Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Rajaram Vs State of Haryana dated 27/05/2025. By the execution application, the applicant was seeking compliance of the NGT order July 5, 2024 passed in OA No. 735/2024. In the OA, the applicant has raised the grievance in respect of …
The West Bengal Government has sought the termination of NHPC (formerly known as the National Hydro Power Corporation) as an implementing agency for the rural electrification project at the Purilia district of the State. The rural electrification work in the area was being carried out under the Rajiv Gandhi Gramin …
SHILLONG: Admitting that the progress of the Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) in the State has not been upto the mark, Power Minister AT Mondal said that show cause notices have been given to the concerned contractors for the delay in commissioning of the scheme. The RGGVY scheme aims …
Is the Asia-Pacific region set to bear the onerous title of having become the disaster centre of the globe? So it would seem if one went by UNDP’s Asia-Pacific Development Report “One Planet to Share — Sustaining Human Progress in a Changing Climate”. Climate-related disasters are on the rise and …
Power Minister says in 2011-12, capacity of 20,400 Mw was added, which was much higher than projection of 17,000 Mw A mammoth 80,000 Mw power generation capacity is under construction during the 12th Five Year Plan period ending March 31, 2017, Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde told the Rajya Sabha today. …
The Maharashtra government, caught between the rising mismatch between demand and supply of power and deteriorating finances of power utilities, has introduced an amnesty scheme for payment of dues by consumers. The scheme would be applicable for the recovery of pending electricity bills for various drinking water schemes. State finance …
Fighting the elephant menace with a small electric bulb may appear strange to many, but it has become a reality in over 2,000 villages in Assam affected by the man-animal conflict where it is common to see elephant herds destroying crops, damaging houses and attacking people. According to villagers, electrification …
The objective of the Programme is to provide basic lighting facilities through renewable energy sources in those unelectrified remote census villages, unelectrified hamlets of electrified census villages where grid connectivity is either not feasible or not cost effective & not covered under Rajiv Gandhi Gramin Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) and electrified …
State Congress has claimed that 1,068 villages of the Shajapur district of the State would be illuminated with the electricity on the initiative taken by the Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi. Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee president and MP Kantilal Bhuria in a statement here on Sunday said that a sum …
Madhya Pradesh Government on Wednesday extended the tenure of the Union Carbide Toxic Gas Leak Probe Commission by an year, sources said. The term of the committee, headed by Justice SL Kocchar, was to get over on February 25, they said. The decision in this regard was taken by the …
DIBRUGARH: The Assam State Electricity Board(ASEB), under its much hyped Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification project(RREP) has provided power connection to 75 below poverty line (BPL) beneficiaries at Romai Tea Estate in Dibrugarh District recently. The additional Deputy Commissioner, P K Rajkhowa while switching on the three transformers set up for …
Distribution reforms in power sector should be accelerated for capacity addition to yield results. At a time when India has staked its claim to a seat at the high table alongside world powers, around 57% of rural households and 12% of urban households have no access to electricity. That partly …
BHUBANESWAR: Worried over the recurring incidence of electrocution, the State Government has decided to replace single and double poles with elephant-friendly electricity structures in districts where the jumbos are most vulnerable. To avoid the electrocution, narrow based lattice structures (NBLS) will be established in Dhenkanal, Angul, Keonjhar and Mayurbhanj by …
Agartala: Tripura will electrify all hamlets that have less than 100 habitants by 2013 as these settlements are not covered by the central government’s rural electrification programme, a minister said here on Monday. “The state government has asked the Tripura State Electricity Corporation Limited to identify those habitats soon,” Power …
KOLKATA, 16 JAN: In spite of the allegations of non-performance and corruption in Trinamul Congress-led Zilla Parishad, Trinamul Congress leaders are not worried. They are, in fact, confident that they would win the hearts of the rural people with the distribution of electricity in several villages by March this year. …
Bhopal : Thirty-two schemes of 34 districts of Madhya Pradesh worth Rs. 1752 crore have been sanctioned under Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification scheme. Under the scheme, 395 non-electrified villages have been electrified. Besides, intense electrification has been undertaken in 13 thousand 389 villages where free connections have been given to …
PURULIA, 4 DEC: Around 1,500 students of several primary and upper primary schools in Ayodhya hills have been studying in classrooms that do not have either electricity or proper drinking water facilities for many years now due to lack of funds. There are around 22 primary and upper primary schools …
LUCKNOW: With poll bugles about to be sounded, Uttar Pradesh is at the receiving end of state and Central doles. After the Mayawati government, earlier this week, gave its nod to the transfer policy for teachers of primary schools in the state, the Centre has also decided to not stay …
The name Indira or Rajiv Gandhi has been known to win elections in many states. Ambedkar fetches votes in Uttar Pradesh and Kamraj in Tamil Nadu. So when Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik launched a government programme named after his father, the Biju Setu Yojana, the Opposition observed that the …
A carefully-crafted mission can bring cooking fuel and electricity to the deprived households in the hinterland India can, rightfully, derive satisfaction from the success in getting the Jawaharlal Solar Energy Mission smoothly off the ground, and that too in a short period of time with competitive large-scale private participation. The …
SRINAGAR: Underlining the importance of energy efficient and up to the mark power distribution system in ensuring hassle free electricity supply to the consumers, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday laid thrust on time line completion of projects under implementation on the State. "Pace of progress on each project being …