The Cabinet on Wednesday has cleared some pending decisions about spending Rs. 1 lakh crore, a maximum share of which will go in to build houses in rural areas as well as an inflation linked expenditure would be spent on government employees. Also, an agreement has been signed between the ...
Read More »PM Modi’s New Mantra for Rural Development: Just Add Water
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised to a slew of new initiatives in the 2016-2017 budget presented on 29th February, giving special focus on addressing rural stress with the PM pledging for nearly $13 billion on Rural Development to double farmers’ incomes by 2022. Irrigation or rather ‘just adding water’ ...
Read More »Tapping the Rural Market- Tata Motors brings in Project Neev
Project Neev is Tata Motors rural initiative to discover potential markets in especially rural area and thereby empower the population. The project started off with only just three states in the year 2010 and has reached to 11 states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh among others and covering over ...
Read More »Rural India Mission: PM Modi launches new scheme for Rural development
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has flattered the rural part of India on Sunday by inaugurating a Rural-Urban or Rurban Mission in Chhattisgarh as well as urging farmers in Orissa to register for the National Crop Insurance Scheme. The scheme known as Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Scheme aims to improve basic ...
Read More »Parvaaz (Empowerment Scheme for Minority Youth)
Parvaaz is a pilot programme and is one of the sub-schemes under ASDP. The main objective of the program is to mainstream minority BPL youth of the country by empowering them with education, skills and employment. The project will serve as a plateform for the marginalized youth to take their ...
Read More »Provision of Urban Amenities to Rural Areas (PURA)
The Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD), Government of India re-launched the scheme Provision of Urban Amenities in Rural Areas (PURA) during the remaining period of the eleventh five-year plan. MoRD, with support from Department of Economic Affairs and the Asian Development Bank, intends to implement the PURA scheme under a Public Private ...
Read More »Himayat (An opportunity for being skilled)
Himayat is one of the sub-schemes under ASDP. It is a training-cum-placement programme for unemployed youth in Jammu and Kashmir . Youth will be provided short-term training for at least 3 months, in a range of skills for which there is good market demand. At the end of the training, ...
Read More »Roshni (A light to youth in Roshni Districts)
Roshni is one of the sub-schemes under ASDP. The Ministry of Rural Development in 2013, launched a new skill development scheme designed to offer employment to tribal youth in critical Left Wing Extremist (LWE) affected districts. These LWE districts are named as ‘Roshni Districts’ and are 24 in numbers. Roshni will ...
Read More »Aajeevika Skills Development Programme (ASDP)
Aajeevika Skills is the skill and placement initiative by the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India (MoRD). It evolved out of the need to diversify incomes of the rural poor and to cater to the occupational aspirations of their youth. The programme’s focus is on skilling and placement in ...
Read More »PMRD: A Central Govt. Fellowship Scheme for Young People
In a bid to reduce poverty and improve the lives of people in rural India, the central governed launched Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellows Scheme (PMRDFS). This scheme is being implemented in collaboration with the state governments to provide an opportunity for capacity building of bright professionals. Scheme overview: PMRDF ...
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