Ministry of Panchayati Raj (India)

A tryst with Nehru

Looking back at Jawaharlal Nehru, through the eyes of Walter Crocker whose prophetic out-of-print book Nehru: A Contemporary’s Estimate, has been republished, Karan Thapar asked Mani Shankar Aiyar, Swapan Dasgupta, Ramachandra...

Union Ministers differ on climate change strategy

The government is formulating strategies on eight national missions ‘Blending traditional knowledge with modern science can take us forward’ NEW DELHI: Union Panchayati Raj Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar and Science and Technology...

National panel on nutrition set up

At the fag end of its tenure, the UPA government has fulfilled a longstanding demand by civic rights groups to set up a consultative body on the country's nutritional policy headed by the prime minister.

Three-tier communal harmony panels to be set up in a month

Special Correspondent Bangalore: Plagued by a series of attacks on churches across the State, affecting communal harmony within months of coming to power, the Bharatiya Janata Party government on Monday decided to constitute...

Terror attacks reaction to Babri demolition: Mani Aiyer

Lucknow, Nov 9 (IANS) Union Panchayati Raj Minister and senior Congress leader Mani Shanker Aiyer Sunday termed the increasing terror activities in the country as a reaction to the demolition of the centuries-old Babri Masjid...

RTI Act yet to make impact in villages, say policymakers

New Delhi: Three years after India enacted a transparency law, it is still not effectively used by villagers at a time government spending in rural projects is not properly accounted for, say activists and policymakers. On the...

Orissa sanctions 5,000 houses for Kandhamal poor

BHUBANESWAR: In a bid to win confidence of people in riot-ravaged Kandhamal, Orissa government on Friday sanctioned 5,000 houses under the state's 'mo kudia' (My House) scheme on priority basis, of...

Rs.150 crore sought to develop local bodies

NEW DELHI: Puducherry Chief Minister V. Vaithilingam met Union Home Minister V. Shivraj Patil and 13th Finance Commission Chairman Vijay L. Kelkar here on Thursday and sought inclusion of Puducherry in the Commission’s ambit...

Device to transmit data about relief shelters

Data for areas not covered by mobile network can be stored Personal Digital Assistant costs about Rs. 60,000 — Photo: Ashoke Chakrabarty Vital info: Visitors at the exhibition organised to mark the Disaster Preparedness Day in...

Mani Shankar Aiyar, Panchayati Raj Minister

27 Oct, 2008, 0313 hrs IST,Nirmala Ganapathy, Panchayati Raj Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar has been advocating inclusive growth by empowering panchayati raj institutions. In an interview with ET, Mr Aiyar offers his ideas on how...

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