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, …
KENDRAPARA: Though summer is yet to completely set in, Kendrapara district has begun feeling the pangs of water scarcity. The district has 1,579 villages of which, 800 are facing water problem. In the town limits, even though water comes through municipal taps, it is dirty and cannot be used for …
The State government has identified about 405 villages across the State where drinking water will be supplied through tankers this summer. The estimated cost of the project is Rs 153.91 crore and a detailed report has already been prepared by the department of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj as per …
Ranchi: Over 350 men and women under the aegis of Pani Panchayat today joined hands to give a fresh lease of life to a rivulet near Kutchery Chowk, about 60km from the state capital under Sadar police station area of Lohardaga district. Led by former MLA Sukhdeo Bhagat, they laboured …
TIRUCHI: All village panchayats in the district should start the works sanctioned under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme within a week, Collector T. Soundiah has said. Speaking at special review meetings to discuss the implementation of the scheme with village panchayat presidents of the district over the …
Present in every village, anganwadi workers have a standing that is turning them into a reforming force In the vast rural hinterland of India, a new social force has silently emerged, unlike anything ever seen before. Today, it numbers 30 lakh educated and mostly young women. In a few years, …
On 14 February, 2010 activists of the "Saal Ghaati Bachao Sangarsh Morcha" were subjected to unprovoked and armed attacks by goondas of the contractors of the Hull I hydropower project of Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh. This attack was to scare the people who had opposed this project since 2005 …
The district Collector, Akash Tripathi, has said that minimum two works based on water conservation and greenery must be started in every village panchayat based on public participation under
In days of yore, the Mararikulam brinjal was much favoured by the royal families of Travancore and Amabalapuzha in Kerala. Slender, long and green, this variety has been grown in Mararikulam on the Kerala coast for centuries. The village would supply its choicest brinjals to royalty. So, even as the …
This paper explores the possibility of a simple method for the identification of households eligible for social assistance. In exploring alternative approaches for identifying a
SATTUR: Sattur is the town that faces no drinking water problem in the entire district, said Minister for Backward Classes, K.K.S.S.R. Ramachandran, here on Thursday. The Minister, who received petitions from residents of Sattur municipal and Sattur panchayat union at a special public grievance meeting held here, said that the …
Overruling objections by prominent Central Employment Guarantee Council (CEGC) members Jean Dreze and Aruna Roy, Rural Development Minister C P Joshi on Monday said the government would go ahead and construct Rajiv Gandhi Sewa Kendras from NREGS funds. The CEGC is the apex body monitoring the job scheme. However, Joshi …
It is said that old habits die hard, but the hill state is surging ahead on the path of becoming completely free from open defecation by the end of 2010. The state had started various programmes, schemes and sanitation awareness campaign in this direction, the results of which were now …
AMIT AGNIHOTRI The UPA government is planning to provide jobs to over 2.5 lakh youth by appointing Lok Karmis in each Gram Panchayat to facilitate the implementation of its flagship MGNREGA. Besides being an interface between the workers and the various government agencies like the panchayats, banks and post offices, …
The Supreme Court cleared the way for panchayat elections in Jharkhand. On January 12, it upheld the Panchayat (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996, or pesa, that reserves 100 per cent panchayat chairpersons’ posts in tribal areas for scheduled tribes. The apex court reversed a 2005 Jharkhand high court order …
Two coastal panchayats and the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) came under heavy fire from the High Court on Tuesday for non-compliance of Court orders pertaining to CRZ violations. Taking strong cognizance of inaction by panchayats of Calangute and Candolim with respect to illegal constructions in CRZ-III, it directed …
BHUBANESWAR: Forget about remote tribal pockets and Naxal-hit areas, this gram panchayat in Bhadrak district is going without power even after six decades of Independence. Earlier, the villages under Madhapur gram panchayat under Chandabali tehasil in Bhadrak district were termed inaccessible, but even after completion of roads under PMGSY, Badasinghpur, …
