PM Modi inaugurates over Rs 7,200 crore worth development projects in Bihar's Motihari; rail, road schemes in focusPrime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated and laid the foundation stone for development projects worth over Rs 7,217 crore in Motihari, Biha...
18 Jul, 2025, 05.00 PM IST
"Would you like to listen to lies?": Lalu Prasad Yadav mocks PM Modi's upcoming visit to BiharAhead of Narendra Modi's Bihar visit, Lalu Prasad Yadav alleges lies. PM Modi will inaugurate projects worth Rs 7,200 crore in Motihari. Th...
18 Jul, 2025, 10.27 AM IST
Cabinet highlights: Eight big railway projects, additional houses under Awas Yojana, SC/ST reservation and moreThe Union Cabinet, headed by PM Narendra Modi, approved several key projects for railways, housing, and farmer welfare. Eight new railway p...
09 Aug, 2024, 11.01 PM IST
Over 4,100 people arrested for drug, cattle smuggling in Assam in 2021: GovernorHoisting the National Flag on the occasion of the 73rd Republic Day, during which parade contingents raised the 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' slogan...
26 Jan, 2022, 03.19 PM IST
Expert committee to analyse additional households eligible for pucca house under PMAY-ruralNarendra Singh Tomar said in Lok Sabha that an exercise was conducted across the country for identifying such households, who though eligib...
11 Feb, 2020, 07.06 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee lends Bengali touch to Modi government's schemes, renames themWhy should the schemes run in the name of Pradhan Mantri or in the name of leaders or ideologues of the Centre,” is CM Mamata Banerjee's ar...
21 Mar, 2017, 11.37 AM IST
Open defecation, booze-free Assam village aims to go cashlessRangchapara was declared the cleanest village in Assam for 2016-17 by the public health engineering department and was rewarded with a sum ...
26 Feb, 2017, 01.01 PM IST
NBFC stocks rally up to 9% on rural boost, affordable housingIn his speech, Jaitley announced Mission Antyodaya to bring one crore households out of poverty and to make 50,000 gram panchayats poverty ...
01 Feb, 2017, 04.43 PM IST
Nine goodies for rural India in Budget 2017Against a target of 5 lakh farm ponds under MGNREGA, 10 lakh ponds would be completed by March 2017. During 2017-18, another 5 lakh farm po...
01 Feb, 2017, 02.42 PM IST
Government finds scientific way to implement social welfare programmes, combat povertyGovernment will adopt the Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC) instead of the poverty line-based method to identify recipients for its pr...
04 Jan, 2017, 01.28 AM IST
Scheme to construct 1 crore house in 3 years on: GovernmentUnder PMAY-G convergence with MGNREGS, it has been made mandatory in the form of 90-95 days of unskilled labour wages for construction of h...
17 Nov, 2016, 01.30 PM IST
Centre’s flagship rural housing scheme 44% short of targetThe Centre’s flagship rural housing programme for the 12th Five-Year Plan is almost 44 per cent short of its target so far.
16 Dec, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
Rural development ministry to keep digital eye on rural schemes to ensure transparency in the systemThe ministry is planning to rope in an IT company that will geotag each unit house built under the rural housing scheme and upload it on th...
08 Sep, 2014, 03.40 PM IST
Nitin Gadkari's rural development ministry to spend Rs 3.45 lakh crore to build 30 million houses by 2022The goal is to include all rural families that do not have a pucca house under the new scheme that will eventually replace the Indira Awaas...
01 Sep, 2014, 01.33 PM IST
Rural Development Ministry for doubling allocation to villagers for homesA paper on National Gramin Awaas Mission prepared by the ministry said the amount should be Rs 1.5 lakh, instead of the current Rs 70,000.
31 Aug, 2014, 09.22 AM IST
Awaas Yojana set to shed Indira Gandhi’s name, to be called be called National Gramin Awaas MissionThe rural development ministry is looking to turn Indira Awaas Yojana, a scheme, into a "mission" with increased budget.
12 Aug, 2014, 10.09 AM IST
Government to re-launch rural housing scheme; targets building 3.2 crore houses for poorMinistry has floated a discussion paper that proposes to give new identity to Indira Awaas Yojana by launching it as National Gramin Awaas ...
04 Aug, 2014, 12.13 PM IST