Assam makes first legal agarwood export to Gulf, eyes Rs 50,000 crore potentialAssam has struck gold with its groundbreaking legal export of agarwood chips to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, valued at a remarkable Rs 2.35 cr...
13 May, 2026, 09.57 PM IST
Saffron wave deepens erosion of secular normsThe Bharatiya Janata Party has achieved a significant victory in West Bengal, solidifying its influence across eastern India. This win stre...
04 May, 2026, 10.23 PM IST
Bengal polls: Tata exit still shapes Singur, 18 years onSingur's landscape is marked by abandoned factory remnants and damaged farmland. The Tata Motors Nano project's 2008 exit reshaped Bengal p...
25 Apr, 2026, 01.24 PM IST
In Trump era, fearful left-leaning Americans turn to gunsLeft-leaning Americans are increasingly purchasing firearms due to fears of government overreach under the Trump administration. This trend...
18 Apr, 2026, 07.50 AM IST
UNDP's latest report on poverty highlights India's great leap upwardFrom the turn of the millennium, India has been targeting various deprivations. Eight years ago, public policy was tweaked to prioritise an...
28 Oct, 2022, 10.53 PM IST
Officials scan Aadhaar-based list of ration card holders, rural ministry’s data on deprived householdsOfficials said they have begun the process by looking at the Aadhaar-based list of ration card holders and the rural development ministry’s...
19 Nov, 2020, 11.14 AM IST
Socio Economic Caste Census-2021 to define eligibility of rural household for benefits under government schemesA government official told ET that deliberations are on in the rural development ministry to rework 25 existing parameters under SECC, and ...
17 Mar, 2020, 07.31 AM IST
Socio Economic and Caste Census data may be used for finding right beneficiariesThe move is in line with the recommendations of a committee formed to study validity and efficiency of the SECC 2011 data in identifying th...
06 Aug, 2017, 11.31 PM IST
Four crore rural families facing housing deprivation: Govt"As per the provisional figures of SECC, 2011, approximately four crore rural households are face housing deprivation," Ram Kripal Yadav sa...
31 Mar, 2017, 01.00 AM IST
Deprivation parameters to identify beneficiaries of schemesSingh said that there were conditions like persons owning a car or AC or having a family member in a government job, will not be eligible f...
20 Mar, 2017, 04.13 PM IST
Government on the job for cleanup of NREG schemeThe deprivation data of Socio and Economic Caste Census (SECC) is being used to identify the poor households who have not been covered by N...
15 Feb, 2017, 01.28 AM IST
Government finds scientific way to implement social welfare programmes, combat povertyGovernment will adopt the Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC) instead of the poverty line-based method to identify recipients for its pr...
04 Jan, 2017, 01.28 AM IST
Half of rural India still doesn't own agricultural land: SECC 2011The Socio-Economic and Caste Census 2011 (SECC) finds that a majority of rural households depend on manual labour for income.
09 Sep, 2015, 03.03 PM IST
Mission Antyodaya: NDA government begins work on plan to converge social schemes across ministriesMove will involve convergence of various government schemes, sharing of infrastructure and resources and multi-pronged strategies to addres...
20 Jul, 2015, 04.37 AM IST
Landlessness key to rural deprivation, census saysAs per figures, 59% of households with kuchha houses are landless-labourers, followed by 55% of those with no literate adult above 25 years.
13 Jul, 2015, 11.15 AM IST
- Government to bring reforms in its pension scheme for the deprived
The revised scheme which is expected to cost Rs 1,31,626 crore will have an exclusion criteria and the assistance extended to beneficiaries...
04 Mar, 2013, 08.04 PM IST
- Scoring method fails: Government to rank households by deprivation indicators
The government is likely to use a new yardstick to identify and rank beneficiaries in its census of the poor, dumping the 'scoring method' ...
06 Apr, 2011, 02.19 AM IST