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 …
The seven-year wait to set up the greenfield steel project in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district may be over for Posco, the fourth-largest steelmaker in the world. The Odisha state government is all set to approve the much-awaited tripartite agreement with South Korean steelmaker and its subsidiary Posco India. The Memorandum of …
Bhopal: All the inaccessible villages of Madhya Pradesh will be linked with all-weather roads by the year 2013. All the general category villages having less than 500 population and tribal villages with less than 250 population will be linked by all-weather roads with main roads under Mukhyamantri Gram Sadak Yojna. …
DODA: Expressing concern over poor road connectivity in Doda district, general secretary of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) Thakur Balbir Singh today said that works on the projects under Pradhan Mantri Gramin Sadak Yojna (PMGSY) in Seraj area of Doda district are going on snail's pace because authorities concerned have …
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) has sanctioned a loan of Rs 809 crore for irrigation projects in Uttar Pradesh. These projects will provide irrigation to 200,000 hectares of farmland across 67 districts. The bank has also sanctioned Rs 90 crore as loan to the Himachal Pradesh government …
JAIPUR: The national agriculture and rural development board (NABARD) is set to decide on the soft loans proposed by the public works department (PWD) of the state government on Wednesday. The department has forwarded projects worth Rs 1,562 crore to NABARD for refurbishing roads in the state. NABARD chairman Prakash …
Guwahati, June 11: Union minister for rural development Jairam Ramesh today approved in principle connectivity to 270 habitations in Arunachal Pradesh with a cost of approximately Rs 1,918 crore in 2012-13. He also increased the allocation for an Indira Awas Yojana house from Rs 45,800 to Rs 75,000. Ramesh approved …
IMPHAL: Jairam Ramesh, the Union Minister for rural development, drinking water and sanitation, was obviously not satisfied with the slow progress of construction works in the rural areas. Talking to reporters on Sunday at the conclusion of his two-day official visit to Manipur, Ramesh said that he had instructed the …
Former BJP legislator Shankar Oram has shot off a letter to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik seeking inquiry into sub-standard works of a rural road under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) in Bisra block of Sundargarh district. Oram said the 6.5-km stretch of the under-construction Sarubhal-Erla road has been …
With Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on their side, the Orissa government has sidestepped the concerns expressed by Central intelligence agencies and the Home Ministry to work with gram panchayat heads who were elected unopposed. Panchayat polls in February had seen a jump in the number of candidates winning unopposed …
With contractors avoiding rural road projects in Naxal-hit districts, the Union Rural Development Ministry plans to entrust local panchayats to execute them under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY). “If there are no contractors ready to construct rural roads in these areas despite repeated tenders, we are ready to …
A team comprising three executive engineers will examine roads constructed under Mukhyamantri Grameen Sadak Yojna in Rajgarh district. These instructions were given by Public Relations Minister and in-charge of Rajgarh district Shri Laxmikant Sharma at a meeting of district planning committee at Rajgarh today. He also instructed to suspend assistant …
KOLKATA, 22 MAY: State panchayat and rural development minister Subrata Mukherjee today asked all zilla sabhadhipatis and district magistrates to submit a detailed project report (DPR) for at least 5,000 km of roads across the state under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) by 14 June 2012. Mr Mukherjee …
The Union Cabinet has cleared a . 8,500-crore rural roads package to ensure growth and remove Maoist influence in forested tribal areas. The three-year roads programme, under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna (PMGSY), will provide connectivity to 6,000 habitations in 78 Maoist-affected districts, which have been left out of …
If an ambitious state road development plan approved by the public works department is implemented, then by 2021, all the national highways passing through Maharashtra will be expressways with a minimum of four lanes, ring roads will be constructed for all districts and all tehsils will have bypass roads. “The …
The Union Minister for Rural Development, Mr Jairam Ramesh, on Saturday said the Centre would grant Rs 4,000 crore for two metal road projects in West Bengal. Under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), the projects include conversion of ‘murram’ to metal road for 5,733 km and fresh road for …
Experts recommend use of green technologies including cold mix to expedite road construction Gangtok: Sikkim’s Green Mission Programme started in 2006 has catapulted the State as among the most clean and green in the country. This has been possible due to the various innovative environment-friendly initiatives taken by the Green …
Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh today rejected 18,000 km of road projects under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) proposed by the West Bengal government. He made the announcement at a high-level meeting attended among others by West Bengal rural development secretary Saurav Das. The state government delegation had …
JAMMU : Equating dependable road communication with economic prosperity, Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah on Thursday emphasized the need for dovetailing various road development schemes to obtain holistic results and expand benefit orbit. Taking stock of the progress and status of flagship programme PMGSY here, the Chief Minister said that linking …
Contractors abandon 36 projects under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana Jammu: Many road projects in the state have got delayed as a number of contractors who were allotted these mega projects under the national flagship Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) have failed to complete the work in the stipulated …
Building roads in rural areas is the job of State Governments and Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana was not a long-term solution to the problem of lack of roads, the Rural Development Minister, Mr Jairam Ramesh, said today. “If the Central Government focused on construction of rural roads and their …
