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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding desilting of the Defence Colony drain in Delhi before the monsoon, 16/04/2025

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 …

Mine blowing

A few officials who have tried to check the practice, report of being threatened by a powerful mining lobby... Despite Apex Court Ban, It Thrives In Raj Rajendra Sharma | TNN Jaipur: The recent incident of mudslide at an illegal gemstone mine in Tonk district which killed five labourers, has …

Rajasthan orders probe into Re-1 NREGS wage

  A day after The Indian Express reported that MNREGS workers in Gudaliya village in Rajasthan’s Tonk district were paid just Re 1 per day under the scheme in May this year, the state government ordered a “full inquiry”. An independent team from Jaipur will probe lapses in the panchayati raj …

Government refutes scam allegations in MNREGA

District administration says the workers were paid wages according to the work they did Jaipur: Around 100 Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA) workers, engaged in digging a stretch of land for the past 13 days were paid a paltry Re1 per day as wages with the district …

In April-June, NREGS workers paid pittance

Jaipur: Serious irregularities have surfaced in the payment of wages to workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) across Rajasthan. According to reports received from several districts, the labourers were paid a pittance even after toiling hard in hot weather conditions from April to June this …

Some guarantee: In Rajasthan district, daily wage under NREG is one rupee

FOR 11 days, 99 people toiled to dig a check-dam under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in To nk district of Rajasthan. But when it came to wages, they were paid only Rs 11

4 district collectors misused NREGA fund for buying computers

Anindo Dey | TNNJaipur: Once noted for exemplary implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), skeletons are fast tumbling out of Rajasthan

Rajasthans green drive fails to take root

Lack of rain, proper monitoring did ambitious scheme in Aimed at countering the drought scenario in the desert state, Harit Rajasthan, an ambitious scheme of Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, has failed to deliver the desired results due to lack of rain and failure to implement the scheme properly at the …

2,381 villages declared scarcity-hit

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 …

Rajasthan formulates plan to electrify 693 villages

The public sector Jaipur Vidyut Vitaran Nigam has formulated an ambitious plan for supply of electricity to 693 villages and 1,296 hamlets in seven districts of Jaipur, Bharatpur and Kota divisions this year with an expenditure of Rs.197.57 crore. The Chairman and Managing Director of Jaipur discom, R.G. Gupta, said …

Boiling point

What began as just a demand for water boiled over into an unexpected tragedy when police opened fire to disperse a mob that had reportedly turned violent. A group of farmers had gathered in Soyla village of Tonk district in Rajasthan last week to demand that water be released from …

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