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Bengal fails to meet national targets, water meet today
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Devolution of more powers to panchayats in the management of national rural drinking water mission and the issues of arsenic and shortage of drinking water will figure prominently
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Jairam Ramesh to visit Maoist-hit areas of Odisha on May 27
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Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh to visit Rayagada and Malkangiri districts to take stock of development works in these Maoist-infested areas on May 27 and 28.
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Detailed project report on roads under Central scheme sought
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State panchayat and rural development minister Subrata Mukherjee today asked all zilla sabhadhipatis and district magistrates to submit a detailed project report (DPR) for at least 5,000 km of roads across the state under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) by 14 June 2012.
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Assam-Meghalaya border villages to shun militants
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Eighty-four villages located on a remote stretch of the Assam-Meghalaya border have now decided to desist any help to militants who frequent the area.
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Affected by drought, rural folks pour into Pune, Mumbai & Kolhapur
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Open trailers packed with families and cattle have become a common sight along the state's national highways.
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Maharashtra to formulate guidelines
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Maharashtra Rural development minister Jayant Patil has said in view of the growing number of mobile towers in villages,
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Sariska villagers' protest enters second day
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The agitation of farmers under Bharatiya Kisan Union, demanding refurbishing of Sariska road and basic facilities in the villages
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Assam-Meghalaya border villages to shun militants
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Eighty-four villages located on a remote stretch of the Assam-Meghalaya border have now decided to desist any help to militants who frequent the area.
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Development projects fail to lift Junglemahal
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The state's much-hyped development projects for tribal people seem to have brought little qualitative change in lives of the people in Maoist-hit Junglemahal in West Midnapore.
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Bench quashes Principal Secretary's order
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The Madras High Court Bench here has set aside an order passed by the Principal Secretary-cum-Additional Commissioner (Cinema and Irrigation), Land Administration Department,
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Empowering children through Bal Panchayats
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Collector C.N. Maheshwaran will meet the members of the Bal Panchayat at the Collectorate on June 3.
Bal Panchayat (Children's Parliament), an initiative ably supported by the UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund), has been functioning in 142 villages in the district.
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Sariska villagers protest relocation
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Hundreds of people Tuesday blocked the main entrance of the Sariska tiger sanctuary in Rajasthan's Alwar district, protesting relocation of their villages falling within the reserve,
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Soon, a single insurance product for rural folk
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Soon, there may be a single micro insurance product to offer life, personal accident and theft insurance to people in the rural areas.
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Ensure drinking water to all villages: Anil Deshmukh
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Sanctioning 25 bore wells for Gondia and 12 for Tiroda, state civil supplies minister Anil Deshmukh directed all the agencies to ensure that not a single village in the district
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At 100, ex-army man gifts hospital to Rajasthan village
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For Rao Kabool Singh, a World War Two veteran who turned 100 this weekend, it has been a life of service with the army man choosing to take up the cause of the downtrodden in rural areas
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Rs 5 lakh prize for best maintained village
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A cash prize of Rs 5 lakh would be given to the best maintained village in the district. For the purpose 10 villages have been identified, according to V.Sampath, District Collector.
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Groundwater regulation likely in 1,274 villages
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As many as 1,274 villages in 57 talukas of 12 districts, including talukas like Ambegaon, Baramati, Indapur, Junnar, Khed, Purandar and Shirur in Pune district
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Soon, two rural centres to study gene disorders
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The two centres at Kalwari Village (Jaunpur) and Kolar region in Karnataka are going to become functional soon. These centres have been set up under the Genome Foundation.
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Odisha: Development works needed in Maoist hit areas says Ramesh
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Maintaining that mineral rich areas are worst hit by Maoist menace, Union minister for rural development minister Jairam Ramesh on Saturday sought a change in mindset about mining and said political and development activities
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Victims of erosion block highway
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Agitated locals and victims of river erosion at Sidalsati in Bongaigaon district blocked National Highway-31 at around 10 am on Saturday in protest against eviction of flood-affected families who had been taking shelter on the dam of Balajani-Chechapani.
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Odisha: Water Crisis in Talcher Area
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Water is the most important single element needed in order for people to achieve the universal human right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and his family.
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Government mulls course on rural healthcare
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The Indian government is considering a course on rural healthcare to create more manpower to serve in the country's hinterland, the Rajya Sabha was informed Tuesday.
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Centre plans flexifund rural schemes
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The government is thinking of letting the states cherry pick the central schemes for rural welfare, a step back from centralized decision-making that it hopes could help quell the accusations that Centre was weakening the federal structure.
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J&K sarpanches for AP rural development
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About 40 sarpanches from Jammu and Kashmir will take training at the Andhra Pradesh Academy of Rural Development (APARD) here.
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Cyclone ravages 40 Tinsukia villages, 3 killed
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A severe cyclone accompanied by heavy hailstorm that reaped through the Tinsukia district in the late afternoon yesterday claimed three lives, besides causing heavy damage to property.
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