Habitat And Urbanisation

Benaulim locals threaten to draw own village panchayat

HERALD REPORTER

MARGAO, JAN 22
Benaulim villagers cried foul over the Regional Plan 2021 with the people demanding the government to meet the expenses towards preparing the plan or threatened to draw the own village panchayat taking into account the requirements of the village.

Publication Date: 
23/01/2009
Herald (Panjim)
Tags:
Development, Rural Habitat, Panchayats, Goa
Governance And Institutions

Gram Nyayalayas Act, 2008

Gram Nyayalayas Act, 2008 - An act to provide for the establishment of Gram Nyayalayas at the grass roots level for the purposes of providing access to justice to the citizens at their doorsteps and to ensure that opportunities for securing justice are not denied to any citizens by reason of social, economic or other disabilities and for matters

Publication Date: 
09/01/2009
Ministry of Law and Justice
Tags:
Court, Rural Habitat, India, Government Of India (GOI)
Economy

Reality check of govt schemes exposes chinks!

A reality check of the status of the government schemes as well as problems of the villagers by Indore collector and his administrative paraphernalia on Saturday and Sunday under the Gram Sampark Abhiayaan, has not only brought to the fore the pitiable condition of basic infrastructure - like road, electricity and water in the villages but also chinks in the government schemes aimed at benefiting

Publication Date: 
06/01/2009
Central Chronicle (Bhopal)
Tags:
Rural Habitat, Rural Development, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Madhya Pradesh, Indore (T), Rural Poverty, Infrastructure Development
Habitat And Urbanisation

Vilagers want road fixed

Sujoy Singh Roy
HARINGHATA, Jan. 2: It has been almost 20 years since the Panpur-Bakultala road was last repaired, according to villagers, and its age shows.

Publication Date: 
03/01/2009
Statesman (Kolkata)
Tags:
Development, Rural Habitat, Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, West Bengal
Economy

Chinas rural reform: Crisis and ongoing debate

Despite China

Publication Date: 
27/12/2008
Dale Jiajun Wen
Economic and Political Weekly
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Tags:
Land Use, Agriculture, Food Supply, Trade, WTO, Economy, Rural Habitat, Women, Health Care, Pesticide Use, Private Sector, Education, China, Food Security
Habitat And Urbanisation

NCAER report suggests group housing in villages

The Indian village as we understand it today, will be unrecognisable if the government acts on the recommendations of a report on rural housing by the National Council for Applied Economic Research (NCAER).

Publication Date: 
26/11/2008
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Rural Habitat, Rural Housing
People

Govt to soon introduce TRUPTI Yojana for SHGs

JAIPUR: The State Government has decided to introduce

Publication Date: 
21/11/2008
New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
Tags:
Development, Rural Habitat, People, World Bank
Solid Waste

Special scheme for solid waste management in villages

After receiving a positive response from Gram Panchayats under the Total Sanitation Campaign, Himachal Pradesh has initiated a special scheme for solid waste management to maintain hygienic living condition in villages.

Publication Date: 
04/11/2008
Indian Express (Chandigarh)
Tags:
Rural Habitat, Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (Total Sanitation Campaign), Solid Waste, Waste Disposal, Panchayats, Himachal Pradesh

 Denial of the rural

85 per cent urban population will be a disaster A tendency has been gaining ground in some influential circles lately that India

Publication Date: 
14/09/2008
Down to Earth
Tags:
Habitat And Urbanisation, Urban Habitat, Rural Habitat, Migration, Urbanisation, Traditional Knowledge, Economic Development, Poverty, India, Rural Poverty
Economy

The changing villager

India is truly an amazing place: it is both a graveyard of concepts that flourish happily elsewhere, and a breeding ground for those that survive only in our conditions. Terms such as class, status, nation state, and community have already undergone significant modifications in the Indian setting.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2008
Dipankar Gupta
Seminar
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Tags:
Agriculture, Economy, Rural Habitat, Migration, Landless, Workers, India, Rural Poverty

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