Reply filed by the Director, Environment-cum-Special Secretary, Forest, Environment and Climate Change Department, Odisha and Member Secretary, Odisha Coastal Zone Management Authority, May 1, 2025. NGT, had registered suo motu in response to the news item in the Hindu, May 4, 2024 titled "Swell waves likely to strike coastal areas …
KOLKATA, 5 May: The Union ministry of rural development will launch a scheme where basic urban amenities will be provided in rural areas through the public private partnership model. The scheme will be called Provision of Urban Amenities in Rural Areas (PURA). The project will be taken up in all …
The Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) will launch a fortnight-long agitation from May 15 to protest the acute power crisis in the state. RLD state president Ram Asrey Verma said on Sunday that all district units of the party had been asked to organise dharnas, marches and public meetings to protest …
The latest Down To Earth report on how communities in Nepal have demanded their right to energy. It provides lessons for countries like India, keen on building decentralised systems and reinventing energy futures. In Nepal, lost in the chaos of political upheavals, a silent revolution is afoot. In remote villages …
The telecom min April 21: The telecom minister A. Raja on Wednesday batted for the use of green energy for running telecom towers so that mobile services could be expanded in the rural areas.
LUCKNOW: The Dussehri belt of Malihabad was in the grip of a power cut that stretched for over 28 hours. The power cut, which occurred due to a "serious fault" in the grid supply to Malihabad, occurred at 12.00pm on Thursday. Electricity supply could only be restored at 9.00pm on …
LUCKNOW: Hitting out at the Mayawati government for miserably failing in managing the power sector and rampant corruption plaguing the UP Power Corporation Ltd, chairperson of UPCC media cell Vivek Singh said that he has shot off a letter to the Centre requesting it to withhold further aid to the …
- Nandigram in another protest, land scarce for substations ANSHUMAN PHADIKAR Tamluk, March 28: Farmers in East Midnapore have refused to give land for power substations needed to electrify about 2,800 villages, demanding more than double the price being offered in some places. Among the seven substations planned in East …
Eight years after N Chandrababu Naidu scrapped the free power supply scheme to the farm sector and paid the price, the ruling Congress government is under pressure to do the same or at least regulate power supply so that other sectors are not affected. As the state reels under severe …
JAIPUR: Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Murli Deora inaugurated the Rajiv Gandhi Grameen LPG Vitarak Yojana as a national scheme for providing liquefied petroleum gas to the rural households at Lachhmangarh in Sikar district of Rajasthan on Sunday. Six dealers were selected for rural locations in the State through …
Bibhuti Barik BHUBANESWAR: The inhabitants 65 tribal families of remote Kolha village in Dhenkanal district never thought of experiencing the joy of electricity in their lifetime. But now with indigenously developed straight vegetable oil (SVO) technology, they would fulfil their long-standing desire. As the ambitious Rajiv Gandhi Gramin Vidyutikaran Yojana …
EVEN as the budget appears to have some benefits for the Punjab farmers, especially in terms of direct delivery of subsidies on fertilisers, easy mobility of grain from one state to another and conservation of natural resources especially groundwater resources, the increase in excise duty on petrol and diesel will …
In this report commissioned by Christian Aid India, the Vasudha Foundation presents a clear analysis of the lack of progress in rural electrification across India. The report highlights the failure the conventional national grid approach to deliver reliable electricity supplies to rural people in India and presents a viable alternative …
PALAKKAD: Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has said that all the 1.15 lakh villages in the country will be provided electricity by 2012. Declaring Palakkad as the first total electrified district in the country at a function in Ottappalam near here on Tuesday, the Minister said that 68,000 villages …
Badal government yet to commit on footing hiked tariff for other sectors The free power regime in Punjab is set to end in the coming rabi season. Almost 13 years after it was first introduced by the then Akali government
PSERC says it will take this step if subsidy is not paid to PSEB Jangveer Singh Tribune News Service Chandigarh, January 28 Farmers in Punjab are in danger of being charged full tariff for running their tubewells from March. The Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission (PSERC) has informed the state …
