Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Comptroller and Auditor General Shashi Kant Sharma has ordered audit of the flood control measures and the drainage system in the capital on priority basis. The decision to audit the working of flood control mechanism in Delhi was taken in “view of the recent heavy rains which caused serious traffic …
The report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) for the year ending 31 March 2012 said the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA) could not achieve guaranteed wage employment due to improper planning in the perspective plan. The MGNREGA guarantees employment for more than three …
Only 9.03 per cent of the registered households in Assam were provided with 100 days employment from 2007 to 2012 The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has found several discrepancies and irregularities in the implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in the Congress-ruled North-Eastern state of …
Eligibility criteria relaxed for Jindal Steel & Power, say officials Though Coal Ministry is planning to take action against both private and public sector companies for not developing the coal blocks allocated to them over the past few years, it is learnt that some of these coal mines may have …
This Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India contains the results of performance audit of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in Assam.The audit was conducted through test check of the records of the Commissioner of Panchayat and Rural Development and field level implementing agencies …
In a move that would impact Adani Mining, Moser Baer, Vedanta, Monnet Ispat and the Jaypee Group among others, the government is set to consider a proposal to put restrictions on public-private joint ventures (JVs) for developing mineral blocks, particularly coal mines, allocated to state-run corporations and PSUs under a …
The advance warning came from the regional centre of India Meteorological Department (IMD) in Dehradun on June 13. The department predicted "heavy to very heavy rainfall in the upper regions of Uttarakhand in the next 48 to 72 hours". None of the agencies tasked with disaster management, either in Delhi …
The Himalayas are depicted in popular iconography as the tough guys who stand tall—tallest, actually—protecting the subcontinent from invasions, both human and climatic. They command the monsoon clouds to rain over the subcontinent, bringing sustenance. There is just one little, but crucial, error in this imagery. The Himalayas are anything …
Even as the Uttarakhand floods brought to the fore debate over the strength of dams, there are over 4,500 such structures in the country which are operating without an 'emergency action plan'. This renders a huge area and property vulnerable to cascading effects of dam failure. The Central Water Commission …
The state government has constituted a high-powered committee to review implementation of the Guwahati solid waste management project, which appears grounded at present. That the project, being implemented in public-private partnership (PPP) mode, is currently in doldrums is clearly indicated by the heaps of stinking garbage that have become a …
In the wake of the devastation in Uttarakhand, the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament Monday discussed a Comptroller and Auditor General report on ‘Disaster Preparedness in India’ and found major deficiencies in the disaster management system. It found, for instance, that NDMA’s National Executive Committee had not met even once …
Goa state pollution control board (GSPCB) has issued around 2,000 showcause notices to industries and hotels till Monday for operating without consent under the Water Act and Air Act. As per the GSPCB statistics, there are over 2,300 industrial units and over 2,500 hotels operating without consent under Water Act …
Amid delays in mine allocations in the wake of controversies shrouding the sector, coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal on Friday announced the government would allocate 14 coal blocks to state-run firms within a week. "I am happy to announce that the coal blocks allocation to government firms (14 mines) will be …
However, pricing rights to remain with state-owned monopoly Coal India The government has approved setting up a regulator for the coal sector that will prescribe principles for price determination of the fuel while pricing rights remain with state-owned monopoly Coal India. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Thursday …
When it comes to planning ahead of natural disasters, Andhra Pradesh is way behind with none of the hi-tech gadgets working and a special disaster management group non-existent, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) said in its report. In the wake of increasing controversy over helping pilgrims from …
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has cited large-scale irregularities in the implementation of irrigation projects at multiple levels when Y S Rajasekhara Reddy (YSR) was the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh. In a report pertaining to the Rs 1.83 lakh-crore Jala Yagnyam (Water Mission) featuring 86 projects, …
As a humongous natural calamity grips Uttarakhand, it is now emerging that the state has had no disaster management plan worth its name despite being highly disaster-prone due to fragile mountains, tectonic activity and climatic events. A Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report released as recently as on April 23 …
Two former officials questioned; T.K.A. Nair’s statement to be recorded After procedural wrangles were ironed out, the CBI’s probe into Coalgate has now reached the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) and its officials. Investigators have recorded statements of two former PMO officials, questioning them as witnesses in the questionable allocation of …
'Make Karnataka open defecation-free by 2018' Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday expressed disappointment over the poor condition of sanitation in the State and set 2018 as the deadline for the Karnataka government to make state free of open defecation. Briefing reporters after holding a review meeting of …
The state has got Rs 2,133 cr for 2013-14 under the scheme Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh on Friday announced a bumper for Karnataka on his maiden visit to the state after Congress took over the reins a month ago. The minister has announced 49 per cent rise …
