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 …
Powerloom weavers in Somanur and nearby areas are exploring options that will give them financial support to go in for solar energy. P. Kumarasamy, secretary of the Coimbatore District Job Working Powerloom Unit Owners’ Association, told The Hindu on Wednesday that just a handful of powerloom weavers in the district …
Keeping in view the growth potential of renewable energy and its growing importance for the economy, the Comptroller and Auditor General is set to conduct an all India performance audit of the new and renewable energy sector. In order to take all the stakeholders into account before the performance audit, …
In the first phase, it has sanctioned a loan of Rs 113.70 crore to the state government for construction of 354 roads stretching 510 Kms and 22 bridges of 424 meters The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has allocated Rs 900 crore for various rural and agricultural …
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development has sanctioned Rs 175 crore to the Gujarat government for an irrigation project in Mehsana district in northern part of the state. The money has been sanctioned under the bank's Rural Infrastructure Development Fund-XIX for "construction of Narmada Main Canal-based Lift irrigation". …
The loan will be used for 21 road and 14 drinking water projects in Haryana National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development has sanctioned a loan of Rs 238.65 crore for 21 road and 14 drinking water projects in Haryana. Stating this, NABARD (Haryana), Chief General Manager, D V Deshpande, …
Scheme will be launched in December, will benefit 75% rural and 50% urban dwellers The Maharashtra government would launch the United Progressive Alliance’s ambitious food security scheme from December in the state. Of the state's 112 million population, 70 million beneficiaries would be covered under the scheme. The government proposes …
Scheme will be launched in December, will benefit 75% rural and 50% urban dwellers About 70 million of the 112 million residents of Maharashtra will be covered under the UPA's ambitious food security scheme, when the state launches the programme in December. The state government proposes to replace the yellow, …
Nabard Funding For Kanjikode Power Project Fails To Materialise Thiruvananthapuram: Solar power projects, it seems, are not having a smooth run even under the aegis of the state electricity board. After its efforts to source financial assistance for a 1 MW grid-connected solar power generation unit at Kanjikode in Palakkad …
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today gave in principle approval to projects worth Rs 660 crore in the state for the current fiscal under various Nabard schemes. The decision was taken by the Chief Minister at a high-level meeting with a seven-member Nabard team led by its regional chief general …
Poly Houses Would Enable Round-The-Year Cultivation Of Vegetables The state government’s drive to encourage hitech farming has found favour among more than 1,125 new generation farmers, who have come forward to sign up for precision farming. The new breed of farmers, mostly young, hopes to harness latest technologies in precision …
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has conducted a detailed consultation with the farming community of six villages in Tawang district, bordering China to start horticulture farms under Tribal Development Fund (TDF) programme. Delhi Based NGO InsPIRE Network for Enviornment (INE) and Yuva Arunachal have prepared a proposal …
State Minister for Water Conservation Nitin Raut says the government will have to make major policy corrections to tackle the water crisis, which is not just confined to drought in 15 districts of the state. Raut also points out it is time the government came up with a comprehensive water …
State water resources minister P J Joseph said that only 30% Keralites have access to pipe water and to rectify this issue, the water resources department will lay many pipelines so that 50% of people living in the state have access to drinking water. “We have initiated 153 drinking water-related …
GUWAHATI: Floods and erosion are a perennial problem in Assam that have wreaked havoc on the people of the State, especially in rural areas and who live by the Brahmaputra and its tributaries. Over the last few years, demands from several quarters have been increasing to get the problem of …
After commissioning regulator-cum-bridge across Thejaswini A Rs. 50-crore project to assist localities that face drinking water shortage in Thrikkaripur due to intrusion of saline water will be commissioned shortly, said K. Kunhiraman, MLA. The project would be realized after commissioning the regulator-cum-bridge across the Thejaswini that would link Kayoor-Chemeni pachayath …
The authorities will soon commission an Rs 50-crore water supply project in Thrikaripur Assembly constituency in Kasaragod district to address the drinking water shortage in many panchayaths there due to saline water intrusion said K Kunhiraman, MLA. "The water supply project, which is part of the regulator-cum-bridge across Thejaswini River, …
Loans Clubbed To Seek Benefit Pune: The reaudited report of the National Bank for Rural and Agricultural Development (Nabard) on the Rs 52,000-crore agriculturaldebt waiver and debt relief scheme (2008), shows that loan amounts of about 3,000 farmers from Kolhapur, who owed Rs 2 lakh each, were waived when the …
The Annual Credit Plan (ACP) for Namakkal District for the financial year 2013-14 at an outlay of Rs. 2,565 crore that will cover 10,93,364 borrowers in the priority sectors was released by District Collector D. Jagannathan here on Tuesday. He said that the targeted credit for this year is Rs. …
The state will get Rs 700-crore loan from National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) for the current financial year to give a fillip to agriculture, healthcare, communication and irrigation facilities. This was disclosed by the Chief Secretary, J&K;, Mohammad Iqbal Khandey, while chairing a meeting of the committee …
Of this, Rs 6,072 cr had gone to agriculture sector. Nabard had pumped Rs 7,881 crore in Madhya Pradesh state rural refinances through its various promotional initiatives during 2012-13. Of this, Rs 6,072 crore had gone to agriculture sector to boost investment credit and capital, form mechanisation, minor irrigation, rural …
