Rural Development budget slightly up; MGNREGS allocation unchanged at Rs 86,000 croreThe 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...
01 Feb, 2025, 07.41 PM IST
Rural Development Ministry aims to sanction 10 lakh houses under PMAY-G in JanuaryThe Rural Development Ministry aims to sanction 10 lakh houses under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Gramin in January 2025. Targets will be...
01 Jan, 2025, 10.39 PM IST
Samajwadi Party promises to completely eradicate poverty in the next 5 year in its manifestoSP today unveiled its manifesto titled 'Janta Ka Maang Patra - Humara Adhikar,' pledging to eradicate poverty by 2029 if elected. Key promi...
10 Apr, 2024, 04.37 PM IST
What happened to poverty during Covid pandemic in India?The decline in inequality and the much modest increase in poverty during the pandemic as observed in various studies is not a finding exclu...
30 Mar, 2023, 11.49 PM IST
Pulling the poor out of poverty, now fasterIndia's adoption of technology to transfer welfare benefits has been a runaway success in poverty reduction. However, the speeding up of th...
18 Oct, 2022, 11.12 PM IST
India, no longer a poverty posterboyAs the government dials down pandemic-induced food subsidies, poverty reduction will revert to being driven by growth in incomes in the bot...
18 Apr, 2022, 11.22 PM IST
Now, Rs 10,000 in a/c to be measure of rural povertyThe rural development ministry is learnt to have finalised 21 parameters to measure the status of gram panchayats under Mission Antyodaya.
17 Nov, 2017, 11.21 AM IST
Niti Aayog sees poverty, corruption free India by 2022According 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 ...
04 Nov, 2017, 10.10 PM IST
Rs 20k in accounts to be rural poverty barometerInterestingly, higher the number of households with bank loans for “diversified livelihood“, the better the village would be assessed on th...
22 May, 2017, 11.18 AM IST
Government aims to achieve 100% power connectivity: Piyush GoyalGoyal 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...
11 Oct, 2016, 05.40 PM IST
PM Modi launches scheme to provide free LPG connections to poorThe prime minister will also visit his constituency Varanasi, where he will distribute e-rickshaws to beneficiaries.
01 May, 2016, 02.31 PM IST
Xi Jinping pledges to remove poverty in China by 2020Xi 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...
16 Oct, 2015, 05.56 PM IST
Nominal tax on super rich can lift 9 crore out of poverty: ReportLevying a wealth tax of 1.5 per cent on super rich could help attain the objective of raising people out of extreme poverty.
10 Nov, 2014, 05.25 PM IST
Charity for poll wins will not help rural India develop: Narendra ModiThis is for the first time Modi attacked the socialist agenda undertaken by the Congress-led UPA for rural welfare.
17 Aug, 2013, 06.01 PM IST
Electricity provision a key factor in empowering rural householdsRGGVY was a flagship scheme of UPA-I that had a goal of completing rural electrification by providing access to all villages.
29 Nov, 2012, 01.32 PM IST
- Free electricity connections to Assam villagers help save fuel
UPA government’s flagship scheme provides free connections to BPL households but richer section of the village have to bear the actual cost.
23 Mar, 2012, 05.26 AM IST
- Govt's rural electrification scheme in dark
Delay in sanctioning money has taken its toll on the Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojna as the government has fallen short of target t...
13 Jul, 2008, 10.35 AM IST