Self-help groups have taken over the responsibility of supplying meals to 70 per cent of the schools.
Though there is a demand from the states for continuance of the 75:25 funding pattern under the SSA, at present, the Plan panel is not considering the pattern change.
Norms flouted, non-BPL families cornered grants, say rural development ministry's reports.
The latest evidence that caste discrimination in the country is alive and kicking in the country is a report by the International Labour Organisation.
The state governments will be allowed to acquire a maximum of 10 per cent of the total land area allotted for a special economic zone for purposes of contiguity, according to a top source in the rural development ministry.
While the rural development ministry claims high success rate in the previous two years under its flagship Swarnajayati Gram Swarozgar Yojana, a total of 3,24,526 eligible self-help groups are still awaiting financial assistance under the programme.
While the seven IITs have been granted Rs 988 crore (Rs 9.88 billion) to increase the number of seats by 54 per cent to implement the 27 per cent quotas for OBCs, the 18 central universities have been given a raw deal in the Budget.
Claims to regain business lost to private courier operators.
The Ministry of Human Resource Development has decided to start finishing schools which would impart skills to the graduates while also brushing-up their knowledge of core subjects.
A year after the launch of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme, two sets of figures that it throws up are arresting.
The human resource development ministry plans to extend the mid-day meal scheme to children in the upper primary classes in the next financial year.
IIMs have categorically asked the government not to interfere in their internal affairs so that they can smoothly carry out their work of making IIMs a global brand on par with the big B schools like Harvard and Wharton.
The medium and small-scale corporates in the country can realise a vital surge in their employee talent pool
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