The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
GANDHINAGAR: After successfully completing the e-gram project of providing basic IT connectivity to all the district, taluka and village panchayats, the Gujarat government is now all set to launch a comprehensive e-panchayat project in order to create a complete database and monitor all the activities taken up in the rural …
Under the Mukhyamantri Peyajal Yojna, a sum of Rs. 32 crore 59 lakh was sanctioned for 29 tap-water scheme from B.R.G.F at the district planning committee meeting chaired by Minister of State for Home, Jail and Transport Narayan Singh Kushwah at Shivpuri the other day. At the meeting, progress of …
BEHRAMPORE, 16 JUNE: The adage that necessity is the mother of invention is apt for Kajisha, a gram panchayat at Beldanga in Murshidabad. The gram panchayat, with a cluster of villagers, has turned out to be a rare bit of rural Bengal by setting a precedence: to rope in a …
Shimla: The Mid-Himalayan Watershed Development Project will be extended to 102 more panchayats with the World Bank (WB) agreeing in principle to provide $45 million to cover the areas left out at the micro-watershed level and consolidation of the first phase to improve sustainability. The proposal for the extension of …
Nearly 100 reverse osmosis plants in three dists non-functional Geetanjali Gayatri Kaithal: Three years after they were given the go-ahead by the Haryana Government, most of the state
Contaminated water of the Surinsar lake, mixed with animal waste, is being supplied to more than 30 villages of the Dansal block in the Kandi belt of Jammu district comprising a population of more than 25,000. Though the authorities have
With a view to providing all required healthcare facilities to pregnant women and infants free of cost, UPA and National Advisory Council chairperson Sonia Gandhi launched an ambitious scheme, Rashtriya Janani-Shishu Suraksha Karyakram here today. Patterned on the Janani Suraksha Yojana already operational in Haryana, the scheme has been adopted …
Maharashtra government has made it compulsory to have a toilet at home for getting admission in junior colleges in the rural areas. The students who don
DINDIGUL: More than 1,000 persons from Kosavapatti and Padiyur villages thronged the Collectorate here on Friday demanding immediate action against rampant illegal sand mining at Varattaru river near their villages. Both villages have been facing acute drinking water crisis owing to massive lifting of sand from the river, they charged. …
A committee of growers and officials of irrigation and revenue departments will be constituted to look into water shortage at the tail-end of Veeho wah, Pandhro wah, Ali Nawaz wah and Faiz Ganj wah. The formation of the committee was decided by the DCO Khairpur in a meeting held with …
Over six thousand tribals living on the Bondaparavat, a longpatch of mountainous terrains under Khariput block in the northeast of Machhakunda river in Orissa
SHILLONG, The Meghalaya Government is planning to implement a Rs 3,000-crore project to improve the living conditions of the people of rural areas. Addressing a press conference here on Monday, Chief Minister Mukul Sangma said,
AJMER: Altogether 586 villages in Ajmer district have been identified as a water-crisis zone where the drinking water problem has made life miserable for the villagers. In 193 villages, the PHED has started supplying water and gave assurance to cover the rest in the coming days. As mercury shoots up …
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Wednesday approved an outlay of Rs.1,255 crore for upgradation of water supply and sewerage works in the State. Of this, Rs.567 crore would be spent for improvement of drinking water supply facilities in rural areas. He was presiding over the first meeting of …
Congress unhappy with Bill that seeks to divert water meant for agriculture The hasty passing of The Maharashtra Water Resources Regulatory Authority (amendment) Bill, 2011 late last Wednesday in the State assembly has given rise to fresh animosity between the ruling coalition partners, the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party …
Sounding alarm bells against over-extraction of groundwater for irrigation and allied purposes, the Planning Commission has asked the government not to sanction any fresh irrigation projects unless the existing ones were completed. It has suggested to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that rational pricing of water and electricity be introduced and …
All rural households have access to piped water supply in adequate quantity with a metered tap connection providing safe drinking water, throughout the year, that meets prevalent national drinking water standards, leading to healthy and well nourished children and adults and improved livelihoods and education. Continuous uninterrupted water supply is …
In many Indian villages, women and children spend a large part of the day fetching water over long distances. This is despite the Centre’s policy to provide drinking water to all rural habitations. The government set deadlines for providing 100 per cent drinking water cover to the country’s 1.6 million …
BHUBANESWAR: The State's performance in rural drinking water supply has improved significantly. After lagging behind the target for two consecutive years, the performance in 200910 is quite encouraging. As per the latest data, the State has covered around 9,777 rural habitations under the National Rural Water Supply Programme against the …
