-The Hindu Business Line Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) is the new buzzword among development professionals and NGOs — both public and private! Everyone wants to mobilise the community and establish FPOs. Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) is the new buzzword among development professionals and NGOs — both public and private! Everyone wants to mobilise the community and establish FPOs. FPOs present the power of aggregation, farmers’ come together, form an organisation, which collectively buys...
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Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh get lion’s share of roads under PMGSY -Radheshyam Jadhav
-The Hindu Business Line Rural ministry data shows 7,21,362 km roads completed under PMGSY, as on December 1, 2022 Out of 2,20,570 km of roads constructed under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) scheme in the last six years (including the current year), 1,54,120 km, or 70 per cent, has come up in 10 States, with Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh getting the lion’s share. A total of 7,98,739 km of road...
More »5-fold rise in Jharkhand rural beneficiaries -Animesh Bisoee
-The Telegraph A total of 16,71,724 rural families were provided livelihood by connecting them with Sakhi Mandals during the Covid pandemic between 2020 and 2021 Jamshedpur: There has been a five-fold increase in the number of rural families connected to livelihood projects of the Jharkhand government in the last three years of the Hemant Soren-led JMM-Congress-RJD alliance government. According to data shared by the state public relation department on Tuesday evening, between 2012...
More »Heatwaves in India could soon break human survivability limit, says World Bank analysis -Nandita Banerji
-Down to Earth Poor, marginalised to be worst hit; Economic productivity to be jeopardised too A new report by the World Bank suggests India could soon become one of the first places in the world to experience heatwaves that break the human survivability limit. Climate Investment Opportunities in India’s Cooling Sector said the country is experiencing higher temperatures that arrive earlier and stay far longer. India has witnessed a concurrent increase in meteorological...
More »World Bank ups growth for this fiscal to 6.9 per cent
-The Telegraph This is the first upgrade of India’s growth forecast by any international agency amid global turmoil India’s economy is expected to grow 6.9 per cent in the current fiscal year, the World Bank said in a report on Tuesday, citing tightening monetary policy and high commodity prices as factors impacting the country’s growth. The Bank had trimmed its growth forecast for India to 6.5 per cent in early October from a...
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