Despite MGNREGS being a demand-driven scheme, the allocation of funds has not been able to keep up with the increased demand for work. During the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020-21 and 2021-22, revised estimates for the scheme were 81 per cent and 31 per cent higher than budget estimates for the corresponding years. However, for the financial year 2023-24, the allocation for MGNREGS has decreased 33% from the previous year's revised estimates.

वित्त मंत्री निर्मला सीतारमण ने 'आत्मनिर्भर आर्थिक पैकेज' में किसानों के लिए 11 महत्वपूर्ण घोषणाएं की, जिसमें उन्होंने कृषि के आधारभूत ढांचे के विकास पर जोर दिया।

From mentoring rural entrepreneurs to facilitating linkages and aiding them with technical training, the enterprise facilitation centres (EFC) or the ‘rozgaar kendras’ have helped set up telemedicine facilities, tuition centres and beauty parlours in rural pockets of Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh.

Tying pregnant women to cots and carrying them to the nearest health centre, lack of sterilised delivery sets and neonatal resuscitation kits, missing mobile medical units and vacant health posts in rural areas. A Gaon Connection report on how villagers in rural parts of the hill state struggle for basic healthcare

By acknowledging its disparate historical roles in climate change, India highlights the significance of climate finance. Lower-middle-income countries like India confront financial obstacles in their efforts to shift to a low-carbon economy.

Despite technology that forecasts lightning strikes and mobile phone applications that pre-warn people, a large number of men and women in rural India are killed every year due to lightning. Bihar and Uttar Pradesh report the maximum casualties. Villagers continue to be ignorant about simple protective and preventive measures they can take.

As per the government records, Uttar Pradesh has a deficit of more than 1.50 lakh primary school teachers. But the ones who are on payroll say they can only teach when freed from clerk hood of 25 odd compilations, including polio vaccinations and general census