Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
GUNTUR, Jan. 4: Proposals for the development and expansion of the Uppalapadu bird sanctuary in Pedakakani mandal of Guntur district is pending for more than one year. The Uppalapadu bird sanctuary is the only sanctuary in the district. Spread over nine acres of land the bird sanctuary provides refuge to …
Guntur, Dec. 10: Villagers of Mothadaka, Nidumukkala, LG Pudi and Pedaparimi of Tadikonda mandal in Guntur district are panicky over the prowling of two leopards for the past 10 days. The villagers, mostly farmers, go to farms for various purposes. They are surrounded by cotton, chilli, paddy, green gram, maize, …
Guntur, Nov. 18: The paper mills have agreed to purchase su-babul and eucalyptus trees from farmers in the district from November 20 by offering support price fixed by the state. The district collector, Mr B. Venkatesam, and the joint-collector, Mr Kantilal Dande, on Tuesday convened a meet with the representatives …
Guntur, Oct. 12: Despite being blessed with monuments, ancient Buddhist sites, bird sanctuaries, temples and beaches, the district is unable to attract more tourists because of lack of basic amenities. Neither the tourism department nor the state government has bothered to take steps to provide basic facilities such as restaurants, …
The quantitative analysis of agricultural production systems has become an important step in the formulation of agricultural policy. A number of empirical studies have attempted to investigate producer responsiveness to product and input price changes, to estimate economics of scale, to assess the relative efficiency, and to measure the impact …
Hyderabad, Sept. 21: Biological heritage sites in the state are facing serious threats because of the upcoming Special Economic Zones (SEZs) and thermal power plants. Wildlife experts are concerned about the deathblow to the bird preservation sites in the state due to the units. Sites such as the Naupada swamp, …
Guntur, Sept. 3: The district collector, Mr B. Venkatesam, on Wednesday said there would be no scarcity of fertilisers in the district with the beginning of the arrival of stocks to railway yard, Nehru Nagar in Guntur. The collector made a surprise check of fertiliser stocks being received at the …
Central Tobacco Research Institute, an organization of Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR), is an apex research body for tobacco in India. Multi disciplinary programmes of CTRI have helped in evolving high yielding cultivars of tobacco, quality up gradation thereby improving the farmers' economics & enhancing tobacco exports.
Hyderabad, July 23: It will be a double bonanza for farmers and their children. While irrigation projects under the Jalayagnam banner will help the farmers to draw water, the state tourism department's initiative to develop tourism centres at the irrigation project sites will help the wards of the farmers earn …
Hyderabad, July 13: Release of water to ayacut under Nagarjunasagar Project appears uncertain throwing agricultural operations in 22 lakh acres haywire. For the first time in the last four years, the irrigation department is not in a position to announce when the water is likely to be released in both …
June 12: Tigers are a rarity and spiders are dime a dozen. That has not prevented some forest officials from preferring the latter at the expense of the former. The Nagarjunasagar Srisailam Tiger reserve (Rajiv Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary) has been witnessing a steep fall in the number of big tigers …
The state government on Wednesday decided to continue the controversial cloud seeding operations for another five years. Tenders have been called to select the company which will conduct the operations. A top official said that there was actually no scientific reason for continuing the programme but added that there was
The Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, will lay the foundation stone for modernisation of delta at Puligadda village in Avanigadda constituency on June 6. The government has undertaken the works of modernising the canals and drains in Krishna and Guntur districts with an estimated cost of Rs 4,500 crore …
Hardly a month is left for the arrival of thousands of birds from Siberia and other parts of the world to Uppalapadu bird sanctuary in Guntur district but the renovation and repair works at the sanctuary are going at a snail's pace. Funds crunch is one of the main reasons …
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy assured farmers ravaged by the fire accident at the Agricultural Market Yard premises on Saturday that the State Government was committed to give complete compensation to farmers. "Every paisa that they had lost would be accounted for and repaid after the process of …
PIPED drinking water of good quality may be a dream for many of India's citizens but not for those in Guntur. Here 85 per cent of the people get treated water in abundance at their doorsteps. It is probably one of the few cities in the country that has multiple …
The Guntur Municipal Corporation leaves no stone unturned to ensure the city's all-round growth. THE Municipal Corporation of Guntur dreams big for the residents of the city, which has a more than 200-year-old history. It has achieved many firsts in its relatively brief existence of less than 20 years. The …
Stating that the recent unseasonal heavy rains were so rare that they occurred only the third time in the last 100 years, Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy announced a "special package' to liberally assist farmers whose crops were damaged in 11 districts of the State. The cash compensation allowed on …
a recent study of Andhra Pradesh's Guntur district, which shows that the number of hiv/aids patients in India could be an overestimate, has been called "unrealistic' by the Union ministry of health and family welfare (mohfw). The number of such patients in India has long been a controversy. The ministry …
Small and marginal farmers are the worst hit by the problems that afflict agriculture. The macro and micro level factors together have created stress among the poor farmers forcing them to commit suicide.
