/topics/governance
Governance
Hard work, no pay - Summer jobs off the beaten track - Opportunities for working on NREGA and ICDS schemes in Araria, Bihar
Posted on 14 Apr, 2011 04:44 PMForwarded to the portal by: Kamayani Swami and Ashish Ranjan for Jan Jagaran Shakti Sangathan
Do you support the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) and the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS)? Then why not give some of your time to help make it work?
River Mandovi cries for help - Video report from WAVE
Posted on 14 Apr, 2011 10:53 AMArticle and Video Courtesy: WAVE India
Author:
Mines in Goa deplete water supply - A film from India Unheard Video Volunteers
Posted on 14 Apr, 2011 10:35 AM
Status of MGNREGA in Chattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh
Posted on 13 Apr, 2011 02:15 PMArticle courtesy: CGNet Swara
NREGA: No payment for a year, complaints do not work
Rasatulla Khan, state president of Samajwadi party in Chattisgarh, is talking about a village in Baloda bazar block where laborers have not got their NREGA wages for more than a year now.
NREGA: Gram Panchayat does not take any application for work
Ramdas Dhurve from Narsinghpur district in Madhya Pradesh, says that in their area Sarpach and Sachiv in Gram Panchayat do not accept any application for work under NREGA.
Realisation of the fundamental right to water in rural areas: Implications of the evolving policy framework for drinking water – An article by Philippe Cullet in Economic and Political Weekly
Posted on 13 Apr, 2011 10:20 AMThe fundamental right to water in rural areas is well-established in India, but the actual content of this right has not been elaborated upon in judicial decisions. There is no general drinking water legislation that would provide this missing content.
Narmada dam - Land for some, hope for others - A short film from Video Volunteers
Posted on 13 Apr, 2011 10:16 AMAfter 3 decades of relentless fighting for rehabilitation, 113 tribal families displaced by Sardar Sarovar Dam on the River Narmada in India’s Madhya Pradesh have finally had their demand fulfilled. The families have received land on which they can now build their homes again. Rakesh says that the development has raised the hopes of thousands of others like him who are still awaiting resettlement.
India's agricultural statistics at a glance – A Publication by Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Department of Agriculture and Cooperation (2010)
Posted on 13 Apr, 2011 08:06 AM“Agricultural Statistics at a Glance 2010” is compiled by the Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Department of Agriculture and Cooperation. It provides a wide range of data on outlays, expenditure and capital formation, crop production and productivity across States, markets and prices, terms of trade, price support and procurement, domestic and international trade, credit, insurance etc.,
Timely availability of reliable information on agricultural output and other related aspects is of great significance for planning and policy making particularly, in the management of concerns in areas such as food security, price stability, international trade etc. The information is extremely useful in identifying problem areas and the nature of required intervention in terms of spatial, temporal and qualitative inferences. The handbook presents a comprehensive picture of the progress made by the agriculture sector at the All India level as well as across the States.
Presentations from the Water India conference organised by Confederation of Indian Industry (2011)
Posted on 12 Apr, 2011 11:56 PMThe Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)organised the Water India conference, around the theme “Transforming the municipal and industrial water landscape - Issues, challenges and opportunities".