State airs grievances over share of Narmada Water
Madhya Pradesh has registered its opposition with Narmada Water Dispute Tribunal for neglecting interest of the State in benefits from Narmada river water share among partner States. Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh has registered its opposition with Narmada Water Dispute Tribunal for neglecting interest of the State in benefits from Narmada river water share among partner States. Madhya Pradesh
Taking serious note of the observation of experts Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has mooted several urgent steps to restructure and improve the work ratio under National Rural Employment Generation Scheme. The NREG expert and professor of economics Jean Dreze during his recent visit to the State had placed Bihar as one of the worst performing States in the country.
The Ministry of Railways is planning a special scheme to improve connectivity in far flung areas of the country. Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee said here on Thursday that she would soon write to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to launch Pradhan Mantri Gram Rail Yojana. This would be on the lines of the existing Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana.
Union External Affairs Minister SM Krishna said on Thursday that China had assured a hydel dam it was building on river Brahmaputra will have no impact on the downstream flow of the river into India and China also will not store water.
Bhopal gas tragedy victims on Thursday accused the Madhya Pradesh Government of concealing facts, and said it continued to deny publicly that 16,000 people had died in the aftermath of the tragedy and 5,000 women were widowed.
On the eve of census of the Asiatic lion population in Gir forest beginning later this week, the State wildlife officials are confident that the new, modern methods adopted this time would reduce the margin of counting errors.
The first ever National People's Audit on Special Economic Zones in the country found the current SEZ policy unconstitutional and unsustainable, and demanded that it be scrapped.
The Centre, on Tuesday, blamed the banks for non-achievement of annual targets of the poverty alleviation programme, Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana. The SGSY is a credit-cum-subsidy scheme. While subsidy is only a minor and enabling component, credit is an important component of the scheme that envisages involvement of the banking sector.
Kolkata is among the most polluted cities, ranked alongside Cairo and Delhi, a World Bank study reveals. This is notwithstanding the fact that more people are affected by pollution in Kolkata than in the other cities of India on account of the density of population.
In spite of crores of rupees being spent on the construction of the Parsari Joshimath Potable Water Project, the residents of Joshimath continued to face shortage of water.
A meeting was held at the Collectorate hall to review preparations for Pulse Polio campaign in Dehradun scheduled to be organised on April 25. District Magistrate D Senthil Pandiyan presided over the meeting.