-PTI GHAZIABAD: The Uttar Pradesh government is contemplating on increasing the interest free loan limit for unemployed youth to set up industrial units in rural belts from Rs 10 lakh to Rs 25 lakh. A formal declaration on increasing the interest free loan limit to unemployed youth to set up industries in rural belts is likely to be made soon, Khadi Gram Udyog Minister Raja Ram Pandey today said at a function...
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Thomas insists on giving grain as NREGS wage-Sandip Das
Notwithstanding apprehensions expressed by rural development minister Jairam Ramesh on the proposal of giving grain as part payment of wages under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, food minister KV Thomas on Sunday continued to support the idea. Thomas said, “There is enough surplus grain to be given to poor families.” In a recent letter to the Jairam Ramesh, Thomas had made the proposal, which he said would also help ease...
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-The Hindu We condemn the attack by the Maoists on April 21 near Kerlapal village in Sukma District in Chhattisgarh, in which they killed two security guards and abducted the Sukma District Collector, Alex Paul Menon. At the time of this attack, Mr. Menon, accompanied by the security guards, was in the process of conducting Gram Swaraj Abhiyaan across the district. A few hours prior to the attack, Mr. Menon had to...
More »The trouble with junk food-Sunita Narain
-The Business Standard It is not in the interest of food companies to advertise what their products contain, but it is in our interest to know Junk food is junk by its very definition. But how bad is it and what is it that companies do not tell people about this food? This is what the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) laboratory checked. The results were both predictable and alarming....
More »Quenching thirst in rural areas-Aparajita Ray
What better elixir than pure water? Thanks to Naandi, a safe drinking water proGramme, 3,90,536 households in rural areas across four Indian states are benefited. Naandi, headquartered in Hyderabad, is a not-for-profit organization which works with governing bodies in rural areas, including Karnataka, to provide clean drinking water to the poor. So what really is their modus operandi? It is essentially a community-run proGramme where the local governing body or Gram...
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