Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Surjith Kumar Nanu Vs State of Kerala & Others. The allegation of the applicant is that the mines of laterite stone is being done by Ashraf K in Palloramala hills affecting over 80.94 acres of land of Ulliyeri village. Despite …
SHILLONG: The Centre’s rural household electrification programme has illuminated around 3.24 lakh households in the State. The official statistics of the Union Government say that 69.92 per cent of the households in Meghalaya have been electrified. As per statistics, 31,226 of the total 59,010 households spread over 1,077 habitations in …
19 projects pending for years SHILLONG: As many as 19 power projects are pending to be implemented in Meghalaya at a time when the State does not have sufficient power to address the current shortage. Out of 19 projects, 14 had gone to private power companies which are yet to …
The flood situation in Meghalaya remained grim on Tuesday though water level in some parts of Garo Hills receded even as death toll due to the devastation caused by flash flood and landslides rose to 25. As many as 24 people are still reported missing. According to official sources, seven …
Over one lakh people affected as Brahmaputra, Jingiram waters inundate several villages West Garo Hills was on Monday declared as flood hit district after the swollen Brahmaputra and Jingiram rivers submerged several villages of the district. Two other districts — East Garo Hills and South Garo Hills — were also …
Total Sanitation Campaign scam in Garo Hills TURA: Central funds for construction of toilets in different schools of East Garo Hills have allegedly been misappropriated to the tune of over Rs 5 crore during the tenure of the then deputy commissioner and current Tura DC Pravin Bakshi who allegedly allowed …
Five districts of Garo hills today pledged to ensure an aggressive approach towards meeting the mandate of Nirmal (Clean) Meghalaya by 2017. The deputy commissioners of the five districts gave presentations at the two day consultative workshop on “Nirmal Meghalaya” highlighting the substantial gains, which have been made to increase …
As part of an initiative of the District Basin Development Unit, East Garo Hills under Meghalaya Integrated Basin Development and Livelihood Promotion Program (MIBDLP), approximately more than 9000 farmers in East Garo Hills district of Meghalaya received benefits from the ‘Seeds on Wheels 2013’ project. The Seed Festival which was …
TURA: The Garo Students Union and several organizations have formed a Joint Action Committee (JAC) to halt the government from going ahead with its water supply project at Daribokgre village after a spot visit to the dam site on Saturday where they met the parliamentary secretary for PHE and department …
Shillong, Sept. 12: The foundation stone for the first-ever hydel power project, to be executed by the North Eastern Electric Power Corporation Limited (Neepco) in Meghalaya, will be laid by Union power minister M. Veerappa Moily on Monday. Despite having its headquarters in Shillong since 1976, it was only in …
SHILLONG: Police have registered a case of negligence against the manager of the rat hole mine located at Nengkul, Rongsa Awe of Nangalbibra in East Garo Hills, where labourers are still trapped inside in one of the worst coal mine accidents in recent times. The incident took place after some …
Shillong: The Meghalaya State Aquaculture Mission has received nearly 40,000 applications from individual fish farmers across the state to partner with the state government in attaining self-sufficiency in fish production. A majority of the applications, which were received from November 2011 till April this year, have come from West Garo …
Agartala: Timely vaccination of birds and animals, access to standard laboratories and maintaining bio-security are among the measures required to curb the sporadic outbreak of bird flu in India’s northeast, says a team of international and Indian experts touring the region. Experts of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and …
SHILLONG: The World Health Organization (WHO) has sounded alarm bells after two reported outbreaks of the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 in poultry farms in Odisha and one in a state run farm in East Garo Hills in Meghalaya. The samples from the two states which were sent to the …
SHILLONG: Authorities in Meghalaya have completed disinfection operations in a bird flu-hit area of East Garo Hills district, an official said on Sunday. “We have completed the entire process of disinfection and decontamination in 21 villages within a three-kilometer radius of a government-run farm at Williamnagar,” Animal Husbandry and Veterinary …
SHILLONG, Jan 22 – Culling of birds in Williamnagar town of East Garo Hills district and in 35 villages within a 10-km radius of the town has been completed, official sources said today. Culling of birds had started after the Bhopal-based High Security Animal Disease Laboratory (HSADL) confirmed H1N1 virus …
SHILLONG: A week after bird flu was detected at a government-run farm in Meghalaya’s East Garo Hills district, the government today said the situation was under control. “We have completed disinfection process in the poultry farm of Williamnagar town and the whole situation is completely normalising,” District Deputy Commissioner Pravin …
SHILLONG, Authorities in Meghalaya today culled nearly 5,000 domesticated fowls in a bird flu-hit area of East Garo Hills district, an official said. The birds were culled and buried with lime and bleaching powder in 19 villages within a three-km radius of a government-run farm at Williamnagar - the epicentre …
SHILLONG: The culling of bird-flu infected fowls within 3 km radius from the Government poultry farm in Williamnagar, East Garo Hills is expected to be completed by Wednesday. “We will complete the culling operation in the remaining four villages within 3 km radius by Wednesday. We are carrying out this …
Shillong, Jan. 16: The East Garo Hills district administration will continue culling for another week even after more than 2,500 chickens were slaughtered. More villagers have come forward to report the disease in the control rooms set up in East Garo Hills after an increase in the compensation for the …
Outbreak of bird-flu and aftermath Shillong: Fresh deaths of domesticated fowls have been reported in the State, even as the culling of birds in a three-kilometre radius of the bird-flu epicentre of Williamnagar in Meghalaya’s East Garo Hills entered its third day on Sunday, an official said. More than 2,321 …
