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Indian Ministry of Rural Development to implement NLRMP

 

New light on global poverty?

The World Bank’s poverty update, which stresses that higher poverty is associated with a faster rate of poverty decline, misses features that warrant a less complacent view.

Agriculture's role in contemporary development

While GDP growth in India is touching new highs, the divergence in sectoral growth rates only increases. Industry and, particularly, services record creditable or remarkable rates of growth, but the agricultural sector performs poorly. In this edition of Macroscan, C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh discuss some implications of this disproportionality.

Agriculture key to India's economic growth: Chidambaram

Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram Friday called for higher growth rate in agriculture, saying the sector was key to the growth of India's economy.

In Fertile India, Growth Outstrips Agriculture

With the right technology and policies, India could help feed the world. Instead, it can barely feed itself.

ADB Plans to Boost Rural Development and Operations in Poor States in India

 

It takes an Afghan child a very long time to smile

Children get routinely killed, maimed, detained and sexually abused in Afghanistan. They have been recruited by government and anti-government forces alike as soldiers and even forced to become suicide bombers by the Talibans, says UN Special Representative.

BANGLADESH: Middle classes scramble for subsidised rice

DHAKA, 4 April 2008 (IRIN) - Government-run outlets selling subsidised rice and other basic commodities are now being besieged by members of the middle class as food prices continue to rise.

Indian villages are new tourist hotspots

Purushwadi is not even a dot on the map of Maharashtra. Yet, there are many who now want to go there during their weekend holidays.

Education, Communication, Training and Capacity Building

In 1992, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) developed the concept of "Village Knowledge Centre" (community base).

Education, Communication, Training and Capacity Building

In 1992, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) developed the concept of "Village Knowledge Centre" (community base). Since, 1997, MSSRF is implementing the Village Knowledge Center (VKC) and Village Resource Centre (VRC) programme. In 2003, the VRC and VKC programmes were further strengthened in the form of creating Jamsetji Tata National Virtual Academy for Rural Prosperity (NVA) through the collaboration with several international and national partners (including content and capacity building). All our VRCs are connected by ISRO uplink / downlink satellites. The main aim of the programme is to empower vulnerable people in order to make better choices and achieve better control of their own development and to build skills and capacities of the rural poor with a view to enhancing livelihood opportunities. The NVA programme is to bring together the experts and grassroots level communities in two-way communication with the objective that knowledge should reach every home and hut.

Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world

Climate change is the defining human development challenge of the 21st Century

National Convention on Social Security for Unorganised Workers

 

Evolving A Sustainable Paradigm

A part of Development Alternatives operates among the poor and marginalized communities across the country

Violence against women on the rise in literate Kerala

Why does a state that boasts India’s highest literacy levels and excellent social development indicators see a 300% increase in violence against women?

Blossoms from the dust

Now my father is very happy and promises to educate me further

NEPAL: Challenges of reintegrating former child soldiers

 

Sex education in children

The growth of your child into adolescence may put your parenting and communication skills to the test. Sex education varies according to the beliefs of a particular community.

Is the media watching poverty enough?

If our media can provide regular updates on the stock markets, foreign exchange and bullion rates, weather, pollution, etc., surely they can add a poverty watch? The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty passed on 17 October, and Ammu Joseph scanned the national press from Bangalore.

DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Lack of Water, Lack of Education

While social taboos may hinder the education of girls in India’s poor communities, the experience in some slum communities in this southern Indian city indicates that the lack of access to water could be just as responsible.

Child slavery thriving in Indian cotton industry

The local seed farmer justifies the continued and increasing employment of children, particularly girls.

South Asian Film Fest for dissolving boundaries

Films play a very important role in South Asia, being the sole medium of entertainment available to masses at affordable price.

Forced to take up arms

Children as terror tool

Nuclearisation rather than terrorism poses greater danger to West Asia

We are heading towards showdown between Israel and Iran: Professor Sivan

Janadesh 2007 (People’s Verdict 2007)

Retrieving People’s Dignity through Land and Livelihood

Hyderabad reverses decade-long adverse sex ratio

The capital of Andhra Pradesh has made the killing of girl-children almost impossible through strict enforcement of the ban on sex-determination tests

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Supports Stand Up and Speak Out

His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has confirmed his support and participation in Stand Up and Speak Out 2007.

Corporate India to push technology for inclusive growth

During the press conference held by the Conference of Indian Industry (CII), Sunil Bharti Mittal, CII President and Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, asks for skill development of socially disadvantaged classes.

Red Light Dispatch, India’s first newsmagazine for sex-workers

Is brought out exclusively by sex-workers from an office located within a brothel in Mumbai’s Kamathipura district. This unique magazine discusses the problems and dreams of sex-workers

Media Fellowships on HIV and AIDS in India

Panos South Asia invites Television journalists from India to apply for a fellowship to research and produce television features around HIV and AIDS in India.