Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Seema Chauhan Vs State of Madhya Pradesh dated 30/05/2022. Grievance in the application is that 382 hectares of land is being removed for diamond mining in Bundelkhand, district Chhattarpur, Madhya Pradesh, as against the requirement of 65 hectares land. The …
The Bundelkhand Package of Rs 7266 crore sanctioned by the Government of India for the development of Bundelkhand region falling under Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh includes Madhya Pradesh's share of Rs 3760 crore. Of this share, Rs 2160 crore are earmarked for the schemes under implementation from earlier. A …
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) 2005 has been a landmark legislation in the Indian history of social security legislation post independence. This Act has been devised as a public works programme with a rights-based approach of providing 100 days of guaranteed wage employment as income security to rural …
Despite its rich resources like forests and minerals, Bundelkhand is a region of distress and crisis. A study fi nds that the distress of the region simply cannot be explained by the absence or irregularity of rainfall. There are long-term structural problems which have had a cumulative effect over the …
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan today demanded a Rs 24,000 crore package from the Centre for development of the Bundelkhand region and also called for speedy approval of power sector proposals for funding through external agencies. Mr Chouhan, who met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister Pranab …
Mahim Pratap Singh Chhatarpur/Bhopal: While Bundelkhand is usually referred to as a grossly under-developed region of Madhya Pradesh, a village in Chhattarpur district might just qualify as
CPI state secretariat demanding to stop acquisition process of fertile agricultural lands for upcoming power project in Lalitpur district on Thursday suggested that this project could be set up on forest department
Since the 2007 assembly elections, when Congress won the Jhansi assembly seat, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi has been taking a special interest in Bundelkhand. Rahul
Spurred on by clearance of a special package for Bundelkhand region, the National Research Centre for Agro-Forestry (NRCAF) will soon recommend its watershed experiment in the 13 drought-prone districts of the region to tackle water scarcity there. As the problems in Garhkundar-Dabar in Tikamgarh district of Madhya Pradesh were identical
LUCKNOW: Year 2009 will go down as the year of Bundelas in Uttar Pradesh's history. A focal point of bitter confrontation between the Congress and the ruling BSP, the parched terrain, straddling seven districts in UP and five in MP, has never had it so good. Recent months have seen …
Hitting out at Congress-led UPA Government the Bahujan Samaj Party said that the much-hyped Bundelkhand package was "insufficient" and was aimed at gaining political mileage rather than solving problems of that rugged region. "The Congress government has ditched the people of Bundelkhand who are craving for development. With this package …
The Union Cabinet on Thursday cleared a special package worth Rs 7,266 crore for the implementation of a drought mitigation strategy over a three-year period starting 2009-10 for the development of 13 districts in the Bundelkhand region.
NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved a Rs.7,277-crore Drought Mitigation Special Package for the integrated development of the drought-hit Bundelkhand region in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh from 2009 to 2010. The package covers seven districts of Uttar Pradesh (Banda, Chitrakoot, Hamirpur, Jalaun, Jhansi, Lalipur and Mahoba) and …
Days after the Congress failed to make any electoral headway in the Bundelkhand region, identified by AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi as a stepping stone for the grand old party
MUKESH RANJAN Congress general magic appears to have done the trick, as the Centre has worked out a special package of Rs 7,000 crores for Bundelkhand region comprising districts of Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Madhya Pradesh (MP). The Union Cabinet is likely to clear it in its meeting on Thursday. …
After a year-long intense campaign by Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi that catapulted the backward Bundelkhand region into the national political discourse, the Cabinet will finally discuss tomorrow a comprehensive Rs 7,000-crore package that envisages large-scale irrigation and river-linking programmes. The Planning Commission has sought the Cabinet
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh is working towards implementation of the Scheduled Tribes and other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, for empowering the tribals and other traditional forest dwellers for their occupation and habitation rights on forests. This Act empowers and encourages forest dwellers to protect, conserve and …
Since the Uttar Pradesh government stayed away from the meeting held at Orchha in Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday to discuss development of Bundelkhand through NREGS, the Centre has decided to hold a separate meeting for UP after the by-elections in November. The Congress, at the same time, accused UP of …
The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to boycott a high-level meeting called by the Centre on Tuesday to discuss the development of Bundelkhand through the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS). Apart from Union Minister of State for Rural Development Pradeep Jain, the meeting
