Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Jagan Prasad Tehriya Vs State of Uttar Pradesh dated 23/05/2025. The applicant has alleged large-scale illegal felling of green trees within the Agra district, Uttar Pradesh. The application revealed instances of illegal tree felling at Fatehabad, Sadar, Kiraoli and Agra …
People from 35 coastal villages in Vasai, Thane district, began their long march to the Vidhan Bhavan on Sunday to press their long-standing demand for exclusion from the Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation. Thousands of villagers, including farmers and fisherfolk, participated in the march on foot, which is set to last over …
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 …
Minister for Rural Development and Parliamentary Affairs, Ali Mohammad Sagar has said that proposal for construction of Chhatroo-Singhpora-Vailoo tunnel is under consideration, adding that study of the project has been conducted and recently mode of execution of the project discussed at a high level meeting. Replying to a question by …
LUCKNOW: The forest department has got a target of planting over 2 crore saplings in the year 2011-12. However, it is the rural areas that may get far more saplings when compared to the city areas. Reason: The funds for plantation in 74 forest divisions come through Mahatma Gandhi Rural …
THE Supreme Court has directed all state governments to demolish unauthorised constructions on gram sabha lands and evict squatters. A bench comprising Justice Markandeya Katju and Justice Gyan Sudha Mishra asked chief secretaries of States and Union Territories to comply with its order on the issue and file periodical compliance …
Expressing grave concern over the malaise of land grabbing even reaching remote villages of the country, the Supreme Court in an unprecedented order has sought detailed report form chief secretaries of the states and Union Territories about vanishing of vast chunk of
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 …
SANJEEB MUKHERJEE PMEAC chairman C Rangarajan has favoured increasing the ambit of the proposed Food Security Act to cover 50% population in rural areas and 30% in urban cities, more than what was recommended by the Sonia Gandhi headed National Advisory Council. Rangarajan has also asked the Food Ministry to …
Deepa Jainani Posted: Wednesday, Dec 15, 2010 at 0042 hrs IST Tags: Noida Realty | Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority | Yamuna Expressway New Policy | UP Govt | Noida Urban Zone Comments Email print Financial Express Facebook Twitter more In an out of-the-box way of policy-making which creates an …
Construction of new roads and upgradation of certain inter-village routes in Manipur under the Centrally sponsored schemes such as Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) has started to change the lifestyles of several villagers.
This paper draws on case studies in Mali, Nigeria, Tanzania and Vietnam to explore the different ways in which migration intersects with the changing relations between rural and urban areas and activities, and in the process transforms livelihoods and the relations between young and older men and women. Livelihood strategies …
Bhopal, Aug 11:A State level review and development meet was organised by NABARD on Wednesday with an objective to evolve a strategy to make Krishak Clubs more responsive to the emerging needs.Senior officers from commercial banks, regional rural banks, cooperative banks and NGOs participated in the meet and expressed their …
The state cabinet chaired by the Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan has taken a decision to strengthen the rural transport system as per the Transport Policy 2010. According to the transport policy the routes have been divided into two categories - general route and rural route.The general route will …
Rural Development Ministry Hopes Plan Panel Will Oblige, Points To Deficit Of 10,000 croreDevesh Kumar NEW DELHI GASPING for want of funds, UPA government
Have huge inflows of speculative capital in the post-reform period affected the role of development institutions and banks like the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, the apex bank for institutional credit in rural India? In order to prevent a possible appreciation of the currency, which would have had …
