More than administrative tools, accurate land records are the backbone of socio-economic planning, public service delivery and conflict resolution, the government said on Tuesday.
Super typhoon Yagi that swept through Vietnam's northern mountainous localities over the weekend killed at least 21 people and injured 229 others, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on Sunday evening.
The minister informed that today he held a meeting and instructed the Rural Development Board and all the agencies associated with it to set their timeline by June 15.
The state government has targeted to pay pending wages to more than one lakh migrant Mahatma Gandhi NREGA workers by 1 March.
The BJP MP said if the practice does not stop, then Bihar will turn into an "Islamic state".
Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Minister Virender Kanwar said that in non-tribal areas, new Gram Panchayats from those existing Gram Panchayats will be created, where total population as per 2011 census is equal to and more than 2000, number of households equal to and more than 500, number of villages equal to and more than five and distance of the farthest village from the existing headquarter of the Gram Sabha is equal to and more than five km subject to the condition that minimum resultant population of the existing and newly proposed Gram Panchayat before and after bifurcation is minimum 600.
For the financial year 2020-21, a sum of Rs 31,493 crore has already been released which is more than 50 per cent of the budget estimate of the current Financial Year.
Centre mulls policy to ensure that farmers directly get benefits meant for them.
Parking aside the question of whether or not this march of the farmer will move the government, it would be worthwhile for the urban intelligentsia to familiarise itself with issues that impinge on India’s hard-earned food security, as policy-driven disasters visit the countryside.
After a meeting on drug abuse campaign, Thakur said drug abuse had emerged as a global problem and our nation and state were no exception.
