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 …
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh has done laudable work for rural infrastructure development in the state and has fully utilised funds allocated to it. This has been said by chairman of National Agriculture and Rural Development Bank Shri Umesh Chandra Sarangi in a letter to the state government. He also said that …
The Karnataka government has cleared 72 mega projects entailing total investment of Rs 2.32 lakh crore since January 2010, Large and Medium Industries Minister Murugesh Nirani said here on Tuesday. Addressing a gathering of industry captains as part of the road-show in the City for the Global Investors
BHUBANESWAR: Even as the Centre is emphasising on electronic-enabled Panchayati Raj institutions (EPRI) for speedy delivery of services at the doorstep of people, lack of infrastructure and manpower are the major impediments in the way of e-Governance. As many panchayats of the State are outside the purview of electricity, the …
Two years ago, Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) had a leaking water supply system and defunct meters. It decided to launch a pilot project in the Dharampeth area, and put in new pipes and meters. Today, over 6,000 connections there have water round the clock— and are happy to pay for …
Mahatma Gandhi's words that India lives in its villages are still a truism. But the accelerating pace of urbanisation suggests that, much before the close of this century, India will indeed live in its cities. Going by current trends, 40 per cent of India's population will be living in urban …
In a departure from its business-as-usual approach, UPA-II is set to ensure accountability of its ministers manning core sector ministries. The Manmohan Singh government has now finalised plans to come out with the performance of these ministries. At the government
THE government will unveil a monitoring plan for infrastructure sectors next week, as it looks to improve the performance of ministries and address delays in implementation of projects. Planing Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia is expected to unveil the plan on Monday after a meeting with officials of key …
On its concluding day, the special session of Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha unanimously passed a 70-point resolution presented by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan focusing on the state's all-round and all-inclusive development. The resolution was moved on May 11, the first day of the special session, which was convened with …
Big names like Reliance Energy, Tata Power, Jindal Steel, Tata Reality and Infrastructure, IL&FS;, IDFC have shown interest. PURA, the pet theme of former President Abdul Kalam -- Provision of Urban Amenities in Rural Areas
Mumbai: Considering increasing number of construction works in Mumbai, Maharashtra government wants to set up a separate committee to give environmental approvals to the works. "We have requested the Centre to allow us to form a separate sub-committee for approving infrastructure works in the city," minister of state for environment, …
This paper attempts an analysis of efficiency variation in health system performance in Karnataka. By using the stochastic frontier technique, it provides an idealised yardstick to evaluate the performance of the health sector. Carried out in two stages of estimation, the results of our model, using district-level panel data, indicate …
S.S. NEGI NEW DELH The Supreme Court on Thursday put its seal on the legality of the MPs local area development scheme under which they get Rs 2 crores for development project of their choice in their constituencies even though no provision for the money is made in the appropriation …
LUCKNOW: In a fresh impetus to bettering urban infrastructure in major cities of the state, the government of India has named Lucknow, Varanasi, Agra, Kanpur, Meerut, Allahabad and Mathura as mission cities under the urban infrastructure and governance (UIG) scheme of Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). The seven …
J. Venkatesan New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday held that the Members of Parliament Local Area Development (MPLAD) Scheme, under which every MP is allotted Rs. 2 crore a year for constituency development, was intra vires the Constitution.
A five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court today unanimously upheld the MP Local Area Development (MPLAD) scheme, stating that Parliament had the power to disburse funds under it. Under the scheme, each member of Parliament is provided Rs 2 crore annually for development of his constituency. This was challenged …
Personnel of the security forces interact with members of Salwa Judum, a vigilante group raised to fight naxalites. A file photograph. A large number of villagers who suffered at the hands of this group are yet to be rehabilitated despite a government promise to his effect. ONE week after the …
Five years after a single window system was put in place to attract investments to Jharkhand, the state industries department is giving it legal teeth through the proposed Industrial Facilitation Act, 2010. The act became necessary after the single window system and the Jharkhand Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (JIIDCO), which …
