Rural Development Ministry officials said all states and Union Territories are once again instructed to give top priority to complete all t...

The 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...

Centre today said that it has initiated action to revamp Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY) and modalities are being worked out in this regard.

Tarun Gogoi today directed Deputy Commissioners of those districts where implementation of MNREGA is tardy to speed up the flagship program...

Key changes include making construction of toilets part of the scheme, besides providing for mandatory convergence of water & power supply

The Association has drawn the attention of the Chief Secretary, urging him to take necessary steps immediately.

Jairam Ramesh today praised the JD(U) government in Bihar for its efforts to eradicate the practice of open defecation.

The state government has decided to recruit 10,677 employees on contract and equip 821 of them with Android-based mobile phones.

SC today sought responses from the Centre and the Bihar government on a PIL seeking CBI probe into allegations of gross misuse of public fu...

The minister's decision came a day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced a Rs 1,000 crore special flood relief package to the state.

Bihar govt said it was finding it difficult to implement central schemes like the MNREGA and the Indira Avas Yojana (IAY) for want of centr...

Ramesh said that his ministry has directed all states to upload data of IAY which has provision for uploading data, as well as photographs ...

The monthly pension of Rs 200 given to the elderly is "an insult to the dignity of an individual", Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh...

Recommending removal of poverty line criteria for Old Age Pension scheme, Ramesh has said such conditions have harmed eligibility of some d...

"Rural development is the answer to fight naxalism. It will improve the living standard of the people living in villages," Jairam Ramesh sa...

Indira Awaas Yojana, the Manmohan Singh government’s flagship rural housing scheme, is being recast, and its scope amplified to so as to ai...

Nearly half the houses constructed for the rural poor have been cornered by others in connivance with local politicians, the government has...