The Bikaner Development Authority Bill, 2025, passed by the Rajasthan Assembly, aims to establish a Bikaner Development Authority to regulate development activities in the Bikaner district. The bill was passed by voice vote, with the opposition Congress walking out of the House due to insufficient discussion. The bill was introduced …
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Friday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and sought a Rs.1,000-crore package immediately to carry out relief and rehabilitation work in the State’s flood-affected areas. Mr. Virbhadra informed Dr. Singh that so far 24 lives have been lost in the State while 1,239 people …
Out of 40 constituencies in the state, Sanvordem, Sanguem and Sattari, which constitute the mining belt, will get Rs 20 cr each In a bid to offset the adverse impact on economy due to ban on mining, Goa Government will spend Rs 150 crore on various developmental works mostly in …
To get additional Rs 10,000 cr through Central assistance: Ahluwalia The Planning Commission on Wednesday approved a whopping Rs 47,000-crore plan size for Karnataka for the year 2013-14, up by 11.8 per cent from the previous fiscal. Planning Commission Deputy chairperson Montek Singh Ahluwalia, who held a meeting with Chief …
It’s clear that the devastation caused by the flash floods and landslides in Uttarakhand was at least in part due to environmental degradation of fragile mountain slopes and reckless commercialization. Yet, weeks before the calamity — during a meeting in Delhi with plan panel deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on …
Jaipur: The Pachpadra village in Barmer where the new refinery will come up, will have a separate master plan for regulated development of the region. The urban development & housing department on Wednesday took a decision to keep Pachpadra expansion aside from the master plans of Barmer and Jodhpur and …
This will be in addition to the central financial assistance of about Rs 95 crore already sanctioned during the current fiscal The Tourism Ministry today sanctioned a Rs 100 crore special financial package for restoration and reconstruction of the government tourist facilities damaged due to rains and floods in Uttarakhand. …
The WIR 2013 presents the latest trends in foreign direct investment (FDI) and contains in-depth analysis of policy developments, investment prospects, and key emerging issues related to investment -- including financial flows via offshore centres, and divestments.
The draft of the upcoming 13th three-year plan prepared by the National Planning Commission (NPC) has targeted to reduce the poverty to 18 per cent from existing 23.8 per cent. The draft of the strategy of the 13th interim three-year-plan (2013 -2016), which was made public here Monday amidst a …
Against the backdrop of the Uttarakhand disaster, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday stressed that the ecology and biodiversity should be protected while carrying out development projects. "I believe that the ecology and biodiversity should be protected," Gandhi said while laying the foundation stone of 850-MW Rattle power project in …
New Delhi: Under attack for its poor project implementation track record, the government plans to remove environmental and coal-related hurdles for large projects on a weekly basis. Starting this week, the Project Monitoring Group (PMG) constituted recently by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, will take up projects that have been stuck, …
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 driving the development agenda in the tribal areas and is known to advocate a more empathetic response to …
Could the Uttarakhand tragedy have been avoided, or at least minimised? There is no simple answer. Environmentalists describe the death and damage as a man-made disaster while geologists say the extent of destruction could have been far lesser if stricter regulations had been put in place and the authorities equipped …
Union Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan on Thursday said the proposal to declare certain parts of Uttarakhand as eco-sensitive needs to be seriously considered, in view of the calamity in that state. “As the minister for environment, I feel it is an ecologically fragile zone and the eco-sensitive zone proposal needs …
KARACHI - The Sindh government has allocated Rs 6.167 billion for the development of agriculture sector while the proposed allocation would be utilised on 37 new and ongoing schemes. Syed Qaim Ali Shah, while presenting the budget for 2013-14, said the focus of this budget is optimal utilization of the …
While the government is found dragging its feet on the implementation of the Detailed Area Plan (DAP) gazetted in 2010, realtors and others have been destroying wetlands and grab water bodies in violation of the relevant laws. The government has however taken a few steps towards the implementation of the …
Acquisition of land by the government for the New Shillong Township (NST) is all set to encounter a fresh road block. Half a dozen social organizations comprising of the KSU, FKJGP, HNYF, CSWO, TUR, HANM, and villagers under the 20 village councils held a rally on Tuesday at Deingpasoh, 45 …
Medak district of Andhra Pradesh is the picture of a paradox. Known as one of the most backward districts of the Telangana region, it is also the district with the second largest number of industries in the state. Bereft of irrigation schemes, most parts of the district rely primarily on …
To the constant persuasion of Chief Minister Nabam Tuki for enhancing connectivity to the state capital, the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH), has in principle approved 4 laning of the road from Itanagar to Banderdewa and 2 laning of the road from Itanagar to Jote. The development …
New Delhi: At one level the city government is preparing a comprehensive plan to combat climate change and at another, civic society is taking matters in its own hands, calling the government’s measures so far to be unsystematic with a misplaced sense of priority. Environmentalists and activists have come together …
Development cannot take place at the cost of ecology, environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan has said, making it clear that environmental approval for projects will be given only after a fair and transparent assessment. “We, at the ministry, have to be very sure that the concerns with which we look at …
