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 …
Over 35,000 habitations have been connected with all weather roads and over 1,90,000 km existing rural roads have been upgraded/renewed since Bharat Nirman was launched The UPA-2 repor June 1: The UPA-2 report card released on Tuesday said that as part of the social welfare measures of the government, the …
The Chief Minister's drinking water scheme will soon be implemented in all villages with a population of 1000 and 500 for making available drinking water in these villages. Priority will be given to villages of predominantly populated by scheduled caste and scheduled tribe while implementing this scheme. Public Health Engineering …
Solan: With little check on the distribution of water, residents of Garkhal and its surrounding areas near Kasauli have been made to go without water for days together. Though the long dry spell had reduced the water level in the natural sources reducing its availability to almost once a week, …
NEW DELHI: Concerned at the depletion of level of ground water and general water scarcity in Meghalaya, the Union Ministry of Rural Development has released a grant-in-aid of Rs 31.41 crore to the State for 2010-11 to mitigate the problem. The release has been made for execution and completion of …
women in Bikhnatori village in Bihar are jubilant they no longer have to walk hours to fetch water. For the first time since Independence, the border village is getting potable water supply. The Bihar government started supplying 3,000 litres of water daily through a tanker from March 25. Down To …
The Centre will constitute two high-level working groups on drinking water supply and sanitation to formulate strategic plans for the remaining two years of the ongoing 11th Five Year Plan and next two Plan periods. Officials said improved infrastructure in the rural areas will check migration from rural to urban …
This paper attempts an analysis of efficiency variation in health system performance in Karnataka. By using the stochastic frontier technique, it provides an idealised yardstick to evaluate the performance of the health sector. Carried out in two stages of estimation, the results of our model, using district-level panel data, indicate …
As many as 236 villages in 13 districts of the State have been reeling under acute drinking water shortage. A sum of Rs 19 crore has been released to supply water through tankers to these villages. Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister Jagadeesh Shettar said on Thursday said that depletion …
AMIT AGNIHOTRI NEW DELHI Now the Samajwa di Party has joined the race to show concern for the backward Bundelkhand region in Uttar Pradesh. Sources said this was an attempt by the SP to pick up an issue with both the Congress and the BSP, who are already locked in …
NABARANGPUR: An amount Rs 100 crore will be spent under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) during the current financial year in the district and 64.54 lakh mandays created. This was informed by Collector Roopa Mishra during a review meeting here recently. Commerce and Transport Secretary and nodal …
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 …
With more than 1.51 lakh habitations being affected by contaminated water and over 38 per cent of the rural population defecating in the open, the Centre will review the implementation of related development schemes with Rural Development Secretaries of the States and Union Territories during a two-day conference beginning in …
BHUBANESWAR: The summer is taking its toll in Orissa. While over a 100 are reported to have fallen to sunstroke, acute shortage of water has emerged as the big worry for people in rain shadow and interior areas of the State. With a relentless heatwave across the districts throwing normal …
Sitting in the front yard of his hut, Babarao Turankar, 50, and his neighbours in Mangi village of south Yavatmal are engaged in deep discussion. Finally, one of them says,
THATTA, April 30: Hundreds of people, including women, carrying empty utensils, took out a procession here on Friday against the taluka municipal administration and slammed the persisting water shortage here on Friday. The participants belonged to Hamati Village, Nareja Village, Shah Latif Colony, Christian Colony, Civil Hospital Colony, Dars Village, …
