The PMKSY guidelines have also been circulated to Chief Secretaries of all state governments for their views.

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said that the State Government is complying with all standard norms for maintaining transparency in utilis...

Key changes that could be made to IWMP include conserving/reviving the big reservoirs and reducing the leeway on completion of projects.

The exercise, being carried out on the lines of Gujarat, includes the IWMP, NRLMP and National Watershed Management Project Neeranchal.

Schemes namely MGNREGA, NHM, NBA, PMGSY, AIBP, IWMP, SSA, MDM, RKVY, IAY, NRLM and JNNURM have lower expenditures as compared to budgetary ...

The govt is considering pruning the long-winded names of some key social sector schemes so that beneficiaries can relate to them better.

ArcelorMittal has plans to set up 12 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) steel plant in Jharkhand at an estimated investment of Rs 50,000 crore.

The request was made by SAIL Chairman C S Verma in a recent letter to Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF).

Jairam Ramesh has attacked Narendra Modi again over spending of central funds for water conservation programme in drought-hit areas

Gujarat government today dismissed as "factually incorrect" the claims made by Union Minister Jairam Ramesh that the state had failed to sp...

Ramesh said that under the IWMP, the Centre has, so far, released Rs 702 crore and the unspent balance with the state was Rs 409 crore.

"The Project will improve government watershed operations in 930 micro-watersheds covering 465,000 hectares."

He said during Question Hour in Rajya Sabha that Rs 10,993 crore remained unspent under Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Act and R...

Nearly half of the net sown land in India falls in unirrigated areas with a majority in important agricultural states, shows government dat...