BHOPAL: The Public Health Engineering Department has completed 621 drinking water schemes sanctioned under Bundelkhand package so far at a cost of Rs 21.29 crore.

Total 1287 drinking water schemes costing about Rs 100 crore were sanctioned to 6 districts under Bundelkhand package, including Sagar, Chhatarpur, Panna, Tikamgarh, Damoh and Datia. Public Health Engineering Minister GaurishankarBisen has directed departmental officers to complete under-construction schemes under the package at the earliest.

Steel producer Southern Ispat & Energy Ltd (SIEL) is planning to enter into backward integration by setting up a 1.2 -million tonne pelletisation plant in Chattarpur, Madhya Pradesh. With an estimated investment of Rs 300 crore, the plant is set to start operations by April 2014.

SIEL will invest Rs 150 crore in the first phase. The remaining investment would be done in the second phase. The company has already acquired 100 acres in Chattarpur and is expected to start its beneficiation and pelletisation process by April 2014, said a senior company official.

Bhopal, 25 July: Madhya Pradesh government has decided to allot over 282 hectares of land to NTPC for setting up two thermal power projects in the state.

Madhya Pradesh Government on Wednesday extended the tenure of the Union Carbide Toxic Gas Leak Probe Commission by an year, sources said.

Solar photovoltaic plants of 280 kilowatt have been fitted with the cooperation of the New and Renewable Energy Department in 28 community health centres in the state with a view ensuring to availa

Bhopal : Secretary Mineral Resources and chairman of State Geological Programme Board Shri S.K.

The status of groundwater situation in Madhya Pradesh monitored by Central Groundwater Board in its January 2011 report shows a decline as compared to levels in previous years.

Groundwater levels have declined in 57 per cent of wells, of which about 40 per cent show a decline up to 2 metre, especially in eastern and central parts of Madhya Pradesh.

Expansion of irrigation facilities in the six districts of Bundelkhand region is in full swing in Madhya Pradesh. For the purpose, the State Government has framed a special action plan worth `1,118 crore.

Under the plan, various projects have been initiated in the region.

The works will be completed in three years.

Bhopal, Jan 4: So far Rs 12 crore 68 lakh has been given as livelihood to 5 thousand 747 self-help groups in 14 backward districts of the state where the second phase of District Poverty Initiative Project (DPIP) is being implemented during the year 2010-11.