UP Budget: State govt makes Rs 7,000 crore provision for PMAY GraminA provision of Rs 5,548 crore has been made under Rashtriya Gramin Rojgar Guarantee Yojana to create 35 crore man days employment.
22 Feb, 2021, 05.55 PM IST
Budget 2020: MGNREGA funds down by 13%, marginal dip in other rural development schemesUnion Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced an allocation of Rs 61,500 crore for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guara...
31 Dec, 2020, 04.43 PM IST
Ensure last-mile delivery of schemes, centre tells statesAmarjeet Sinha, secretary (rural development), has written to state chief secretaries that continuous follow-ups should be done to ensure t...
24 Oct, 2018, 07.47 AM IST
LPG penetration in Northeast to cross 80 per cent by March 2019"We hope to touch the figure of 80 per cent in the LPG penetration in Northeast by the end of 2018-19 fiscal. Initially, we had planned to ...
16 Oct, 2018, 02.03 PM IST
Saubhagya scheme drags down government’s Extended Gram Swaraj MissionOnly one-third has been completed with 1.14 cr households electrified out of the total 3.5 cr houses.
17 Aug, 2018, 03.02 PM IST
BJP 'toying' with Gujarat model to reach UP women votersBJP in UP is all set to touch yet another emotional chord of women folk by providing toys to their children.
18 Jul, 2018, 02.26 PM IST
PM’s Independence Day speech to have rural pitchThe ministry of rural development has set a target of building 6 million rural houses by August 15, as per an internal presentation made by...
03 Jul, 2018, 08.37 AM IST
PM Modi vows 'important' measures to take growth to double digitsObserving that the Indian economy has grown at a healthy rate of 7.7% in the Q4 of FY18, Modi said the challenge now is to take this growth...
17 Jun, 2018, 03.54 PM IST
Eyeing 2019 Lok Sabha polls, PMO advances completion dates for rural schemesThe latest such scheme is the Swachh Bharat (Grameen), aimed at turning rural India open defecation-free (ODF), which had a deadline of Oct...
24 May, 2018, 10.23 AM IST
Quarterly premium likely for flagship insurance schemeThis comes in the wake of the finance ministry directing the state-run banks and public sector insurers to attain full renewal in accident ...
23 May, 2018, 08.06 AM IST
21-day Gram Swaraj Abhiyan covered 16,850 villages: Amit ShahReferring to the Gram Swaraj Abhiyan, Shah said for the first time the poor in the villages saw the government reaching their doorstep.
23 May, 2018, 07.55 AM IST
Haryana to set up Customer Hiring Centres to check stubble burningHaryana Chief Secretary said that the Central Government had approved a package of Rs 1,100 crore for management of crop residue for Haryan...
17 May, 2018, 06.29 PM IST
Ahead of polls, government gets into mission mode on rural uplift“Our focus is more on backward districts. We are working on a mission mode to achieve our targets by the end of this year,” a senior govt o...
03 May, 2018, 06.22 AM IST
BJP MPs to observe fast to protest impasse in Parliament: PM ModiThe prime minister said at a BJP parliamentary party meeting that the ruling party was doing an inclusive politics while the opposition was...
07 Apr, 2018, 07.39 AM IST
BJP, SP, BSP plan to celebrate Ambedkar Jayanti on big scaleBJP has planned a 22-day celebration from April 14, ‘Gram Swaraj Abhiyan’ to propagate Ambedkar’s message of village development, welfare o...
05 Apr, 2018, 07.34 AM IST
Sushma Swaraj hails performance of PM Modi's government in ThailandAddressing the Indian diaspora in Thailand's capital, Swaraj also urged them to turn their focus on their motherland and pay off their 'maa...
27 Jun, 2015, 11.31 PM IST
Contribute towards India's transformation: Sushma Swaraj to Indian diasporaSwaraj said the government was taking a slew of steps to ensure that investing and doing business in India for them becomes simpler and eas...
07 Jan, 2015, 05.29 PM IST