The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Development of villages of the State is imperative for overall progress and prosperity of the State. Saying this at a peasants' rally at Chowkidinghi play ground here today, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said, keeping this in mind, the State Government accorded priority on village development. He also stated that his …
A large proportion of the newly elected members to the Panchayati Raj system do not get the opportunity to undergo training programmes for effective performance. The opportunity is not available to 43 per cent of them. The chief reason being
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi with some elected representatives of district panchayats at the National Convention of Chairpersons of District and Intermediate Panchayats in New Delhi on Thursday. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday called for devolution of more powers and responsibilities to elected representatives of …
Mobile Medical Teams (MMT) launched by the army and the state government under Border Area Development Programme (BADP) as a part of the comprehensive approach to the border management with focus on socio-economic development including healthcare of remote and inaccessible areas has almost proved to be a failure in Kashmir. …
Over 40 thousand Village Water and Sanitation Committees have been constituted in the state under Total Sanitation Campaign. Importantly, all the members of the committees are women. Giving this information, Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Rustam Singh said that cent percent participation of women has been ensured in these committees …
We are celebrating the 15th anniversary of the new avatar of panchayats. Under Article 243(G) of the Constitution, Panchayats must become "institutions of self-government.' What is the balance sheet of the Panchayati Raj Institutions after 15 years? The deficits outnumber the achievements. Many factors are responsible for this dismal picture. …
With the city continuing to reel under acute water shortage, the time has come for us to look at other alternative sources to get around this problem and make intelligent use of available water. "With tons of rainwater going waste, we should try and make optimum use of it and …
Chhatna, (Bankura): Five pairs of hands have reached out to a remote rural pocket of Bankura that the healthcare authorities seem to have forgotten about. Led by P.K. Sarkar, a former director of the School of Tropical Medicine and state drug controller, the team is building a 10-bed hospital in …
The Municipal Corporation might have allocated lakhs of rupees to upgrade water supply network in villages and colonies but in reality not much has been done about it till date. Residents still have to struggle to get clean potable water. In 2006-07, Hallomajra, Dadu Majra, Maloya, Palsora and Kajheri were …
: The October 8, 2005 earthquake wrecked havoc on life and property in the bordering area of Karnah. Three years after the natural disaster hit Karnah villages, at least 99 children rendered orphans are still awaiting cash relief compensation announced by the union government under National Calamity Scheme for Victims …
The state government is determined to ensure arrangements of drinking water, power and roads in every village. This was said by Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Rustam Singh while laying the foundation stone of a stop dam to be constructed at a cost of Rs 64.84 lakh at village Bamrauli …
People have seen a change in their quality of life, thanks to the solar lighting system. "My son stays up later than all of us, studying through the night," says Guddi Devi, a resident of Dabkan- Kartikeya Singh, Alwar It is a simple device but it has shrunk the nights …
Report by the task group set-up for analyzing the problems of hilly habitations in areas covered by the Hill Areas Development Programme/Western Ghats Development Programme. The mountain ranges and hill areas of India have a crucial role to play in determining the climate and physiography of the country and are …
This article chronicles the peaceful struggle and eventual success of the people of Alibag, Maharashtra, against the attempts by corporate bodies, with the help of the state government, to grab land for a number of coal-based power plants in the area. Had the plants come up, it would have been …
It was the mid-1980s. Environmentalist Anil Agarwal was on a mission: track down the person who had conceptualized the employment guarantee scheme in Maharashtra. His search - I tagged along - led him to a dusty, file-filled office in the secretariat. There we met V S Page. I remember a …
The City Beautiful will soon get a "milk village' to accommodate more than 27,000 cattle heads. The project will have three phases: in Maloya, Khuda Lahora and Makhanmajra villages. The UT Administration has already earmarked 29 acres in village Maloya. This patch had earlier been allocated for Transport Nagar. A …
There are 1,515 villages in the State, which are totally covered under the rural electrification programme. The number villages partially covered under the programme is 6,603. This was stated by Power Minister Pradyut Bardoloi in the State Assembly today in reply to a starred question from Independent member Pranab Kalita. …
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today said her government would soon provide better sewer facilities to about 200 villages in the Capital. Dikshit, who is also the Chairperson of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB), said the jal board would build 58 underground reservoirs, including 28 in east Delhi, in the …
The Planning Commission on Tuesday suggested a slew of measures to reform Punjab's power sector, including charging differential peak and non-peak tariffs for commercial users in the state. At a meeting to finalise the state's Annual Plan for 2008-09 on Tuesday, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal discussed at length the …
