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Only guarantee under VB-G RAM G is technology-driven exclusion, emasculation of gram panchayats: CongressCongress criticised the Centre over the VB-G RAM Act, saying it guarantees only technology-driven exclusion, centralisation and emasculatio...
New Delhi asks Bengal to fast track central schemes after Mamata exitThe Centre has flagged West Bengal's failure to implement key central schemes for tribal welfare. Programs like PM-JANMAN and DAJGUA, launc...
Cabinet clears Assam, Tripura development packages, Rs 4,200 cr MERITE scheme & LPG relief; check key highlightsThe Union Cabinet has approved significant proposals, including the MERITE scheme with a Rs 4,200 crore outlay to enhance technical educati...
In BJP's model money is in hands of select rich, while Congress gives to poor: Rahul GandhiAt an event marking two years of the Karnataka Congress government, Rahul Gandhi emphasized the party’s pro-poor model, contrasting it with...
Centre announces major infrastructure boost for Tripura and Odisha under PM-JANMANThe Ministry of Rural Development has approved road and bridge projects in Tripura and Odisha to improve connectivity and boost growth unde...
Budget allocates Rs 74,226 crore for drinking water and sanitationThe Centre has allocated Rs 74,226 crore for the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation in the Union Budget 2025-26, focusing mainly o...
Governments emphasis on improving quality of life in rural areas: Economic SurveyThe Economic Survey 2024-25 highlights the government's efforts to improve rural life quality through infrastructure, clean fuel, micro-fin...
Over 87,000 PVTG households provided power connections under PM JANMAN scheme: GovtThe Indian government's Pradhan Mantri Janjati Adivasi Nyaya Maha Abhiyan has made significant strides in improving the lives of Particular...
Congress workers offer milk to Rahul Gandhi's poster as caste census begins in TelanganaTelangana began its caste census. This was an election promise by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. The survey aims to understand the socio-eco...
'These people stir up Hindu-Muslim tensions': Hemant Soren slams BJP ahead of Jharkhand pollsJharkhand CM Hemant Soren criticises BJP, accusing it of fomenting societal divisions and neglecting marginalised communities. He disputes ...
PM Modi unveils projects worth Rs 83,700 crore from Jharkhand's HazaribagPrime Minister Narendra Modi unveils development projects worth over Rs 83,700 crore in Jharkhand, including the Dharti Aaba Janjatiya Gram...
View: Destabilise the PyramidFocusing on empowering the poor, and treating them as a homogeneous group, enables policymakers to dive deeper into their socioeconomic sta...
Maharashtra govt prepares draft for women's empowerment policyIn a statement on Wednesday, the state minister for women and child development said recognising the importance of equal gender relations, ...
View: Drawing buckets from well-being and its importance for policymakingOur analysis is based on the India Human Development Survey, 2015. It contains a representative all-India panel survey over 2005-12, which ...
Most Indian homes smaller than prison cellsThe majority of India’s population, both rural and urban, lives in homes with space smaller than the minimum floor area per person recommen...
Tata Trusts' Central India Initiative to use technology to help Jharkhand tribalsThe initiative aims to bring prosperity in the region through creating lakhpati farmers, who earn upward of a lakh rupees from agriculture.
- AIKS demands 200 days MNREGS work; debate on Food Bill
Another resolution expressed concerns at the non implementation of the Forest Rights Act in most states in the country and sought remedial ...
UPA flagship NREGS records sharp slide in job generationBetween 2009-10 and 2011-12, the total work generated by this flagship scheme declined from Rs 284 crore persondays to Rs 211 crore persond...
- 31 per cent Muslims live below poverty line: NCAER survey
Nearly one third of Muslims in the nation survive on less than Rs 550 a month, economic think tank NCAER said.
- Baniya, Babu & Borrowing: Household debt is concerning
India Human Development Survey suggests that rural households are far more likely to borrow from moneylenders than urban households— 38% ve...