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For effective governance, the PRIs need support from the administration and vice versa. We cannot do away with PRIs as they form an integral part of our democracy. Everyone seeks to empower them - they are the face of political autonomy in the Islands.
Recently, following a PIL in the Bombay High Court, MoEF was directed to submit the report to the court which it did. Activist Sumaira Abdulali who filed the PIL said the fact that former Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh commissioned the report...
Indian Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh(C), Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer, Google Inc. Nikesh Arora (L), and Managing Director and Vice President of Google India, Rajan Anandan pose for a photo during the launch of 'India get... View Photo »
Everybody is agreed, his party is in agreement, but your favourite chief minister is holding it back
India’s mobile subscribers totalled around 894 million at the last count, enough to serve more than half of the country’s 1.2 billion population. But just 366 million people – around a third of the population – had access to proper sanitation, said the...
India's mobile subscribers totalled around 894 million at the last count, enough to serve more than half of the country's 1.2 billion population. But just 366 million people -- around a third of the population -- had access to proper sanitation, said...
The State Intelligence Agencies also pointed out towards the Minister’s lack of awareness of the existing ground reality in Jharkhand. “The observations made by the Minister using a public platform were just irresponsible. He is a Central Minister, who...
Indian Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh speaks during the launch of 'India get your Business Online' in New Delhi on November 2, 2011. Google India announced the launch of a nationwide initiative to help small medium businesses in India to get... View Photo »
We met Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh and discussed how the bill should have been drafted. We are asking whether plans have been made keeping in mind people's consensus who are losing land, and providing them with feasible means of livelihood
Development Minister Jairam Ramesh Wednesday called for making India an open defecation-free country in 10 years. Addressing a national consultation on scaling up sanitation here, Ramesh said there is a need to build a mass movement on the issue as the...
India's mobile subscribers totalled around 894 million at the last count, enough to serve more than half of the country's 1.2 billion population. But just 366 million people - around a third of the population - had access to proper sanitation, said the...
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Indian Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh speaks during the launch of 'India get your Business Online' in New Delhi on November 2, 2011. Google India announced the launch of a nationwide initiative to help small medium businesses in India to get online with a free website.
View Photo »Indian Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia (L) watches as Indian Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh (R) addresses a press conference in New Delhi on October 3, 2011. Under fire over his definition of the poverty line Planning Commission Deputy Chairman...
View Photo »Jairam Ramesh, left, Dinesh Trivedi, second left, Beni Prasad Verma, third left, and V. Kishore Chandra Deo, fourth left, stand as the national anthem plays after they were inducted during a cabinet reshuffle in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, July 12, 2011. India's embattled Prime Minister...
View Photo »New Cabinet minister Jairam Ramesh reacts after a swearing-in ceremony at The Presidential Palace in New Delhi on July 12, 2011. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh came under renewed fire after he failed to make sweeping changes to his cabinet in a reshuffle that the opposition...
View Photo »New Cabinet Minister Jairam Ramesh (R) talks with Minister of State with Independent Charge for Environment, Jayanthi Natarajan, as they wait to take their oaths during a swearing-in ceremony at The Presidential Palace in New Delhi on July 12, 2011. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh...
View Photo »New Indian Cabinet Ministers Jairam Ramesh (C), Dinesh Trivedi (R), and Minister of State Jayanthi Natarajan, wait to take their oaths during a swearing-in ceremony at The Presidential Palace in New Delhi on July 12, 2011. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh came under renewed fire...
View Photo »Jairam Ramesh (R) looks over to Indian President Prathibha Patils (C), as he takes an oath as a Cabinet Minister during a swearing-in ceremony at The Presidential Palace in New Delhi on July 12, 2011. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh came under renewed fire after he failed Tuesday...
View Photo »(L-R) Newly appointed India's Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Rajiv Shukla, Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology Milind Deora, President Pratibha Patil, Railways Minister Dinesh Trivedi, Minister of State for Home...
View Photo »Indian Union Minister of State for Environment and Forest Jairam Ramesh gestures during talks on his visit to the Space Application Centre (SAC) of Indian Space Research Organistaion (ISRO) in Ahmedabad on June 8, 2011. India, which aims to send its first manned flight into space in...
View Photo »Chairman of the meet and Indian Minister of Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh addresses delegates at the "Elephant-8 Ministerial Meet" in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, May 24, 2011. Representatives of the eight countries where elephants roam freely are meeting to secure a future for...
View Photo »From left, Claude Etienne Masimba of Congo, Agus SB Sutito from Indonesia, Onkokame Kitso Mokaila of Botswana, Noah Wekesa of Kenya, Jairam Ramesh, Indian minister of Environment and Forests, Paul I. Sarakiky of Tanzania, Anura Priyadharshana Yapa of Sri Lanka and Mattana Srikrachang...
View Photo »Pedestrians walk on a roadside past a power sub-station in the outskirts of Kolkata on December 9, 2009. India's environment minister Jairam Ramesh announced last week that India would reduce its carbon intensity by 20 to 25 percent by 2020, compared to 2005 levels, in a move designed...
View Photo »Indian students hold placards during their protest against the proposed nuclear power plant in Maharashtra state, at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai on May 11, 2011. Some 20 students on May 11 boycotted the convocation ceremony attended by the Minister of State for...
View Photo »Indian students of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences hold placards as they protest against the proposed Jaitapur nuclear power plant in Maharashtra state in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, May 11, 2011. Around a dozen students boycotted their convocation ceremony as a mark of protest...
View Photo »Indian Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh speaks during the launch of 'India get your Business Online' in New Delhi on November 2, 2011. Google India announced the launch of a nationwide initiative to help small medium businesses in India to get online with a free website.
View Photo »Everybody is agreed, his party is in agreement, but your favourite chief minister is holding it back
We met Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh and discussed how the bill should have been drafted. We are asking whether plans have been made keeping in mind people's consensus who are losing land, and providing them with feasible means of livelihood
It does not talk about the responsibility of business to follow the rules of the game
Jairam Ramesh doesn't know the political realities of the state. They need to stop doing 'Dalali' for CPM or else they won't just get a VRS but a CRS.
If an industry wants to go and buy land from farmers directly, all that this bill is suggesting is that beyond a certain threshold, that private purchase should be subject to certain safeguards of R&R (resettlement and rehabilitation)
as far as rural development is concerned, she (Banerjee)has our full support. Already we have announced several schemes for building up of rural roads in West Midnapore. What earlier government did in 10 years, we are going to accomplish in next two years
I believe there are no proposals from Orissa pending with us
When this is also sanctioned soon thereafter, I would have fulfilled the commitments I made regarding Orissa when we had met in Bhubaneswar on August 14
We are expecting the state to submit proposals worth around Rs 1200 core for 15 IAP districts by the end of December.
We've not renounced politics. We are a political party, not an NGO
Our Rural Development ministry has implemented various schemes at the Panchayat level.
I assure 600 km in two years from now in the state.
Panchayats should keep a tab on the working of MNREGA. Roads being built one season is being swept way in the next monsoon due to corruption
Congress is a political party and not an NGO. We have not taken (political) sanyas
Maoists neither want development nor a political solution. They only believe in extremism and the language of the gun. Development and economic uplift of adivasis must be used as weapons to counter the Maoists' guns
Congress and Trinamool Congress belong to one family and it is the right of all to take out political processions. There is nothing wrong in it
