Maharashtra to create 50 smart villages
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said he wants to focus not only on smart cities but also smart villages and create 50 such in 2016. Maharashtra has developed its first smart village with the
Village Level Planning
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Scaling success- Lessons from adaptation pilots in the rainfed regions of India
<p>As climate change threatens India’s food security, adaptation in the agriculture sector is becoming increasingly important. However, for too long, adaptation has been characterized by individual
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Implementation of Forest Rights Act 2006 in Odisha
Analysing the problem-ridden process of implementing the Forest Rights Act 2006 in Odisha, this paper points out that it has focused more on providing land rights to individual claimants, neglecting community
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Life in Khunti changes with biodiversity project
RANCHI: The Khunti district in the past has been feared for Red terror but there is a success story there too in which the conservation of biodiversity was done by roping the village community. This not
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Public report on health - Some key findings and policy recommendations
A bottom-up view of the health conditions and services in six states – three performing and three not-so-well performing ones – was arrived at through a study by a multidisciplinary team with varied experiences
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Every village to have lok shikshan kendra
Lok shikshan kendras are being set up in every Haryana village with a population of 5,000 each under the Saakshar Bharat Mission, a Centrally sponsored scheme. Samir Pal Saro, Director General, School
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Soil resource database at village level for developmental planning
A study was carried out in village Mohamadabad, Nalgonda district, Andhra Pradesh to demonstrate the potential of high-resolution remote sensing data in generating soil resource database at village level
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With . 90,000 crore at Stake, Plan Panel Goes in for Recast of Panchayat System
The country’s main planning body will overhaul of the system of village panchayat in the next Five-Year Plan period to improve its functioning and check siphoning of funds meant for social sector programmes.
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Development on cards for 100 Raj villages
With the state government gearing up to draft the Master Plan-2025 for rural areas, village panchayats may soon lose their freedom to allocate land for hospitals or schools as per their wishes. The urban development and housing (UDH) department has selected 100 villages, with a minimum population of 10,000, across the state for their centralised planning.
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NGOs justify opposition to govt projects
If the government thought that some groups or NGOs make unnecessary and unwarranted noises over