JAIPUR: The medical, health and family welfare department managed to achieve only 85.09% of target set for full immunization of infants against various diseases in the financial year 2011-12.

The latest figures released by the health department shows that nine districts have failed to touch even 80% of the set target.It shows that there are nearly 15% of children left out from fully being vaccinated against various diseases. The vaccination targets were fixed on the basis of birth rate of the district.

Uncertainty prevails over Cairn India’s 74-km section of the 670-km-long Barmer-Jamnagar crude oil pipeline.

Cairn can raise output from its largest oilfield in Rajasthan block by 25,000 barrels per day to 150,000 bpd

After more than six-month wait, the Government today gave approval to Cairn India to raise output from its largest oilfield in Rajasthan block by 25,000 barrels per day to 150,000 bpd. Rajasthan block oversight committee, called Management Committee, at its meeting today approved raising Mangala oil field production from 125,000 bpd to 150,000 bpd, sources privy to the deliberations at the MC meeting said.

Jaisalmer/Jaipur: Mining of lignite coal in Barmer, one of the largest reserves in the country, can lead to loss of thousands of crores and burden the common man with higher power tariff if the flawed bidding process and award of contract are not reversed.

Observed by Rajasthan Electricity Regulatory Commission (RERC) in its August 17, 2011 order, came following a petition filed by Raj WestPower Ltd (RWPL) for determination of tariffs for power generation.

JODHPUR: Union Textile and Commerce & Industry minister Anand Sharma on Saturday, while expressing concern over the closed textile units, announced to set up a high level committee to look into the damages caused by the textile industry to the local environment and ecology at Jodhpur, Barmer and Pali.

Headed by secretary, textile, the committee will work out economically viable technical solutions to get over the situation

Interview with A.R. Ansari, Chairman-cum-Managing Director of the Neyveli Lignite Corporation.

JAIPUR: The Rajasthan government, for the first time, is experimenting with scientific ways for maintaining land records in the state.

Under the national land records modernization programme, the settlement department has initiated a landmapping project with the use of Electronic Total Station (ETS) technique and is planning to later use satellite images and aerial pictures.

In the remote Kailashnagar village (Jalore district), on the border of Rajasthan and Gujarat, lives Parbhu Ram, a farmer who has never been to either Punjab or Haryana.

Concern over decline of Rajasthan's State bird population

The critically-endangered grassland species, the Great Indian Bustard, will be counted in the desert terrain of Rajasthan in the second week of February. Rajasthan, specially its desert region, accounts for maximum population of the bird which is globally threatened and listed in the Red Book of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Gas And Oil Production Likely To Increase By End Of 2012