Bhopal : Houses are being made available to the poor and needy in the rural areas of Madhya Pradesh under Chief Minister’s Rural Housing Mission. Beneficiaries of the scheme are provided loans for construction of houses through banks. Madhya Pradesh Rural Roads Development Authority Chief Executive Officer Shri Ajay Tirkey and officers of Bank of Baroda and Union Bank of India signed a Memorandum of Understanding here today in connection of availability of loans under the scheme.

Bhopal : Houses are being made available to the poor and needy in the rural areas of Madhya Pradesh under Chief Minister’s Rural Housing Mission. Beneficiaries of the scheme are provided loans for construction of houses through banks. Madhya Pradesh Rural Roads Development Authority Chief Executive Officer Shri Ajay Tirkey and officers of Bank of Baroda and Union Bank of India signed a Memorandum of Understanding here today in connection of availability of loans under the scheme.

Study says natural growth of urban population added largest chunk of 40m people to urban areas & sees rapid urbanisation of villages as challenge
Rapid urbanisation of villages and expansion of urban areas pose a more pressing challenge to Indian policymakers and administrators than migration of people from rural areas to the cities, a new report has said.

RATANPUR (Murshidabad), 17 NOV: Villagers here have embarked on a collective effort for constructing a clay road which would serve as a short-cut and curtail around 30 km road distance to reach their district headquarters of Behrampore.
As the local gram panchayat preferred to sit idle, the residents of Ratanpur village at Khargram block of Kandi sub-division in Murshidabad, decided to build a 2-km clay road without government help. The road, running on a plot of lowland adjoining their settlement, would enable the villagers to avoid travelling 30 km out of their way.

As the government gears up for a year-long campaign to spread awareness about the Right to Education, a report on teaching and learning in rural India finds that progress in learning ability of students has not been commensurate to the massive investment in primary education and increase in enrolment.

The rural development ministry has drawn out a plan to spend as much as Rs 2 lakh crore on two of its major schemes — Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) and the Swarna Jayanti Gramin Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY). The ministry, however, has left it to the government and the plan panel to decide the timeline over which these funds should be spent.

After restructuring almost every scheme in its kitty, the rejuvenated ministry of rural development plans to lend a hand to its urban counterpart in towns and cities that have recently shed their overgrown village tag.

BHUHBANESWAR: Nabard has sanctioned Rs. 331.28 crore to the State Government for construction of 12 rural roads and 16 rural bridges, and execution of 228 minor irrigation schemes under Biju Krishak Vikash Yojana and 36 projects of minor irrigation, drainage system improvement and flood protection.

The projects getting assistance under the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) Tranche XVII (2011-12) will be implemented over the next two to three years. These will benefit people of 23 districts.