-The Financial Express In a move that may be aimed at narrowing down the scope of the Mahatma Gandhi NREGA Act. In a move that may be aimed at narrowing down the scope of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), the Centre has informally asked states to focus its implementation in the 2,500 blocks designated as backward under the Intensive Participatory Planning Exercise. The Rural Development ministry, in July this...
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Health Minister proposes floating clinics -Smriti Kak Ramachandran
-The Hindu Omar Abdullah directs officials to mobilise boats in Srinagar New Delhi: Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Sunday proposed that boats should be mobilised to send medicines to the people of the flooded areas of Srinagar. These "floating clinics" can be used to deliver medicines, first aid and other supplies to those areas where floodwaters are yet to recede and boats are the only mode of access. After returning from his...
More »Vast gaps in Irrigation potential & utilization
In the midst of irregular monsoons affecting agriculture, a new report shows stagnation in the state of irrigation infrastructure. The recent report entitled Infrastructure Statistics 2014 (Third Issue) by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has provided information that despite the rise in expenditure on irrigation infrastructure, there has been no substantial improvement in the gross irrigation potential utilized*. Athough expenditure on irrigation has increased from Rs. 36561.64 crores...
More »Approval of Phase-V of Unique Identification project
-Press Information Bureau/ Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, today gave its approval for Phase-V of the Unique Identification (UID) scheme for undertaking enrolments in the four States of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand. With this, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has been given the target of generation of 100 crore Aadhaars by 2015....
More »Flood waters recede in J&K; over 50,000 rescued, many still feared trapped
-IANS SRINAGAR: More than 50,000 people have been rescued so far, but hundreds are still trapped here as the flood waters receded on Wednesday. Officials said 215 people have died in the Jammu & Kashmir floods. "Unless the flood waters recede completely, and we are able to reach all the submerged areas, we cannot be sure about the exact toll in these floods," a top state official said. Many are trapped in the...
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