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 …
Paul John | TNN Ahmedabad: The ambitious task of strengthening 11,933 km of rural roads by the State Roads and Building Department (R&B;) was fraught with many procedural and technical glitches that caused the tax payers to cough up an extra Rs 94.31 crore. This was observed by the Comptroller …
UK Minister for International Development for Asia Shahid Malik on Saturday announced that the UK government will extend an assistance of $55 million (Rs 3.74 billion) for the construction of rural roads over the next four years in various districts of Nepal. Malik, who was speaking at a program organized …
The Karnataka government has released Rs. 200 crore as special grant for road development works in 114 backward taluks, according to Minister for Public Works C.M. Udasi. He told presspersons on Friday that the special grant would be spent only for road works in the backward taluks as roads were …
Panchayat and Rural Development Minister, Rustam Singh laid foundation of three roads to be constructed at a cost of Rs five crore under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana in Morena district, the other day. On this occasion, he reiterated the government's commitment saying that every village will be connected …
Drinking water and sanitary facilities will be ensured to all schools as well as Aganwadi centres by 2009 in Asom. This was announced by the PHE Minister Rihan Daimary in a meeting organized by Udalguri district administration to mark the completion of two years by the present government in office. …
The ministry of rural development has sanctioned Rs 696.39 crore to the National Rural Roads Development Agency (NRRDA) and the states of Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sarak Yojana (PMGSY) for the period ranging 2004-05 to 2008-09 respectively. The amount will be received by the respective …
The Haryana Cabinet on Monday approved establishment of Haryana Rural Roads and Infrastructure Development Agency. Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda told media persons after the meeting that this agency would undertake infrastructure projects, particularly rural road works approved under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna, as well as "plan, execute, …
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 …
The objective of President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his administration is to develop the backward rural areas to the level of the urban areas, said Minister of Highways T.B. Ekanayake at Panduwasnuwara. Four concreted roads costing Rs. 7 million were opened by the Minister T.B. Ekanayake on this occasion. He said …
Measures are being taken by the Ambagamuwa Divisional Secretariat to reconstruct the Galamuduna Deniyahena road in the Ambagamuwa (Ginigathena) DS division in the Nuwara Eliya district. The Government will spend Rs. 30,000 for the construction of the rural road under the Jathika Saviya Gama Neguma programme. The Central Provincial Councillor …
Sri Lankan government announce that it has launched a project funded by the Asian Development Bank to develop rural access roads and improve the livelihood of the rural masses. ADB funds were provided by the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction. The project to be implemented in the Ratnapura, Badulla and …
On the recommendation of the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, union minister of road transport and highways T.R. Baalu has approved Rs 20.78 crore under the Central Road Fund (CRF) scheme for construction of 16-km village road (3.75 m wide) with retaining wall from Kahara Jai road up to …
Rural areas account for over 60% of all deaths; Delhi may have highest number of fatalities but has one of the lowest number of deaths per 10,000 vehicles: 4.8 NEW DELHI, MARCH 29 : Better roads, better vehicles, better protection and faster medical intervention bring down the number of deaths …
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has sanctioned a total amount of Rs 22.33 cr loan for development of roads and drinking water facilities in Mizoram, an official statement said here today A sum of Rs 7.21 crore would be spent for implementing 17 new and 12 ongoing …
The widening and strengthening of the Gurgaon-Alwar and Hodal-Nuh-Pataudi Patauda roads have been approved under the National Capital Region (NCR) scheme in order to create a sound network of roads in and around Gurgaon and Mewat region. An official spokesman said that widening and maintenance work on 193-km of road …
THIS refers to the column "Far from failure' (February 15). The National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGP) is an inefficient way to revive rural economy. It would be better to improve infrastructure such as road and electricity in rural India and encourage the growth of industries. Only this would ensure …
This article critically examines the use of the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund by different states and finds that a number of aspects need to be improved to ensure proper utilisation and to reduce intra-rural disparity in India. Feb 16-22, 2008
The last five years have been tough on 55-year old Saraswati Devi. Her two sons have left their village to work as construction workers in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh (mp). The family's one hectare patch in Ragauli Bhatpura gram panchayat in Uttar Pradesh's (up) Banda district has been mortgaged. The money …
