Rural Connectivity Current Affairs, GK & News
Rural Infrastructure Development Fund
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) recently announced that it provided Rs 1,236 crores to Assam in 2020-21 from its Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF). What is RIDF? It was created in 1995-96 with an initial corpus of Rs 2,000 crores. In 2020-21, Rs 29,848 crores was allocated to RIDF. With this ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2021
Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs
Topics: Agriculture • Assam • Energy conservation • Fishing • NABARD • Photovoltaic system • RIDF • Rural Connectivity • rural infrastructure
Free Wi-Fi services provided to all villages till 2020
On December 25, 2019, Union Minister of Communication and IT Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad inaugurated “Digital Village Guruwara”. During the launch, it was announced that the Government has planned to offer free Wi-Fi services to all villages till March 2020. Highlights The Government of India has so far connected 1,30,000-gram panchayats through Bharatnet. More than ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2019
Topics: BharatNet • BharatNet project • Broadband • Digital India • Digital Village • Gram panchayat • India Rural Development Report • Rural Connectivity
India, ADB sign $200-million loan agreement for upgrading rural roads in Maharashtra
India and Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed 200-million dollar loan agreement for upgrading rural roads in 34 districts of Maharashtra with the objective of improving road safety and better connecting rural areas with markets and services. The agreement was signed between Sameer Kumar Khare, Additional Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) in Union Ministry of ..
Month: Current Affairs - September, 2019
Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs
Topics: Asian Development Bank • India-ADB • Maharashtra • Maharashtra Rural Road Development Association • Rural Connectivity • Rural Roads Project
Short Note : Road construction in Rural India
To improve road connectively in the rural areas of the country, The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana-lll (PMGSY-III). The PMGSY-III aims to consolidate the roads in the rural area which include the Through Routes and Major Rural Links that connect habitations to Gramin Agricultural Markets (GrAMs), Higher ..
Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs
Topics: Insurgency • Road • Rural Connectivity • village
Government inks $110 million loan agreement with ADB to upgrade rural roads in MP
Government has inked $110 million loan agreement with Asian Development Bank (ADB) to upgrade all-weather rural roads in Madhya Pradesh under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY). It is second tranche of $500 million Second Rural Connectivity Investment Programme for India approved by ADB in December 2017. Rural Connectivity Investment Programme The overall Second Rural Connectivity ..
Month: Current Affairs - October, 2018
Topics: ADB • Madhya Pradesh • National • Odisha • Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana • Rural Connectivity • Rural Roads