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 …
Decides Govt Owing To Non-Availability Of Land In Urban Areas Jaipur: The state cabinet on Wednesday decided not to allot land to private institutions on concessional rates in areas under urban local bodies including municipal corporations, municipal councils and municipalities. The decision was taken due to the non-availability of land …
The Planning Commission approved Rs 16,300 crore for Jharkhand for 2012-13 against the last financial year’s allocation of Rs 12,232 crors. The state had demanded for Rs 15,323 crore for last year which the Planning Commission had curtailed due to non-utilization of approved funds made by Planning Commission. Chief minister …
Agartala: To ensure development of forest-dwelling communities, the Tripura Government has designated as many as 62 locations in remote parts of the state as ‘Forest Village’, said state Forest Minister Jitendra Choudhury. In such locations the state government had already extended development projects for 1508 people of 236 tribal families …
Axed trees resurface in the record books BBMP’s tree officers are under a cloud following allegations that they siphoned off crores of rupees on the pretext of paying for contract labour to fell trees which had been felled long ago. An RTI query by NGO Civic Bangalore revealed that in …
GUWAHATI: The first State review of the ongoing externally-aided projects in Assam took place today at the NEDFi House in Guwahati. The discussion was attended by Additional Chief Secretary PP Varma, Government of Assam, Principal Secretary of the Finance Department HS Das, Asian Development Bank (ADB) country director Hun Kim, …
Chalking out a roadmap for putting the sluggish economic growth on a recovery path and attracting investment by coming up with an investor-friendly tax regime with the eye on enhancing corporate participation, Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Monday hinted at a possible cut in interest rates. Indicating that he may …
Alipurduar, Aug. 5: Japan government will spend over Rs 400 crore in Bengal over the next eight years for afforestation and development of the people depending on the forests. The funds will be released by the Japan International Co-operative Agency (JICA) and north Bengal will also be covered under the …
Bhubaneswar: India and Germany on Thursday signed agreements for a Rs 365 crore loan to develop urban infrastructure in Odisha. A new chapter has opened in urban infrastructure financing in the state with the execution of agreements between Government of India and KfW, Germany on the one hand and Government …
In order to link the bypass road with Perambalur town, Rs.23 crore has been allocated, Collector Darez Ahmed told the traffic consultative committee meeting here on Wednesday. He said the works for laying these link roads would commence soon. Through these link roads it would be possible to reach the …
Within nine months of inviting proposals for building the much-delayed Sewri-Nhava Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL), the city’s development authority has hiked the project cost by Rs 830 crore to Rs 9,630 crore. The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) invited requests for qualification for the project in November last …
Move will speed up concessions to infra projects, PPP ventures to benefit Clearing bottlenecks in transfer of Government land, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today approved relaxations in the land transfer policy, which would also remove any delays in awarding concessions for infrastructure projects. The decision to relax the ban imposed …
JAIPUR: The newly formed Ranthambore Tiger and Tourism Protection Committee has assured that tigers will not be endangered in any way by allowing entry of tourists to the core areas of the Ranthambore National Park (RNP). Continuing its demand to allow entry to the core areas of RNP, the protection …
During the last three years, the Regional Climate Change Adaptation Knowledge Platform (AKP) has worked towards building bridges between existing knowledge on adaptation to climate change and the governments, agencies and communities that need this knowledge to inform their adaptation to the impacts of climate change, while working to reduce …
The CII ASCON survey, which tracks the growth of industrial sector of the economy through survey feedback received from sectoral industry associations and individual industry members, reveals deepening of the industrial slowdown in the wake of continuing issues related to high interest rate, deficient monsoon, inflation, widening fiscal and current …
Social enterprises (SEs) have the potential to make India’s spectacular growth story work better for its poor citizens. Currently, India’s rapidly growing economy has not managed to alleviate the extreme poverty of nearly half the country’s population that lives below the $1.25 per day poverty line. There are several reasons …
Land acquired was not used for intended purpose The Comptroller and Auditor General report has found several procedural lapses in the acquisition of private land for public purpose and non-utilisation of the land, acquired for the intended purpose, causing additional liabilities to the Puducherry government. The CAG report, which was …
Though councillors of the Municipal Corporation have visited several places on ‘study tours’ over the past few years and spent close to Rs 80 lakh, the civic body seems to have no knowledge about the outcome of these tours. To a question posed by a councillor, the MC has replied …
More than a month after Pranab Mukherjee resigned from the Cabinet after being nominated as the UPA’s presidential candidate, the government on Monday rationalised the total number of Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) and the Group of Ministers (GoM) to 21 as against 39 previously. According to the new list …
Commerce and Industries Minister Shri Kailash Vijayvargiya has said that Global Investors Summit to be held at Indore in October will prove to be a milestone in Madhya Pradesh’s development. Shri Vijayvargiya was reviewing preparations for the summit at Indore today. Shri Vijayvargiya took stock of major development works being …
JAMMU, July 26: Terming effective Panchayats as essential component for rural emancipation, Minister for Medical Education, R.S.Chib, today emphasized the need for stronger coordination between the people, the government and the Panchayat representatives for all round growth and development. Chairing a high level meeting held here to review the status …
