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 …
Sujay Mehdudia NEW DELHI: The Union government is understood to have firmed up a proposal to set up a 4,000 MW thermal power plant in Bundelkhand in Uttar Pradesh. The move comes close on the heels of a demand by All India Congress Committee general secretary Rahul Gandhi that a …
Within two months of Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and demanding a development package for the Bundelkhand region, the Planning Commission has firmed up a proposal to set up a 4,000-Mw power plant there. The panel is working on a Cabinet note with other suggestions …
Lucknow: The ambitious Saryu Canal Project (SCP) launched in 1977-78 has been able to meet barely 18 per cent of its targeted irrigation potential while there has been a 743 per cent increase in the cost of the project. This is the finding of the latest report of the Comptroller …
The school in the hamlet of Bagraha in Chitrakoot district has three rooms, but these are built only in name. There is dried mud in place of a floor, the walls are unplastered, and there are no windowpanes. A fan hangs in one room and some electrical fittings were put …
LUCKNOW: Chief minister Mayawati has requested prime minister Manmohan Singh to classify Jhansi, Chitrakoot and Mirzapur revenue divisions as special category divisions under Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme (AIBP) for ensuring rapid development of backwards areas like Bundelkhand and Vindhyachal. She has also asked the PM to include three irrigation projects …
Nathu Ram has studied up to Class 5, owns two acres of non-irrigated land, and looks much older than his 48 years. This year, Nathu Ram got work under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) for 28 days. He received the third instalment of his wages at the end …
LUCKNOW: Expressing concern over the reports that poverty stricken people in drought-hit Bundelkhand region were ALLEGEDLY mortgaging their women, the UP Congress Committee (UPCC) would send a three-member team to the area on Tuesday. UPCC spokesperson Subodh Srivastava said that state president of the party Rita Bahuguna Joshi while taking …
At the sleepy office of the Bundelkhand Vikas Nigam in Jhansi, senior assistant O P Gupta, lone member of the staff apart from a chaprasi and the newly appointed chairman, is clearly unaccustomed to visitors. He recalls the time when the Nigam
Mahim Pratap Singh CHHATTARPUR/TIKAMGARH (MADHYA PRADESH): Bundelkhand is reeling under agrarian crisis. Farmers in Chhattarpur and Tikamgarh districts who took heavy loans for the kharif crop are in a dilemma
Amita Verma Sept. 6: Film actor turned politician Raja Bundela will take out a "padyatra" from Chitrakoot in Uttar Pradesh to Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh in November to press for the demand for creation of a separate Bundelkhand state. Mr Bundela, who has been waging a long-drawn battle for Bundelkhand …
The women of Ramgarh village in Chhattarpur district in Madhya Pradesh's drought-affected Bundelkhand region have battled administrative apathy and non-cooperation by elected representatives to find a solution to the severe water problem they are facing. The women of Ramgarh village in Chhattarpur district in Madhya Pradesh's drought-affected Bundelkhand region have …
This document by Right to Food Campaign Madhya Pradesh Support Group, highlights the drought situation persists in Bundelkhand. The situation is turning perilous. Bundelkhand is now, desperately in need of attitudinal change. The experience of Bundelkhand proves that only lack of rain does not mean drought, but drought conditions develop …
AMIT AGNIHOTRI Aug. 25: AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi's social initiative is already transforming the lives of thousands of rural women in the backward Bundelkhand region in UP even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is planning development projects there. The AICC general secretary's vision of organising the poor to unleash …
LUCKNOW: The state capital is losing six lakh litres of groundwater reserves daily because of indiscriminate extraction. This poses threat of massive land subsidence in next 15 years. Apart from Narhi, Charbagh and Rajajipuram, on the top of the list of areas under danger zone is Gomtinagar, one of city's …
LUCKNOW: Even as political parties continued to point fingers and accuse one another of not doing enough for the drought-hit farmers, a petty farmer committed suicide in Lalitpur district of Bundelkhand after his crop failed because of virtually no rainfall. This is the first known case of drought-related suicide since …
Atiq Khan LUCKNOW: In a region notorious for its feudal mindset, where remnants of erstwhile aristocracy still rule the roost, an eight-page weekly, Khabar Lahariya is a ray of hope. It has created awareness among the oppressed and deprived sections of the Chitrakoot and the Banda districts in the Bundelkhand …
