In order to use tenanted land for setting up of projects for community or public purpose, the Goa government has introduced the Goa Land Use (Regulation) Bill, 2024 seeking amendment to Section 3 of Goa Land Use (Regulation) Act, 1991 so as to specify in the Right to Fair Compensation …
BHUBANESWAR: For the first time in India, Orissa will become the only state to have a rehabilitation centre for industrial workers, who met with accidents while disbursing their duties. Earlier, the industrial workers were subjected only to a monetary benefit scheme following a mishap, but no other way to help …
Thailand will donate Tk 13.65 lakh to the Prime Minister's Relief and Welfare Fund for the victims of cyclone Aila that recently hit the southern coastal districts. Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya pledged this to Foreign Minister Dipu Moni at her office during his recent visit to Bangladesh, says a …
257 tsunami houses in Sinnangudi in advanced stage of construction INSPECTION: Nagapattinam Collector C. Munianathan, right, inspecting tsunami houses constructed by Rajiv Gandhi Rehabilitation project at Chinnakudi village. NAGAPATTINAM: A total of 3,095 development works are under execution under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme on an outlay of Rs. …
Ravik Bhattacharjee Posted: Friday , Jun 05, 2009 at 0145 hrs IST Gosaba (South 24 Parganas): In her address to Parliament on Thursday, President Pratibha Patil promised that the Government would provide
Nearly 12 lakh extremely poor people in 15 coastal districts of the country remain exposed to the fury of cyclone every year due to inadequate cyclone centre. Majority of the people who lost their lives in the in the cyclone Aila that battered 11 coastal districts a few days ago …
By N N Sachitanand The population has multiplied 3-fold to over 1 billion strong, the total land area remains the same. One of the key drivers of development is industrialisation, which requires land. Fresh after Independence, India had a population of around 330 million and a land area of about …
The Himachal Pradesh Cabinet on Friday decided to extend the National Health Insurance Scheme to the remaining 10 districts covering the entire State during the current financial year. The schemes provides for free insurance cover of Rs 30,000 to Rs 2,98,291 for Below Poverty Line (BPL) families and is funded …
The story of UCIL-Jaduguda and the struggle of the mostly Santal Adivasi People against the company is not unknown to the general public. UCIL has been operating for over four decades now. Many of the social problems like the just compensation for the land acquired, cost of medical treatment for …
Mumbai: The much appreciated rehabilitation programme to move six villages out of Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) has hit a major road block as around 19 rehabilitated families have come back and are refusing to leave unless they are paid more money to do so. The forest department had rehabilitated …
Keeping in view the ensuing monsoon a contingency plan would be implemented in the areas of various reservoirs of Narmada Valley. The plan would include safety masseurs and other basic requirement for the needy affected families, informed chairman of NVDA KL Agrawal here at Narmada Bhawan while reviewing the rehabilitation …
A new government is at our doorstep. Here's a list of things it needs to do in the first 100 days of power. Action 100: Social Sector 1. Set up ministry for skill development 2. Tackle malnutrition 3. Launch national mission for female literacy 4. Beef up NREGA, launch plan …
Pune It has taken 13 years but a definite step has finally been taken towards setting up the second phase of the Chakan airport - a move that could result in more automobile and ancillary companies setting up shop in Pune. With a high-powered committee of the state government on …
KOLKATA, 19 MAY: The state forest department has decided to relocate a group of jackals from the Tollygunge club area to avoid a man-animal conflict. In the club area, the population of jackals had increased manifold and club officials had urged the forest department officials to take serious steps after …
This report of a conference held at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study on special economic zones raises doubts about their desirability on different counts. It is centred around three themes: (1) SEZs and economic development; (2) SEZs and distributive implications; and (3) SEZs and the legal issues.
Causing a setback to the Narmada Bachao Andolan, the MP High Court (Jabalpur bench) has allowed the Maheshwar Hydro Electric project to carry out its ongoing construction and rehabilitation works provided that none of 61 villages which are likely to face submergence partially or completely, face submergence during the course …
Aizawl: Officials on Monday maintained that compensation had been provided to the affected people of the 12 MW Serlui B hydel project which is nearing completion even as reports poured in that some families had refused to move out of the affected site alleging non-payment of compensation. Kolasib DC Dawngliana …
The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the order of Madhya Pradesh high court suspending disbursal of compensation to project-affected people of Sardar Sarovar project after allegation of corruption was levelled by Medha Patkar-led Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA). A bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) K.G.Balakrishnan said,
