Reply affidavit filed by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the matter of Debadityo Sinha & Others Vs Union of India & Others. An application filed before the NGT said that illegal construction activities and clearing the vegetation and forest using massive earthwork and levelling the land …
Villagers opposing land acquisition clashed with police at Asalwas, 90 km from Delhi, on Sunday, torching several vehicles and blocking the Delhi-Jaipur National Highway. The police opened fire to disperse the protesters. Over 60 people, including police personnel, were injured when protesters — opposing the acquisition of 3,300 acres in …
OVer 40 people, including policemen, sustained injuries as villagers agitating against land acquisition clashed with the police and set fire to state-run buses in Haryana’s Rewari district on Sunday. Three Haryana Roadways buses, one Rajasthan Roadways bus, two fire tenders and a truck were torched after farmers reacted to a …
The overall green cover in the National Capital Region has witnessed an increase, according to data compiled by the NCR Planning Board. “Though the Board is making efforts to increase the green cover in this region what is heartening is that in the last couple of years the green cover …
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has approved a Rs 100-crore project to improve supply of drinking water in Rewari district in Haryana. A spokesman of the Haryana Public Health Engineering Department said NABARD had also approved another project for augmentation of water supply in 15 schemes at …
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) has approved a Rs 100.47-crore project to improve supply of drinking water in Rewari district in Haryana. A spokesman of Haryana Public Health Engineering Department said that Nabard has also approved another project for augmentation of water supply in 15 schemes …
The Haryana Government is setting up night shelters in all districts of the state to facilitate urban homeless persons. Such shelters have either already been constructed or are under construction. The night shelters are being constructed on the directions of the Supreme Court to arrange food and night stay and …
The state Cabinet, which met under the chairmanship of Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Wednesday, decided to amend its Rehabilitation and Resettlement Policy-2010. It was decided to fix the floor rate of Rs 25 lakh per acre for area situated within the final development plan of Faridabad-Ballabhgarh Controlled …
Chandigarh: Haryana Renewable Energy Development Agency (HAREDA) has decided to install solar photovoltaic (SPV) street lighting system in 56 villages in three more districts namely
Chandigarh: The Haryana forest minister Ajay Singh Yadav said the Centre has sanctioned Rs 23 crore under National Afforestation Programme and its first installment Rs 11.15 crore has already been received. Yadav was presiding over the meeting of divisional forests officers (DFOs), which was called to review the progress of …
Chandigarh: Haryana is parched. Water supply from the Bhakra dam is down to nearly half of what was available last year, the rotational supply is being released every 32 days against 16 days, seven of the 21 districts are grappling with water woes. As if that
Haryana Government has envisaged a plan to promote agro forestry system in the State under which seedlings of various species of economically important trees would be planted on farm land by the forest department and incentive would be given to the farmers at the rate of Rs 2 and Rs …
Haryana, at the time of its creation from the womb of Punjab was partly a parched state. Large areas were dry treeless sand dunes. Even drinking water was a privilege. Its has taken long strides since then. The State is becoming a real green land. All the villages get potable …
The spectre of drought looms large over eight Haryana districts facing acute water shortage. There was shortfall of about 7,000 cusecs of water per day as the supply from the Sutlej and Yamuna canal water schemes has dropped to 50 per cent. While water for irrigation has become scarce in …
The Rajiv Gandhi Thermal Power Plant at Khedar in Hisar is progressing well, said Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, while inaugurating a 33 KV sub-station in Sector 10 in Rewari. Hooda said a massive plan has been implemented to get 5,000 MW of additional power in the state. The construction …
The Rajiv Gandhi Thermal Power Plant at Khedar in Hisar is progressing well, said Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, while inaugurating a 33 KV sub-station in Sector 10 in Rewari. Hooda said a massive plan has been implemented to get 5,000 MW of additional power in the state. The construction …
Its good news for the farmers of Haryana, who have to bear burgeoning losses, amounting up to Rs 55,000 crore per year, due to lack of proper post harvest management system in the state. The Haryana State Agricultural Marketing Board (HSAMB) has planned to develop collection centres, commodity hubs and …
Chandigarh In the agrarian states of Punjab and Haryana, power cuts have been the order of the day for years. This, in turn, has affected economic development in these states. While the two states have decided to spend almost one-third of their five-year Plan for 2007-12 on power projects, they …
