Prime Minister Narendra Modi has unveiled ten significant schemes aimed at accelerating India`s development across various sectors. The initiatives were launched to enhance infrastructure, education, ...

CHENNAI, India, Sept 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - On the outskirts of Amaravalli village on India's east coast, Marada Suguna has been hard at work planting mangroves. Hired through India's rural ...

INDIA’S RURAL DEVELOPMENT framework has entered a decisive new phase. The Viksit Bharat—Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika ...

Twenty-five years have now passed since the launch of the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY). Introduced in December 2000 by the government led by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the ...

Arunachal to digitally disseminate info about schemes in tribal languages in remote areas: Min ...

The Rural Development Ministry is framing rules for the transition of the rural employment guarantee scheme from the UPA-era MGNREGA to VB-GRAM G which is set to replace it, the Lok Sabha was informed ...

Rs 5,479 crore budget for Rural Development Department in 2026-27: Gujarat Minister Kunvarji Bavaliya ...

(This was originally published in the India File newsletter, which is issued every Tuesday. Sign up here to get the latest news from India and how it matters to the world.) India has overhauled a ...

NEW DELHI: With Congress set to launch a protest against the VB-G RAM G scheme, which replaced the UPA-era MGNREGA, the rural development ministry has sent a detailed report on the new scheme to all ...

Puducherry Home Minister A. Namassivayam has criticised the INDIA bloc of playing politics over the “revamping” of rural employment guarantee scheme by the Central government. Addressing a press ...

Feb 1 (Reuters) - The Indian government cut back the spending on the rural jobs guarantee scheme for the next fiscal year to 600 billion rupees ($7.34 billion), the budget document showed on Wednesday ...