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 …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Tejpal & Others Vs Government of Rajasthan & Others dated 19/07/2017 regarding a dam which is being proposed to be built in Akawad village, Jhalawar District on river Parwan, which involves at least 1835 hectares forest …
Diversion of 1825.983 ha (1835.983 ha proposed originally) of forest land for Parwan Major Irrigation Project in favour of Water Resource Department, Rajasthan, in Baran and Jhalawar Forest Divisions of Baran and Jhalawar Districts of Rajasthan.
Jaipur: A local RTI activist here accused the Ashok Gehlot government on Sunday of favouring a firm in allotting tender for the Kalisindh Dam project in Jhalawar district and demanded a judicial inquiry into the matter. He alleged that conditions of the tenders were modified by the government in such …
Jaipur: The Rajasthan government has notified the Mukundra hills sanctuary as the third tiger reserve in the state. The reserve area will be over 759 sq km spread between four districts of Kota, Bundi, Chittorgarh and Jhalawar near the Ranthambore tiger reserve. “Nearly 417 sq km have been earmarked as …
This Letter by Sanchita Jindal to Executive engineer, Dept of Water Resources, Parwan Project Division, Rajasthan regarding Environment clearance of Parwan major irrigation cum drinking water supply project in Jhalwar district, Rajasthan by Dept. of Water Resources, Rajasthan.
An ambitious food fortification programme launched in Rajasthan this past September benefiting school children through the mid-day meals scheme will be expanded this year to cover about 10 lakh children. The centralised kitchens are supplying fortified soya dal analogue containing additional micronutrients under the project. The State Government is implementing …
Torrential rains continued to pound some parts of the state including Ajmer and Alwar on Tuesday, leaving at least nine people dead. Around two dozen villages in Alwar district faced a flood-like situation after a heavy downpour for the second day running. The Jaipur met office has forecasted heavy rainfall …
Jaisalmer Tehsil Registers Highest Improvement In Child Sex Ratio Jaipur: The provisional population figures up to the tehsil-level released by the directorate of census operations, Rajasthan, on Wednesday showed an overall decrease in the child population in the 0 to 6 years age group and a clear divide on the …
Rajasthan Agriculture Minister Harjiram Burdak flagged off the first-ever consignment of certified organic food to be exported from Rajasthan to the United States here on Thursday. The organic food comprises mainly conventional pulses for which there is a heavy demand in the U.S. They were produced from the processing unit …
JAIPUR: Another swine flu death was reported in the state on Sunday. An 18-year-old man, resident of Karauli district, died of the disease. A quack in Karauli district was responsible for his slowly bleeding to death. This is the second consecutive swine flu death in the past two days. Earlier, …
Immediately after school, 15-yearold Surendra Kumar rushes to the wheat fields running parallel to the main Chambal canal in Umaidganj village in Rajasthan’s Kota district. He begins his search for a pair of Saras Cranes and their two young ones—the crane family he has been tracking for four years now. …
BY NARAYAN BARETH JAIPUR The Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangthan (MKSS), led by social worker Aruna Roy, is preparing itself to undertake a social audit of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in Ajmer district, the Sarpanch Sangh has decided to oppose the entry of MKSS members in villages. The …
Medicinal plants play a vital role in providing health care to human beings since the dawn of civilization. It is evident that the Indian people have tremendous passion for medicinal plants and they them for wide range of health related applications. Therefore, an attempt was made to explore indigenous practices …
Medicinal plants play a vital role in providing health care to human beings since the dawn of civilization. It is evident that the Indian people have tremendous passion for medicinal plants and they them for wide range of health related applications. Therefore, an attempt was made to explore indigenous practices …
During January 2008, the author visited Alawa village (population nearly 1000) in Jhalawar District, Rajasthan to study scarcity of irrigation water. Armed with diesel engines, farmers were seen aggressively pumping water from two check dams located in the Ahu River
The Rajasthan Government on Thursday declared 2,381 villages in 10 districts as scarcity-hit following extensive damage to rabi crops caused by frost and cold wave earlier this year. The maximum number of 1,722 such villages are in Jaipur, followed by 249 in Sriganganagar, 178 in Jhalawar, 103 in Tonk, 43 …
An exhaustive social audit of the much talked about National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in Jhalawar district of Rajasthan has revealed large-scale fraud in material supplies, extortion of money for job cards, dead people registered on muster rolls, and lack of transparency in the execution of works. However, the …
THE National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is barely three months old on the ground. This is precisely why the mass social audit of the Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS) in Dungarpur district in southern Rajasthan in April held enormous implications for the way this ambitious piece of legislation could take …
