The Rural Development Ministry has been allocated Rs 1.88 lakh crore in the Union Budget for 2025-26, around 5.75 per cent more than the allocation in the previous budget. According to the budget ...
The objective of this paper is to explore indicators for sustainable financial schemes in rural areas and to evaluate such schemes in terms of their contribution to rural community development. During ...
India has presented legislation to expand a 20-year-old rural employment scheme by boosting the number of guaranteed workdays ...
Geographical Indications (GIs) serve as a pivotal mechanism in both safeguarding the heritage of local products and promoting rural development. By linking products to their specific place of origin, ...
Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management, Vol. 4, No. 2 (11) (May 2009), pp. 112-133 (22 pages) AbstractThe main focus of this research is to critically evaluate the sustainability ...
CHENNAI, India, Sept 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - On the outskirts of Amaravalli village on India's east coast, Marada Suguna has been hard at work planting mangroves. Hired through India's rural ...
NEW DELHI, Nov 22 (Reuters) - India may increase rural spending by nearly 50% to 2 trillion rupees ($24.51 billion) next fiscal year, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters, as the country ...
New Delhi: Demand for work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, or MGNREGA, has dropped sharply since June, with official data showing that the number of people seeking ...
The agreement aims to develop a GIS-integrated decision-support platform for the Jal Jeevan Mission and Swachh Bharat Mission [SBM], the Jal Shakti ministry said in a statement. The new platform will ...