Following is the trascriptof President Pratibha Patil's address to the joint sittingof Parliament on Thursday.Honourable Members, I convey my good wishes to you and to all our people. On behalf of......
A Parliamentary Standing Committee has said that it was "perturbed" to note the under utilisation of funds in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, popularly known as BIMARU states.......
After the infrastructure sector, the public-private partnership model will be extended to rural job generation as well. The initial success of the flagship National Rural Livelihood Mission has......
The government on Friday admitted certain flaws in its flagship rural employment programme like irregularities in payment of wages and said steps were being taken to set them right. The government......
The stark difference in wages earned in urban and rural regions, which drives millions of rural poor to migrate towards towns and cities, is highlighted in the latest National Sample Survey......
To pep up rural demand ahead of the general elections, the National Democratic Alliance government has decided to spend up to 60 per cent of the allocation for rural development for 2004-05 on the......
A Reserve Bank of India-constituted group on micro finance has pushed for the creation of an autonomous and professionally-managed National Micro Finance Equity Fund with an initial subscription of......