Rs 36,000 Crore in order to ameliorate sanitation in rural areas in 12th Plan: Planning Commission

Planning Commission allocates Rs 36,000 crore in the 12th Five Year Plan for improving sanitation in Rural Areas It is an increment from Rs 7,800 crore in the previous Plan About 60% of open defecation in the world are in ..

Month: Current Affairs - June, 2012

30 new activities brought under NREGS

The government has amended Schedule-I and Schedule-II of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee (MGNREG) Act, 2005. There is now an expansion of the scope of activities permitted under the MNREGS by including 30 new activities. These will supplement ..

Month: Current Affairs - May, 2012

Rural Ministry plans to extend Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan

Union Rural Development Minister Mr Jairam Ramesh says that new Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan will ensure the extension of the sanitation scheme to both Above Poverty Line and Below Poverty Line families. Subsidy amount for the sanitation scheme is also being ..

Month: Current Affairs - March, 2012

Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs

63.8 Crore people go for Open Defecation in India: UNICEF

As per the data of 2008, UNICEF as has estimated that around 63.8 Crore (i.e. 54% of total population) people in India practice open defecation due to inadequate sanitation. UNICEF also says that India accounts for 58% of those who ..

Month: Current Affairs - December, 2011

Bachelor of Rural Medicine and Surgery (BRMS)

To address the shortage of doctors in rural areas, the health ministry had come up last year with a new course called Bachelor of Rural Medicine and Surgery (BRMS). The idea was to offer a three-and-half-year course without specialization. It ..

Month: Current Affairs - November, 2011

Integrated Low Cost Sanitation (ILCS) Scheme

What this Scheme is About? The “Integrated Low Cost Sanitation” Scheme aims at conversion of individual dry latrine into pour flush latrine thereby liberating manual scavengers from the age old, obnoxious practice of manually carrying night soil. History: ILCS scheme ..

Month: Current Affairs - September, 2009

Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs

Valmiki Ambedkar Awas Yojana (VAMBAY)

The VAMBAY was launched in December 2001 to ameliorate the conditions of the urban slum dwellers living below the poverty line without adequate shelter. The scheme has the primary objective of facilitating the construction and up-gradation of dwelling units for ..