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Maheshwar dam brings Digvijay, BJP together by Mahim Pratap Singh

In letters to Prime Minister, he pitches for the project to continue and vouches for rehabilitation Digvijay urged Manmohan to get Environment Ministry to withdraw order suspending work He also said the State had made substantial progress in rehabilitation While he seldom misses an opportunity to attack the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party government in Madhya Pradesh, documents recently accessed through the Right to Information Act show that the former Chief Minister and AICC...

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Vidarbha needs to be patient, says Montek

Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Saturday said the Vidarbha region has failed to keep pace with development in the rest of the country. Speaking to TOI, he said, "I won't use the word backward because we do not believe in that concept. But, yes, Vidarbha is clearly lagging behind the rest of Maharashtra." He was in Nagpur to speak on 'Growing disparity despite growing GDP'. "He urged the people...

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NREGA failed in Assam: Study

Assam’s performance on NREGA implementation remained a matter of concern for the year April 2009 – March 2010. NREGA is to guarantee 100 days of guaranteed employment of the rural communities of Assam but research showed a different picture. North East Social Trust (NEST), a voluntary organization working for the community development for last eight years in Assam, carried out a research last year in collaboration with the Indo-Global Social...

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Hand over rural job scam probe to CBI: Opp

Opposition parties on Wednesday asked Orissa government to hand over the investigation into the rural job scam under MGNREGA to CBI before the Supreme Court issues a direction to that effect as the Panchayati Raj Minister admitted diversion of funds in the scheme. "As the corruption is totally exposed, it is better to hand over the probe to CBI before the Supreme Court issues an order to that effect," Leader...

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Money where the mouth is by E Somanathan

As of 2006, over 43% of Indian children under five were malnourished, a rate that has barely budged since the early 1990s. This gives India the dubious distinction of having the highest percentage of malnourished children in the world. There are at least 53 poorer countries with lower malnutrition rates, including Bangladesh, Nepal, Haiti and several African countries. At Independence, India was poor, so it wasn’t thought possible to guarantee...

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