Gram Panchayats
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Punjab Panchayat elections: Voting underway for posts of 'sarpanch' and 'panch'
India | Oct 15, 2024, 09:49 AM ISTPunjab Panchayat elections: The voting for the panchayat elections is underway. It started at 8:00 am and will end at 4:00 pm. After the voting concludes, the counting of the votes will be done at the polling booths
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Money For Rural India From Delhi Triples
India | Jun 19, 2015, 03:08 PM ISTOver the next five years, money to rural local governments (panchayats) will rise nearly three times, from Rs 63,051 crore ($13.3 billion) to Rs 200,292 crore ($31.2 billion), on the recommendations of the 14th Finance
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People in no-toilet villages indirectly consuming excreta: Government
India | Jan 04, 2015, 02:22 PM ISTNew Delhi: In a village of 1,200 people not having toilets, each inhabitant has to indirectly consume through contaminated food about three grams of each other's faecal matter every day, says a government report.The ‘Elementary
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India to be open-defecation free in ten years says Jairam Ramesh
National | Jun 30, 2012, 08:03 PM ISTAgartala, Jun 30: Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh today said India has embarked on a ten-year mission to make India an open-defecation free country.The minister, who held a review meeting with representatives of Northeastern
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Maharashtra Passes Bill For 50 pc Reservation To Women In Local Bodies
India | Apr 14, 2011, 07:46 AM ISTMumbai, Apr 14: The Maharashtra state assembly on Wednesday evening passed a bill to provide 50 per cent reservation to women in all local bodies including Municipal corporations. The bill passed unanimously provides for 50