Rural Development Ministry Current Affairs, GK & News

Expert Group on SECC submits report to Rural Development Ministry

January 14, 2017

The Expert Group set up to prepare Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) has submitted its report to the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD). The expert group was headed by former Finance Secretary Sumit Bose. The objective of the expert group was to study criteria for allocation of resources to States and identification and prioritization ..

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Union Rural Development Ministry, ISRO ink MoU for geo-tagging MGNREGA assets

June 27, 2016

The Union Rural Development Ministry and ISRO, Department of Space have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for geo-tagging the assets created under MGNREGA in each gram panchayat. Annually around 30 lakh assets are created under the rural job schemes across the country. The MoU was signed after the Ministry had decided that the geo-tagging ..

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