Solar water scheme transforms lives in Bhansi
Like hundreds of other villages across Chhattisgarh, the residents of Bhansi village of the district in Bastar division have also been relieved from the persistent drinking water supply problem through
Like hundreds of other villages across Chhattisgarh, the residents of Bhansi village of the district in Bastar division have also been relieved from the persistent drinking water supply problem through
Contamination of water by NMDC iron ore mine’s refuse has affected livelihoods Budhram, a farmer of Kadampal village in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district, owns five acres of agricultural land and has
Bio farming has altered the direction and way of 2,000-year-old traditional agricultural practices of farmers residing in villages such as Bhusaras, Hiranaar and Surnaar of Dantewada district of Bastar
Petition challenges concessions given to mining giants by Chhattisgarh government July has been a bitter month for the mining tycoons of the country. In the first week, the CBI pulled up JSPL (Jindal Steel & Power Ltd.) chief Naveen Jindal, who allegedly misrepresented facts in the coal blocks allocation scam, while the Dongria Kondhs, a primitive hill tribe, came together to obstruct a mega project of Vedanta Alumina in southern Orissa.
On 25 May, the ghastly Naxal attack on a convoy of Congress leaders in Darbha, Chhattisgarh, jolted political leaders across the spectrum. Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh — who has been
The Chhattisgarh government has demanded that NMDC Ltd immediately start supplying iron ore to mineral-starved steel and sponge iron plants in the state and has threatened that if the state-owned miner
On January 13, 2006, six coal blocks of BJP-ruled Chhattisgarh were allotted to various companies. The same day, four more blocks, in Orissa and Jharkhand, were allotted to companies that included some
Tata steel has got another breather as the Chhattisgarh government has renewed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) it had signed for setting up a mega steel plant in Bastar region for the third time. The steel major is setting up a 5.5 Million Tonne Per Annum (MTPA) Greenfield integrated steel plant in Lohandiguda area of Bastar district. The company has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Chhattisgarh Government in on June 6, 2005. The MoU was valid for three years.
NMDC, whose presence in Bailadila predates the Naxal problem, now pours money into security and faces issues of despatching the ore India’s finest iron ore deposits rise abruptly from the forest floor — 32 km of undulating massiveness, four km wide and over 1,260 metres above sea level at its highest point. From the densely wooded plains of Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district, its swelling shape resembles an ox’s hump, prompting the tribes who have lived under its shadow for centuries to name it ‘Bailadila’.
Global audit major KPMG has selected Dantewada Education City as one of the 100 urban infrastructure projects in the world. Coming up over 170 acres at Gidam on the Jagdalpur-Bijapur NH-30, the Education