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, …
ON APRIL 17, the temperature of Delhi stood at a record 43.7 degree Celsius, the highest in 52 years. The Friday before that, the maximum temperature was the highest in 29 years. In November 2006, Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit observed that the sparrow population of Delhi seemed to be mysteriously …
Health interventions initiated by community-based organisations like self help groups and Panchayati raj can be scaled up effectively only if the government ensures that the most vulnerable communities get these services. Speaking at a national conference on
The Uttarakhand Forest Department has drafted a new plan to tackle the menace of forest fires in the State, while at the same time, providing employment to the youth of the State. According to the State principal chief conservator of Forests (PCCF) Dr RBS Rawat, the Forest Department will deploy …
BHUBANESWAR: While the State Government is in the process of taking the e-governance initiative to grassroots level of the administration through computerisation of gram panchayat (GP) offices, now efforts are on to create gram panchayat database management facility centres at each block headquarters. The objective of the centre is to …
The in-charge minister of Hoshangabad district Vijendra Pratap Singh today inaugurated the district level Jal Yatra and Jal Sammelan at village Viavara. On this occasion he exhorted the participants to make the Jalabhishek Abhiyan a mass movement. Public partnership should be ensured at a large scale for this purpose. We …
DHENKANAL: Malaria has broken out in predominantly tribal Sorisapada gram panchayat (GP) of Gondia block in Dhenkanal district. Sources said the disease has claimed four kids in the past one week though official sources confirmed only one death. The victims are Sanju Gagarai (1), Bada Soren (2), Raimani Tiu (1) …
The Jalabhishek Abhiyan bas been specially focused this year on recharging of dried up rivers, nullahs and reservoirs. On this these, jal yatras will be taken out throughout the state for recharging of dried up water sources. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will launch the statewide campaign at Ratlam by …
DURGAPUR/KOLKATA, 7 APRIL: Police fired in the air and lobbed teargas shells to disperse a group of protesters today in front of the Khandra panchayat office in Andal PS area, about 12 km from Durgapur. The villagers protested against alleged corrupt practices of the panchayat and shortage of drinking water …
Pune Eight sarpanchs, 21 deputy sarpanchs and 276 gram sabha members could be asked to step down For sarpanch Kachru Tanhu Padwal from Chandivalli, in Mulshi taluka, it may be an untimely exit from his post this year. The reason: not constructing the mandatory toilet block under the sanitation programme …
The government has decided to implement MNREGA in the hill state on a massive scale to ensure that its benefits reached the maximum number of people. Stating this while presiding over the meeting of the Thadi panchayat in the Mashobra block, Rural Development Minister Jai Ram Thakur said the government …
State government is planning to implement spot fine on residential people for developing civic sense for better clean and green environment in Major cities as well as small and medium towns at Municipal Corporation and Municipal Panchayats level. In this fine would be collected for open sanitation and open garbage …
Nearly 43 lakh children drop out of govt schools in last 5 years Even as the Right to Education Act comes into force in the country yesterday, the Mid-day meal scheme, an ambitious scheme of the previous Congress-led regime under PV Narsimha Rao, has failed to attract children to government …
The Jalabhishek Abhiyan being conducted for water conservation and augmentation in the state has assumed proportions of information technology since help of SMSes is being taken in this work now. Minister for Panchayats & Rural Development and Social Justice Gopal Bhargava has informed that the objective behind the SMS service …
The Decentralisation Community of Solution Exchange, an initiative of the United Nations in India, provides a platform for increasing our understanding of local governance-both rural and urban-through knowledge sharing and collaboration.
Khikiya: The Khirkiya Nagar Panchayat is supplying nearly 9 lakh litres of water every day in the city with a population of nearly 22 thousand people. The water supplied everyday amounts to 40 litre per person on an average, while the water necessity of a person during the summer season …
Concerned over the various complaints pouring in with regard to the quality of food given to students under the Mid-Day Meal scheme in schools, the Haryana government has entrusted the responsibility of preparation and distribution of food to self-help groups (SHGs) constituted by the rural development and panchayats and women …
BALASORE: A five-year-old boy died and 50 others have been affected by malaria in Nilagiri for the last couple of days. Panic gripped Babandh and its adjacent Kudumsahi villages under Siadimal panchayat following child Radhu Singh
Over 1,500 farmers from 16 villages took part in a panchayat held outside the Greater Noida Authority office on Sunday to decide the future course of action in their protest against the state government
