NGOs

New Delhi: The Centre wants all

16 villages of Raisen parliamentary regin where I got maximum votes during elections would be developed as model villages. These villages will have all those facilities which are found in towns.
These views were expressed by region's MP Sushma Swaraj in a programme organised at Bahmori.

INDIRA Awaas Yojana, the Manmohan Singh government

IN A move that is certain to help the ruling DMK in next assembly polls in Tamil Nadu, the Karunanidhi government has drawn an ambitious plan to rid the state of all huts, or temporary houses, in the rural areas by the year 2016.

CHILDREN of a remote northeast village Dibrual Dehingio Gaon are now studying in nearby English medium schools, 40 people of Padamunda village in Orissa are employed in transportation business in nearby town and habitants of flood-prone regions of Bihar are no longer starving during rainy seasons; thanks to construction of rural roads under country

Two years behind schedule, the common service centre (CSC) project is floundering. There are few success stories and no one tells you where Rs 5,742 crore of public funds are going.

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Uttar Pradesh, a major beneficiary under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), has not only ignored action against erring officials for poor implementation of the flagship scheme but has instead awarded additional works under the scheme in certain cases.

Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh has done laudable work for rural infrastructure development in the state and has fully utilised funds allocated to it. This has been said by chairman of National Agriculture and Rural Development Bank Shri Umesh Chandra Sarangi in a letter to the state government.

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