Report filed by the Additional Secretary, Local Self Government Department, Kerala in the matter of Tribunal on its own motion Suo Motu based on the report dated 26.06.2023 received from Hon’ble Justice A.V. Ramakrishna Pillai on the Present Status of Waste dump site at Cubaloor in Mangalpady Panchayat, Kasargod District, …
The Sanitation Mission expects more local bodies in the district to come up with projects for decentralised waste treatment in the wake of enhanced subsidy component by the State government for compost units and biogas plants. The State government has hiked the subsidy component for various types of compost units …
A series of multi-stakeholder dialogues on health care for women and children organised at five district headquarters in Rajasthan over the past month addressed the issues of “weak supply side” and lack of coordination among different government agencies for framing robust district-level health plans. Demands raised by the village panchayats …
Law Ministry Will Hold Consultations On Ways To Expedite Green Nod New Delhi: The law ministry will hold a meeting of all departments concerned on November 8 to find a solution to expedite green clearances for road projects. The meeting has been convened after the environment ministry flagged that any …
In an effort to ease the drawing of electricity from main grids, the District Panchayat administration is to set up solar-powered street lights to lit public places in semi-urban and rural areas across 13 blocks in the district at an estimated total outlay of Rs.45.5 lakh. District panchayat chairman M. …
One recurrent complaint that emerged during a recent public hearing of the NCPCR was the poor state of infrastructure in schools and hostels in the hinterland. A study of about 50 panchayat schools brought out by People’s Watch in 10 districts served as a sample. Activists deposed that majority of …
VASCO: With the October 31 deadline set by South Goa Collector to clear garbage within 10 kms of Dabolim airport to prevent bird-hits fast approaching, four South Goa panchayats on Friday requested Mormugao Municipal Council (MMC) to pick up their garbage till they make alternate arrangements. At a meeting, the …
The land acquisition row in Greater Noida is set for another revival with farmers from 20-25 villages of the region moving the Supreme Court to get their land back. These farmers had parted with their plots when the Greater Noida Authority (GNA) came asking for it under an urgency clause, …
Collector Rajendra Ratnoo has redoubled the efforts to transform Cuddalore into a “zero-waste” district before January 2013. He has started propagating the message in all the panchayats, town panchayats and municipalities. Addressing the meeting of the panchayat presidents and representatives of the Self-Help Groups at Panruti near here on Tuesday, …
District has outstripped state average in number of bio-fuel plants Bijapur can be counted as one of the few districts in the country to have taken up the cultivation of bio-fuel plants in a big way. Some 64.7 lakh saplings of bio-fuel plants have been planted on large tracts of …
BHUBANESWAR: An independent study on nutrition status in Odisha’s Rayagada district has revealed that a whopping 75 per cent children face stunting, thanks to acute malnutrition. The study findings showed that the share of severely wasted children indicates a serious humanitarian crisis, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) classifications, …
Ranchi, Oct. 15: The agriculture department today became the first state government wing to delegate financial and administrative powers to panchayati raj institutions, about two years after the Arjun Munda government conducted rural polls in Jharkhand. Defining the jurisdictions of elected village bodies, the state cabinet made it clear that …
Draft Cabinet note on NIB not sent to me, he says Infrastructure projects that come up on forest land must comply with the Forest Rights Act (FRA), Union Tribal Affairs Minister Kishore Chandra Deo has said. No land in a Fifth Schedule area should be handed over to any industry …
First State to form BMCs The government has formally declared the constitution of Biodiversity Management Committees in all the 978 grama panchayats, 60 municipalities, and the five Corporations in Kerala, signalling the shift to a broad-based system for the conservation of biological resources. Addressing the media after a Cabinet meeting …
Hazaribagh, Oct. 9: A herd of 20 elephants is giving sleepless nights to residents of two villages in Giridih’s Dumri block. The pachyderms, which have come from Dumka, damaged 27 houses in the past two days and destroyed standing corps, forcing villagers to send away women and children to adjoining …
A meeting of the Endosulfan Relief and Remediation Cell here on Tuesday decided to hold a panchayat-level sitting by health and panchayat officials by November 15 before publishing the final list of victims of the pesticide in the district. The final list is expected to clear the confusion over who …
A voluntary organisation of residents has contributed a handsome sum for the improvement of Chitlapakkam lake, a 50-acre water body near Tambaram. The lake has been at the core of a movement by activists and residents who have been fighting for its protection for over a decade. The S.V.V Trust …
The Nirmal Bharat Yatra “to make the country open-defecation-free and to ensure proper sanitation in rural India” began on Friday from Sevagram in Wardha district of Maharashtra in presence of the Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh. The Yatra has been organised by Wash United and Quicksand Design Studio jointly …
Toilets are more important in India than temples, Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh said here on Friday, as he inaugurated a yatra that will travel through states raising awareness about sanitation. “Sixty-four per cent of Indians defecate in open spaces, which is a global record. It is now …
Two projects to be implemented at a cost of Rs.149 crore The Water Resources Department is gearing up to launch two comprehensive drinking water projects in the district at a cost of Rs.149 crore by utilising water from the Karapuzha reservoir. The first project, to be implemented at a cost …
With an outlay of Rs 117,707 crore for women and child development, including Rs 108,503 crore for flagship nutrition programme ICDS, the 12th plan document stresses on the need for convergent action across ministries. It sets clear targets for multi-sectoral action for women and children, taking it out of the …
