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  India rich in funds, poor in 'honest leaders' for rural upliftment: Nitin Gadkari

  India | January 18, 2026 8:17 IST

  Union Minister Nitin Gadkari declared, "There is no dearth of money in this country. There is no shortage of funds. There is a need for political leaders to work honestly for villages, the poor and farmers."

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  Chhattisgarh govt approves bus service scheme to provide transport facilities to rural areas

  chhattisgarh | April 30, 2025 21:07 IST

  Under the Chief Minister Rural Bus Facility Scheme (CMRBFS), the permits will be issued to light/medium transport motor vehicles with a seating capacity for 18 to 42 persons.

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  Maharashtra govt to give additional Rs 50K subsidy for rural homes under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana

  Maharashtra | February 23, 2025 22:28 IST

  Maharashtra: The programme operates on a demand-driven basis, allowing states and union territories to approve projects based on identified eligible beneficiaries.

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  Entire rural population of Punjab will undergo rapid test for COVID: Health minister

  India | May 19, 2021 22:37 IST

  The drive will be conducted under 'Mission Fateh 2 as part of efforts to break the chain of transmission of the coronavirus, according to an official statement.

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  Rajasthan to conduct rapid antigen tests in rural areas to check COVID spread

  India | May 12, 2021 16:06 IST

  Health Minister Raghu Sharma said on Wednesday that the rapid antigen test will be conducted in community health centres and other hospitals to check the spread of virus in rural areas.

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  I have faith in all of you: PM Modi writes personal letter to village pradhans over water crisis

  India | June 15, 2019 8:28 IST

  The PM has made a special request to the Pradhans in his one-page letter that they should convene a meeting of the gram sabha (village assembly) wherein his message should be read out.

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  Doctors should strictly serve in rural areas before getting promotion, says Vice President Venkaiah Naidu

  India | August 25, 2018 16:59 IST

  He said there was a need to increase the number of doctors available at healthcare centres in rural areas as the absence of qualified medical practitioners was making people approach quacks.

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  RBI directs banks to send 40 per cent currency to rural branches

  January 03, 2017 17:05 IST

  Stressing that the supply of currency notes in rural areas was not adequate, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) today directed banks to send at least 40 per cent currency to their rural branches. "The

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  MIT team develops inexpensive water treatment device for rural India

  World | July 21, 2016 22:56 IST

  Boston: A team of scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a solar-powered, inexpensive prototype which could provide clean drinking water for Indian villages. The new system could solve drinking problem of

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  India to soon launch Rs 1,800 Digital Literacy Mission for 60 million people in rural areas

  June 27, 2016 13:46 IST

  India will soon launch a Digital Literacy Mission worth Rs 1,800 crore for 60 million people in rural areas.

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  This Man Raised 1 Crore To Build Schools For Kids In Rural Areas And You Will Be Surprised To Know How

  Mouthful | April 17, 2016 14:54 IST

  Mumbai: The fundamental problem with most of us today is that we want to do so much for ourselves as well as others but most often than not, get stuck in the execution and implementation

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  People's participation important to reform rural areas: PM Modi

  Politics | February 08, 2016 16:20 IST

  New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today pitched for people's involvement to bring about a change in rural areas as he interacted with over 200 youth working in these areas under a national scheme.Modi invited

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  PM Modi shows keen interest in using Tesla's power ball technology

  World | September 27, 2015 14:58 IST

  San Jose: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today visited Tesla Motors campus and showed keen interest in some of their path breaking inventions, particularly in the renewable energy sector which can have multiple applications in remote

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  India's Real Skills Challenge: 263 Million Farm Workers

  India | August 03, 2015 13:00 IST

  54% working population engaged in farms as cultivators and labourers.Low skills pushing more workers to become agricultural labourers.Only 2% (nearly 9 million) Indian workers formally skilled.The Prime Minister's Skill Development Mission (Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas

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  6 Hurdles to building 44,000 homes a day

  India | July 18, 2015 17:46 IST

  Less than seven years are left for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitious Housing for All scheme aimed at providing a home to all the urban poor by 2022—especially as cities grow and migrants flow in

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  Money For Rural India From Delhi Triples

  India | June 19, 2015 15:08 IST

  Over 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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  Medical graduates to serve in rural areas

  India | July 08, 2014 14:47 IST

  New Delhi: Medical graduates may soon have to serve for some time in rural areas as a mandatory part of their course, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said Tuesday.Replying to supplementaries during Question Hour in the

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  Nabard sanctions Rs 64 cr loan for Haryana

  India | October 04, 2013 14:36 IST

  Chandigarh : Nabard has sanctioned Rs 64.16 crore for the construction of roads in rural areas of Haryana under the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund.D V Deshpande, Chief General Manager (Haryana), National Bank for Agriculture and

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  Three killed, two injured as lightning strikes rural areas

  India | September 20, 2013 9:28 IST

  Nagpur: Three people were killed and two injured in two different incidents, when lightning struck after heavy rains lashed the city and adjoining areas here yesterday evening, the police said.In the first incident, two young

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  Muzaffarnagar: Violence spreads to rural areas, people flee homes

  India | September 08, 2013 22:59 IST

  Phugela, (Muzaffarnagar, UP): With violence spreading in rural areas of this sensitive UP district, hundreds of people have been forced to flee their homes and take refuge in police stations.An eerie calm prevails in the