Seventy-seven schools run by the Pune Municipal Corporation do not have sanitation facilities in tune with the norms set by the Union ministry of rural development's department of drinking water supply, a Right to Information Act (RTI) application by P M Shah Foundation has found. Lack of proper sanitation facilities was one of the reasons girls dropped out of school. The information was sought from the civic education board. The...
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Former UP govt official arrested in NRHM scam
-PTI The CBI on Saturday arrested a former official of a Uttar Pradesh government-owned public sector unit for his alleged involvement in the Rs 10,000 crore National rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam. Sources said the accused, GK Batra, former MD of Shreeton India, was arrested following a day-long intensive interrogation by agency sleuths. The CBI has so far arrested five persons including former UP Small Industries Corporation md Abhay Kumar Bajpai, former...
More »Unique ID better than PC smart card: Montek by Nishit Dholabhai
The Planning Commission today said Nandan Nilekani’s unique identification (UID) numbers were a more practical option than P. Chidambaram’s smart cards when it comes to electronic transfer of benefits to the rural poor. Plan panel deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said the UID numbers could be used even through “mobile telephones while the smart card can only be read by a card-reader”. The commission and the home ministry have both been pushing...
More »ADB loan cleared for road works in naxal-hit villages by K Balchand
The Union government has cleared an external loan to finance part of the programme launched by the Ministry of rural Development in left wing extremism-affected villages. The clearance is for a loan of $500 million from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to speed up construction of rural roads. Union Minister of rural Development Jairam Ramesh has, in a letter, urged Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee to issue directions for negotiating and early signing...
More »Rs. 46.94 cr ‘misappropriated’ in MNREG, says AP rural Dev. minister
-PTI A social audit of Mahatma Gandhi National rural Employment Guarantee (MNREG) programme in Andhra Pradesh has established that a total of Rs 109 crore were “deviated” since it launch. Of the amount, Rs 46.94 crore were found to have been “misappropriated”, according to the state Minister for rural Development, Dokka Mankiya Varaprasad. “Of the misappropriated sum, we have so far recovered Rs 17.5 crore,” the minister told reporters after releasing the 2012...
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