Order of the High Court of Uttarakhand (WPPIL No. 202 OF 2024 with WPPIL NO.174 OF 2024) in the matter of mining operations in Bageshwar district, Uttarakhand. The order was passed by the Chief Justice of Uttarakhand High Court Guhanathan Narendar and Justice Manoj Kumar Tiwari. In compliance with the …
International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have published a policy brief summarizing the main findings of five workshops that aimed to promote a multi-sectoral dialogue among countries on improving forest law compliance. The brief highlights lessons learned from experiences on the ground and …
A study of the displacement and resettlement due to two dams, and a protest movement against a smelting plant in Thailand brings out strikingly similar issues with those seen recently in Orissa and West Bengal
BHUBANESWAR: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today rejected the demand for Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the multi-crore mining scam. It was made by the BJP national team. Naveen said the State Vigilance is very much on the job and the progress of the inquiry is good. Dismissing the …
It is well known that government schemes and programmes meant for the poor fail due to corruption. As aspirations rise, the challenge before politicians is to deliver development. It is people as the beneficiaries of government schemes and programmes who can say where the system is working and where it …
What does Bhilwara have that the rest of rural India needs? A Member of Parliament (MP) who changes with the times. CP Joshi, Union minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, and the MP from Bhilwara, initiated the biggest social audit in India in his own constituency to find out …
There is rampant corruption in the implementation of NREGs at Urigili Gram Panchayat. An inquiry must be conducted to ascertain the facts,' said members of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme Enforcement Committee. Urging fulfilment of various demands, the members started a indefinite strike in front of the Zilla Panchayat …
BHUBANESWAR: The Bharatiya Janata Party today accused the State Government of trying to bail out the prime accused in the multi-crore mining scam. While the State Vigilance arrested Shakti Ranjan Das for illegally mining from Ram Bahadur Thakur (RBT) mines on the strength of power of attorney purported to be …
BHUBANESWAR: The Mines Directorate seems to have woken up to the occasion after the Opposition brought the multicrore mining scam to the fore. Conducting a series of raids in the Cuttack and Jajpur Road circles, the State- level enforcement squad of the directorate seized minerals worth over Rs 13.32 crore …
There has been an animated debate in the past three years over the supply of food in the ICDS (Integrated Child Development Services) programme. Supplementary nutrition has been provided to all children under the age of six since the inception of the programme more than three decades ago. This was …
CHAMARAJANAGAR: Members of the Chamarajanagar Taluk Panchayat have alleged that officials of the Watershed Development Department have misappropriated a large amount of funds under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) by executing work that was of poor quality. At a meeting here on Thursday, a member, Mahadev, requested the …
Government says enough grain stock, farmers go hungry Budhi Rikisyan sat in her house making leaf plates for the last rites of her granddaughter, Mantawa. Unable to suppress hunger pangs, the 12-year-old girl plucked surbari leaves from the field and ate them in early August. After five days she was …
Civil society and the media are unfairly blaming a government nutrition programme I have been a political journalist for over three decades. Only recently have I become familiar with the nitty gritty of development reporting. The manner in which malnutrition is covered by a section of the media has come …
AMIT AGNIHOTRI Sept. 8: In order to bring more transparency in the implementation of its flagship National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), the UPA government has directed the states to set up an ombudsman office within three months. Realising the need for an independent authority to expeditiously redress the grievances …
Sept. 1: Large-scale corruption has plagued the much-touted National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme as even employed persons apart apart from the dead are shown to be working and drawing money as per its records. Village resource persons show the name of Boni Suryanarayana who is working in the mandal office …
Aug. 30: It is touted as the flagship scheme of the Congress. But the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme has become a hub of corruption defeating the very purpose it was meant for
Probe may put Buta Singh in a fix on august 1, when the Bagmati river breached its sand embankment in Sitamarhi district, Bihar, it brought unforeseen trouble for the state
greenhouse gas emissions UK plans to go low-carbon The UK government unveiled a plan to make the country a low carbon emitter. The plan, announced by energy and climate change secretary Ed Miliband, details how the country will meet its domestic climate targets, set out under the climate change act, …
Kol tribals in Patha region of Chitrakut district (Uttar Pradesh) have taken a big step forward in exposing the corruption which prevents the benefits of various government schemes from reaching them. Patha Kol Adhikar Manch (PKAM), an organisation of tribals active for several years has taken the lead in this …
