Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton Canal nearly choked due to garbage dumping appearing in the DT Next dated 11.05.2025". The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton …
Making further concessions for creating public infrastructure in Naxalite areas, the government on Thursday ordered that projects like building of roads, schools or hospitals on forest land would not require clearance under the Forest Conservation Act, 1980 as long as the total forest land to be diverted is not more …
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has decided to seek an estimated Rs 3,000 crore for rural connectivity under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) from the rural development ministry during the 2011-12 fiscal. Briefing newsmen after attending a high-level review meeting on the status and progress of the PMGSY in …
Six per cent increase in earnings of the Corporation The Rajasthan State Road Transport Corporation has set a target to connect all the village panchayats of the State with its service in next three years. At present its network covers 40 per cent of the village panchayats . The Corporation …
Andhra Pradesh will be the first state to use National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) funds to provide road connectivity and improve hygienic conditions in remote areas inhabited by Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe people. Rural connectivity has now been included in the permissible category of works under the Mahatma …
Catering to its Dalit vote bank, the Bahujan Samaj Party government has sanctioned Rs 1,250 crore for construction of roads in Ambedkar villages that were identified in the party's last three regimes but where work had come to a halt with the fall of the party's governments. A highly placed …
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) under Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) has sanctioned a loan of R128.53 crore to the Haryana government for strengthening and widening of 13 Rural Roads in in six districts and construction of 754 Anganwadi centres in 17 districts. This was informed by …
Commercial endeavours being allowed in forests: Cong The government came under fire in the Vidhan Sabha for allowing commercial endeavours in forests in the name of eco-tourism to benefit favoured private parties in blatant violation of the Forest Conservation Act (FCA). Pradesh Congress Committee chief Kaul Singh while raising a …
BHUBANESWAR: The Government has set a target to construct 230 bridges in 201112 out of which 105 will be taken up under state plan. Replying to the demand discussion of Rural Development Department, Minister Bikram Keshari Arukha said construction of bridges will be accorded priority in the coming fiscal and …
Unlike the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP), the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), under the UPA government appears to be on track, with better utilisation of funds by majority of the states. The programme was launched on December 25, 2000, as a fully funded, centrally sponsored scheme to …
MUMBAI: The city's network of roads is ready to expand thanks to the new coastal regulation zone notification, which the Centre announced last Friday. The civic body has already indentified 69 arterial roads and thoroughfares in the eastern and western suburbs. Work on most of these roads or 'missing links' …
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The World Bank on Tuesday approved a $1.5 billion Credit and Loan for India's Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) aimed towards improving rural accessibility of roads. The new project will concentrate on the states of Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Meghalaya, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, and Uttar Pradesh, the Bank said in …
Patiala: Public Works Department (PWD) minister Parminder Dhindsa has said as many as Rs 1300 crore would be spent on the construction of the new flyovers and roads in the state. Dhindsa stated this at the prize distribution function of the Maharaja Ranjit Singh Senior Secondary Public School here today. …
The State government has decided to release Rs 400 crore for the repair of rural roads and work is expected to start in another fortnight. Public Works Department Minister C M Udasi inaugurating a bridge at Mudungarukatte in Bantwal taluk on Thursday. DH PhotoBriefing media persons after inaugurating a minor …
Panchayat, Rural Development and Social Justice Minister Gopal Bhargava said that the Madhya Pradesh Government has accepted a big challenge of constructing cement concrete roads in 52 thousand villages. He asked the construction agencies to use such techniques with which quality roads at less cost shall be constructed. While inaugurating …
ON March 9, the country's leading industry captains, attending the first meeting of the Assam Investment Advisory Board in Guwahati, said they were impressed by the emergence of a
Finance Minister Raghavji laid the foundation stones of several roads in Vidisha district on Sunday. During the functions, the Finance Minister said that roads open news vistas of development and progress for any state. Basic amenities are being provided constantly to the residents of Madhya Pradesh under which they are …
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development has sanctioned Rs 111.24 crore as loan assistance to the state government for building up of rural infrastructure in various districts of the state. The projects sanctioned cover rural roads, bridges and minor irrigation projects, according to an official press release. These …
