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 …
Unclean drinking water has become the bane of doctors and patients alike at Sadar Hospital in Ranchi. Supplied by the drinking water and sanitation department, the yellowish liquid that comes out of taps has prompted relatives of patients either to buy bottled water or go around looking for clean water …
Jharkhand wants the Centre’s go-ahead for forest diversion to set up 17 CRPF camps in Saranda, even though forest clearance authority lies with the state and the move is only expected to delay the process of setting up security hubs in the saal reserve. Sources said in a letter last …
Ranchi, Feb. 15: Deputy chief minister Sudesh Mahto today approved the proposal for setting up an environment directorate — which is expected to lessen the state forest department’s dependence on the Union ministry — in Ranchi. Mahto, who holds the forest and environment portfolio, pointed out that he had raised …
IIM-Ranchi is getting ready to partner the state to conduct a study on the availability of drinking water in rural and urban areas, a move that could pave the way for more cooperation in ensuring better public amenities. The management cradle would be conducting an “impact assessment of drinking water …
Prompt payment through bank; corruption eliminated; in fact, some workers have a saving. They are all manual workers earning Rs. 100 daily under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and some of them have a bank balance — no matter how small — made possible because of their …
A routine road trip from Ranchi to Dhanbad was enough for an aghast senior functionary of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to pull up Jharkhand for illegal mining and exploitation of tribals at the hands of the coal mafia. A source told The Telegraph that NHRC secretary-general Rajiv Sharma had …
For the first time, 500 NREGS workers have drawn their wages in January utilising the UIDAI Adhaar, a micro ATM, and biometric data. The pilot project, to ensure transparency and timely disbursal of wages, has been welcomed by villages. Launched simultaneously at Meru in Hazaribagh and Ratu in Ranchi on …
Ranchi, Jan. 29: Get prepared to pay an extra buck for quenching your thirst with running tap water.. The drinking water and sanitation department has asked the urban development department to revise water supply taxes — recommending a 40 per cent hike — to recover cost of maintenance of pipelines …
Ranchi, Jan. 17: The state fisheries department is looking at setting up hatcheries to increase seed production and net a bigger haul of fish. The department will set up 40 fish seed hatcheries across the state to breed carp such as rohu, katla, mirgel as well as other Indian and …
Ranchi, Jan. 15: A first-ever water pollution audit carried out by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has pegged Jharkhand at the bottom of the performance chart with most river conservation projects lying incomplete in the state. According to the report, Performance Audit of Water Pollution in India, the Ganga, …
To overcome the delay in payment of wages to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) workers in Jharkhand, allegedly owing to administrative apathy, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has piloted a project in Jharkhand. Under the project, online authentication and Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AEPS) …
Ranchi, Dec. 25: First power supply, then public distribution system (PDS). Close on the heels of launching a call centre to redress grievances against power supply, the state government is now working on a plan to set up call centres that will deal with complaints about PDS, responsible for supplying …
Ranchi, Dec. 25: The wait for resumption of Khajuri medium irrigation project in water-starved Garhwa district may be soon over, as the state water resources department has revised its estimates and granted administrative sanction to the tune of Rs 9.83 crore. Progress on the project in Majhiaon block has been …
The ball has been finally set rolling for a centralised drainage and sewerage in the state capital under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). The technical committee — set up by the state government to verify the suitability of the new detailed project report (DPR) prepared by Meinhardt Pvt …
In a worrying development, hundreds of crows have died in Jharkhand due to bird flu, a government official said Thursday. The crows first started dying mysteriously last month in Jamshedpur district. This was followed by their deaths in Ranchi, Bokaro, Khuti, Sahebganj and other districts of the state. Concerned over …
The dream of Ranchi as a hygiene haven will remain just that — a dream — at least for some more time. The big-budget, ambitious plan to realign the capital’s shoddy network of sewers and drains, which had been hanging fire for four years over a litany of contentious issues …
Jharkhand has produced more rice than it needs this season, thanks to the monsoon bounty after three consecutive years of drought, enabling the state to set up procurement centres in all 24 districts for the first time. Till now dependent on Chhattisgarh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh for its annual requirement …
Berhamupur: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday laid the foundation-stone for the proposed anti-Maoist Vijayawada-Ranchi corridor at Aska in Ganjam district. The corridor would go a long way in solving certain basic problems affecting not only some regions but the entire state, he said during his one-day visit to the …
Encouraged by the positive signals he received from Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh in Delhi today, deputy chief minister Sudesh Mahto will visit the national capital again on October 22, this time to meet Union water resources minister Pawan Kumar Bansal and finance minister Pranab Mukherjee. During his meeting …
Ranchi, Oct. 16: Rural development department officials are likely to pitch for the construction of around 1,845 new roads in the hinterlands of Jharkhand during their meeting with Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh, scheduled for October 17. The proposal, which will be formally made by deputy chief minister Sudesh …
