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 …
Aug. 20: The CM, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, on Thursday appointed senior bureaucrats as special officers to monitor relief operations in 20 districts suffering from dry spell in the state. The CM asked the nodal officers to visit the districts once a week and review the conditions. The Chief Minister …
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: Even as the number of drought-hit districts in the country has risen to 207, several States have demanded that the limit of 100 days assured employment under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme be raised to 200 days as a drought relief measure. Bihar Chief Minister …
Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa on Tuesday sought Rs 395 crore assistance under the National Calamity Contingency Fund (NCCF) from the Centre to take up relief measures in drought-hit areas in the State. The CM who met Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said, "I have requested the Union minister …
Stalin meets Manmohan Singh, Sharad Pawar in New Delhi South-west monsoon deficient in 26 out of 31 districts Permission sought to import food grains CHENNAI: The State government has sought financial assistance of Rs.605.06 crore from the Centre to meet the drought-like situation due to the failure of the south-west …
HYDERABAD: The Centre will soon announce a major policy decision and a package of new initiatives to help farmers in the drought-hit parts across India, said Union Minister of State for Rural Development Sisir Kumar Adhikari. The package was likely to include subsidised electricity and/or diesel to help farmers run …
Scores of people staged a demonstration here in front of taluk office on Monday, demanding to declare the taluk as drought-hit. Collective Demand: Farmers staging protest in Bagepalli, urging the government to take up drought relief measures in the taluk, on Monday. Former legislator G V Sriram Reddy is seen. …
Hyderabad, Aug. 10 With drought-like situation prevailing in most parts of the country, the Union Government is fine-tuning a special policy initiative within the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS).
New Delhi: Observing that the country was facing a "difficult situation" following delayed and deficient rainfall, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Saturday that the Centre has adequate foodgrains and would not hesitate to take strong measures and intervene in the market if the need arose. "Agricultural operations have been …
The Andhra Pradesh Government should make efforts in right earnest to take up drought relief measures in the State, as the situation is getting worse by the day, said Dr Y. Sivaji, a former member of the Rajya Sabha and also the honorary president of the AP Tobacco Growers
CHANDIGARH: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has sought a special relief package of Rs.1,000 crore from the Centre in view of drought-like conditions in the State. In a communication to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Mr. Hooda said Haryana Power Utilities had to be compensated for costly purchase of additional …
Atiq Khan LUCKNOW: Twenty-seven more districts in Uttar Pradesh were declared drought-affected on Sunday after a fresh review by the State government. This brings the total number of drought-hit districts in the State to 47. Twenty districts were declared drought-affected on Saturday. These districts received less than 40 per cent …
Agriculture hit by scanty rain Dehradun: The Uttarakhand Government has sought Central assistance of Rs.200 crore in the wake of drought-like conditions in the State due to scanty rainfall for the past six months, official sources said. Rainfall in the months of December, January, February and March has been far …
K. Balchand NEW DELHI: In a bid to provide relief to seven drought-affected districts of Bundelkhand region and eastern Uttar Pradesh, the National Agricultural Bank for Rural Development (NABARD) has sanctioned Rs.246 crore. According to Union Minister of State for Rural Development Pradeep Jain, the funds would be used for …
Bangalore, DHNS: The state cabinet, which met on Thursday, decided to release Rs 40 crore towards drought relief works in the state. RDPR minister Shobha Karandlaje said that against the target of sowing in 74.7 lakh ha in Kharif season sowing had been done only in 19.7 lakh ha. The …
Maharashtra in the grip of severest drought since 1972 maharashtra seems to be heading towards a drought-year. On July 9, the state government declared a
Pune, July 28 Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh will soon be meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to seek central aid to counter the drought-like situation prevailing in the state, despite the intermittent rains in the last few days. As a first step towards this, divisional commissioners of the six revenue divisions …
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has urged the Central government for inclusion of Tikamgrh, Chhatarpur, Datia, Sagar and Satna districts in the special category under farm loan waiver scheme so that other farmers of this drought affected districts could also be reasonably benefited under the scheme. Chouhan has written a …
