Report filed by the Forest and Wildlife Department, Kerala in the matter of Tribunal on its own motion Suo Motu based on the news item published in the Hindu, Chennai edition paper dated 30/07/2024 titled "Wayanad landslides live updates: 54 killed, over 100 feared missing in Kerala hill station; relief …
Farmers Of Bundelkhand Get Govt Relief Cheques For 10 From State Govt Banda: When Sushil Kumar heard that the government was about to offer drought-hit farmers compensation in the form of monetary relief, his hopes rose. Production may have been poor, but all was not lost. With the compensation amount …
BANDA: When Sushil Kumar heard that the government was about to offer drought-hit farmers compensation in the form of monetary relief, his hopes rose. The Economic Times may have been poor, but all was not lost. With the compensation amount he would get, Kumar thought he would buy better seeds …
JAMMU, Minister for Revenue, Relief and Rehabilitation, Raman Bhalla today distributed cheques among the drought hit families of Samba district which has received Rs. 4 crore as the first installment to provide relief to the affected families of 2009 drought under CRF. So far Rs. 32 lakh have been distributed …
FAIZABAD: Sheer callousness on part of local officials prevented the state government's drought relief cheques from reaching the beneficiaries in Faizabad district. Thousands of such cheques dated between 2003 and 2007 were found lying in garbage at Milkipur tehsil office of the district. The matter came to light when some …
JAMMU, Mar 8 : Minister for Revenue, Relief and Rehabilitation, Raman Bhalla today distributed relief worth Rs. 1.24 crore among 72 drought hit families of Akhnoor tehsil under National Calamity Relief Fund (NCRF) at a function held at Government Boys Higher Secondary School, Akhnoor. Minister for Health, Sham Lal Sharma, …
KOLKATA, 30 Jan: Although the Centre has allotted a handsome amount for providing relief to farmers of 11 drought-hit districts of Bengal, the state government may find it difficult to utilise the funds within the deadline. Claiming that the farmers of the districts are in real distress, the cash-strapped state …
Most of China's wheat-growing areas in the north are suffering from drought with some seeing no rain for more than three months while the second most important wheat province of Shandong is facing its worst drought in a century. Experts say that if the drought goes on over coming weeks, …
SRINAGAR, Oct 6 : Minister for Revenue, Relief and Rehabilitation, Raman Bhalla has said that Government has put up a relief demand of Rs. 211.28 crore to Centre for providing succor to draught affected farmers in the State. He said the comprehensive relief package was formulated after conducting special Girdawari …
Sept. 17: The Centre today announced a diesel subsidy of up to Rs 500 per hectare to farmers in drought-hit Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand to help them irrigate their fields.
FARMERS in drought-hit districts will get diesel subsidy of 500 per hectare, even as the Centre awaits bumper crop production for most key kharif crops including paddy, cotton, pulses, and sugarcane. A good monsoon and prospects of a good kharif and rabi should have a sobering effect on food prices, …
Ranchi, Aug. 31: Jharkhand may have been declared drought-hit, but the state has little funds to begin relief work. Forget about Central funds allocation, the state officials are clueless whether the drought assessment report has been submitted to the Centre. Till the funds start trickling in from the Centre, the …
Ranchi, Aug. 30: Jharkhand intends to submit a Rs 7,500 crore proposal to the Centre for the smooth completion of different major and medium irrigation projects in different parts of the state. The decision was taken today at a review meeting presided by chief secretary A.K. Singh. The funds would …
BURDWAN, 25 AUG: The district administration of Burdwan has been ordered to overhaul the deep tube-well system across the “rice bowl”of Burwan to help extend irrigation facilities ~ however minor ~ to the farmers who braved cultivation despite severe dearth of rainfall this year. The measure, according to the senior …
Kolkata: The West Bengal Government on Friday geared up to tackle the situation in the 11 drought-hit districts hit by cancelling leave of certain department staff and more than doubling the allocation that it had announced on Monday. Finance Minister Asim Dasgupta announced that Rs.115 crore was being allocated to …
Hazaribagh/Ranchi, Aug. 19: Three members of a central team, which is in the state to review the drought situation, today visited Hazaribagh and observed that poor rainfall over two years had adversely affected crop patterns in the parched district. The team, led by director of National Horticulture Board Bijay Kumar, …
Bhubaneswar: Apprehending a possible crop loss in Odisha this year, chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday directed the concerned department to make an action plan to combat drought-like situation in the state. The directive of the chief minister came while reviewing precautionary measures on possible flood situation at the State …
AMIT GUPTARanchi, Aug. 11: The state administration will submit a memorandum to the Centre seeking assistance of around Rs 2,000 crore in Jharkhand, which is in the throes of a severe drought.This was decided today in a meeting chaired by the governor
Jamshedpur, Aug. 9: The forest department has extended a helping hand to the farmers of Pipla and Bhagabandh villages in drought-hit East Singhbhum district under the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), a frontal agency fighting hunger worldwide.Recently, the department started a lift irrigation project in both the villages covering …
Prime Minister Man-mohan Singh is likely to appoint a panel, comprising members of Parliament, to examine the implementation of the Rs 7,266-crore Bundelkhand package, allocated to drought-hit districts of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. The move comes after inputs from Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi and a number of complaints …
