This is after BJP candidate M Raghunandan Rao lodged a complaint with the State Election Commission alleging that these employees had violated the Model Code of Conduct.
KT Rama Rao appealed to Puri to introduce a National Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme on the lines of the existing MGNREGS to help the urban poor in the country
The Forest department has been providing livelihood to residents of around 15 forest fringe villages, who were affected by the creation of Kawal Tiger Reserve (KTR)
A woman labourer of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme died of a suspected sunstroke while she was working at Sankaram village
The Niti Aayog, in its report, stated that the development of the Yadadri model of plantation was a good example of convergence of the Rural Development department and the Forest department
The women while returning from their workplace, stepped into the tank to wash their hands and legs but they failed to gauge the depth and went too far and drowned
She pointed out that union government did not create any new employment opportunities in rural areas and was not implementing existing schemes like MGNREGS
The overall allocations to the agriculture sector have been reduced from Rs 2.25 lakh in 2022-23 to Rs 1.75 lakh crore in 2023-24, marking a reduction by around Rs 50,000 crore
The dharna sites reverberated with the slogans against Narendra Modi government for trying to create hurdles to the implementation of welfare schemes and halt the development of the state.