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  Punjab Panchayat elections: Voting underway for posts of 'sarpanch' and 'panch'

  India | October 15, 2024 9:49 IST

  Punjab 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 | 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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  People in no-toilet villages indirectly consuming excreta: Government

  India | January 04, 2015 14:22 IST

  New 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

  Politics | June 30, 2012 20:03 IST

  Agartala, 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 | April 14, 2011 7:46 IST

  Mumbai, 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