The Rural Development Ministry in India received a budget allocation of Rs 1.88 lakh crore for 2025-26, marking a 5.75% increase from the p...

The Rural Development Ministry aims to sanction 10 lakh houses under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Gramin in January 2025. Targets will be...

SP today unveiled its manifesto titled 'Janta Ka Maang Patra - Humara Adhikar,' pledging to eradicate poverty by 2029 if elected. Key promi...

The decline in inequality and the much modest increase in poverty during the pandemic as observed in various studies is not a finding exclu...

India's adoption of technology to transfer welfare benefits has been a runaway success in poverty reduction. However, the speeding up of th...

As the government dials down pandemic-induced food subsidies, poverty reduction will revert to being driven by growth in incomes in the bot...

The rural development ministry is learnt to have finalised 21 parameters to measure the status of gram panchayats under Mission Antyodaya.

According to NITI Aayog's New India @2022 document, India will be in the top three economies of the world if it continues to grow at 8 per ...

Interestingly, higher the number of households with bank loans for “diversified livelihood“, the better the village would be assessed on th...

Goyal stressed that there is no need to focus only on BPL (Below Poverty Line) or APL (Above Poverty Line) criterion when it comes to provi...

The prime minister will also visit his constituency Varanasi, where he will distribute e-rickshaws to beneficiaries.

Xi Jinping to lift the remaining over 70 million people in the world's second biggest economy out of poverty by 2020, which amounts to a mi...

Levying a wealth tax of 1.5 per cent on super rich could help attain the objective of raising people out of extreme poverty.

This is for the first time Modi attacked the socialist agenda undertaken by the Congress-led UPA for rural welfare.

RGGVY was a flagship scheme of UPA-I that had a goal of completing rural electrification by providing access to all villages.

UPA government’s flagship scheme provides free connections to BPL households but richer section of the village have to bear the actual cost.

Delay in sanctioning money has taken its toll on the Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojna as the government has fallen short of target t...