Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Hemant Kumar & Others Vs State of Himachal Pradesh & Others dated 13/05/2025. An application was received by the NGT filed by Hemant Kumar on behalf of all the villagers of Gram Panchayat Salani Katola, tehsil Nahan, district Sirmaur, Himachal …
The energetic focus on the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme appears to have overshadowed other rural development programmes in States, if one goes by the latest quarterly report of the Ministry of Rural Development. The obsession with this programme was visible on Thursday too when the Parliamentary Consultative Committee on …
Asphaltation of 8 km-long Addei-Maipala road, a long-pending project in Kokkada village, has been included in the Pradhan Manthri Gram Sadak (PMGS) Yojana, said MLA K Vasanth Bangera. Addressing a Samparka Sabhe organised by Mundoorpalike Abhivruddhi Samanvaya Samiti (MASS) at Mundoorpalike near here recently, he promised efforts for the allround …
Panchayat and Rural Development Minister, Gopal Bhargav met the Union Rural Development Minister, CP Joshi here today and requested the latter to accord early sanction to the Rs 791 crore pending proposals of nine districts under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana. Bhargav also urged the Union Rural Development Minister …
SHILLONG: Meghalaya is lagging behind other states in implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sarak Yojana (PMGSY). Though a total of 129 rural habitations were connected with roads in various parts of the State in the past one year, the progress is still inadequate. "We have only submitted the Detailed …
Akshaya Kumar Sahaoo Prime Minister Gramin Sadak Yojana, the flagship rural road connectivity project, has failed to make much headway in coastal Orissa which has, of late, become a hub for a number of dreaded crime syndicates WITH GANGSTERS on the prowl, the centrally-funded Prime Minister Gramin Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) …
Bowing to pressure from the hilly border State of Arunachal Pradesh, the Central Government has awarded a whopping financial package of Rs 300 crore to the State to bridge the existing
In a disclosure that can put the States on the back foot, the Outcome Budget of Rural Development Ministry shows that States did not spend a whopping Rs 18,000 crore out of their total allocation of Rs 56,854 crore in the last fiscal. The un-utilisation of almost one third of …
The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) may have returned to power on the might of its flagship programmes in its last term, but one of its major programmes, the Bharat Nirman, is caught in delays. Refusing to own the whole responsibility, the Centre has also held the states responsible. Highly-placed official …
Charanjit Ahuja Chandigarh: The Himachal Pradesh government plans to connect all villages with population of at least 250 in the state by 2012. About Rs 1,280 crore has been allocated in the current financial year for the construction of roads and bridges under various schemes. Most of the 17,449 villages …
The government's flagship job security scheme - the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (nrega) -is set to undergo major changes by opening its doors to skilled labour and laying emphasis on creation of 'permanent' or 'viewable' assets. The idea, first mooted by Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia some …
Himachal Government has prepared an ambitious plan to connect all villages with road, having a population of over 250 people, by 2010 and improve overall connectivity by building a network of National and State highways and arterial roads, Public Works Minister Gulab Singh Thakur said on Friday. Thakur said villages …
Amit Agnihotri July 2: As part of its 100-day agenda, the rural development ministry is planning annual employment reports for NREGS and revamp of banks and post-offices to facilitate payment of remuneration under the rural job scheme. Sources in the ministry said the department is planning further revamp of post-offices …
The Union Cabinet secretary and a battery of senior officials from New Delhi will be visiting Jharkhand on Sunday to review ongoing development programmes and the prevailing law and order situation in the backdrop of an anti-Maoist operation in neighbouring Bengal. Cabinet secretary K.M. Chandrashekhar, who last visited the state …
The State government became numero uno in the country in implementing Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna (PMGSY) and set an ambitious plan to achieve cent per cent target in the coming five years. Talking to reporters here today state Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Gopal Bhargav said that in the …
Sreelatha Menon / New Delhi June 11, 2009, 0:21 IST Three political parties and four ministers, three of them first-time MPs, are sharing the Ministry of Rural Development, which probably means the most to the government in terms of Budget allocations, as well as recognition for its work for the …
Working Plank ? CMs of states that efficiently implemented aam admi schemes were able to deliver the goods ? YSR spent Rs 5,000 crore on health. Two and a half million farmers benefited from the loan waiver. ? In BJP-ruled Chhattisgarh, the Rs 3 per kg rice scheme was a …
LUCKNOW: PWD minister Naseemuddin Siddiqui while expressing displeasure over the poor quality of road construction in the state said that some officers are giving boost to corruption by showing repairing of same roads again and again. He said the concerning officers should assign the construction work to efficient and honest …
Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, who was crying foul against the Centre for its partial attitude during the election campaign, revealed that the Centre has sanctioned Rs 854 crores under the Pradhan Mantri Gramin Sadak Yojana (PMGSY).
