Devolution index released by the Ministry of Panchayati Raj assessed states & UTs on 6 parameters according to 1992 constitutional amendment for planned development of villages.
From quiet feminism in Laapataa Ladies to TVF’s smash hit Panchayat, a nostalgia-infused Indian rural landscape has found a firm footing in the world of OTT viewership.
Vinoba Bhave inspired many people to donate their land for collective ownership in the 1950s and 60s. Now, some Gramdan villages are fighting for ‘freedom’.
Panchayati raj ministry's assessing 3 villages using SVAMITVA data, which prepares geo-referenced maps of villages. It's also exploring ways to monetise data for other development projects.
The Act, which won't need to be passed by Parliament, will serve as guideline for states to formulate their own laws for rural development, with focus on gram panchayats & census towns.
Residents of the hilly Mothakkara village in Kerala’s Wayanad district had no easy access to books at the library. Then Radhamani took matters into her own hands.
Researchers mapped residents from over 26,000 villages to find that nearly 70 years on, little has changed in caste-religion-based spatial organisation in rural Karnataka.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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