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 …
ITANAGAR: The Union Road Transport & National Highways ministry has approved the 407 km Putin-Pangin road which passes through three districts of Arunachal Pradesh. The road, part of the ambitious Trans-Arunachal Highway (TAH), which will touch Ziro, Daporijo and Aalo was approved by Union Road Transport & National Highways Minister …
SIVASAGAR: The Assam Minister for Fishery and Information and Public Relations, Basanta Das paid a visit to the Fishery Training Centre at Joysagar in Sivasagar on Tuesday. The Minister took stock of the present condition of the Fishery Training Centre which was established in the year 1961 by the bank …
Several development projects have been initiated in the Wilpattu National Park, to attract more tourists, coinciding with 2012 Deyata Kirula development programme. The construction of a 100 kilometre new internal road network to enable visitors to reach historic monuments and to see wildlife, demarcation of tourist camp sites along the …
ISLAMABAD: The government has released and utilised Rs 23.331 billion to all four provinces and Gilgit Baltistan through Ministry of Communication against the total allocation of Rs 39.900 billion, showing 41 releases of the total by end of first six months of the current fiscal year 2011-12, sources told Daily …
GUWAHATI: In a bid to develop the roads in the State, the National Highway Division of the PWD has taken a slew of initiatives. While addressing the reporters here today, Chief Engineer, PWD, NH Nripendra Nath Deka informed that the PWD had taken a new project to make the Numaligarh …
The Gujarat government has approached the Urban Development Ministry seeking 25 per cent Central funding for the Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad Metro Development Project. Though the ministry has generally followed a model as per which it provides 20 per cent of the cost project as financial assistance, it was currently evaluating …
SHILLONG: The Leader of Opposition in Meghalaya Legislative Assembly demanded the State Government to close all the cement plants operating illegally in Jaintia Hills district, which have violated the Forest Conservation Act, 1980. Speaking to reporters in Shillong on Friday, Conrad Sangma said, “The high level committee of the government …
After a long hiatus, the state government has given its nod to another cluster redevelopment project - that of the century-old Botawala chawl in Masgaon. The redevelopment of the chawl is only the fifth such project to be sanctioned in three years since the rules for cluster scheme came in …
In yet another push for the redevelopment of Dharavi slums, the Maharashtra government on Tuesday announced four floor space index under the revised Development Control Regulations (DCR). The state government plans to provide 300 sq ft of carpet area for the existing occupier of a structure free of cost and …
Bhopal : NABARD chief general manager S Akbar on Wednesday said 8% agriculture growth in the last fiscal in Madhya Pradesh is an encouraging development given that 70% people are dependent on agriculture in the state. “This financial year, the state government wants to rev up agriculture growth to 10%,” …
The 12th five-year plan, whose period is just about four months away, will see a significant focus on promotion of science and technology and public-private partnership in research areas. “The science and technology sector will occupy the centrestage in the 12th five-year plan. We are aiming to propel India from …
The ambitious Rs 15,000-crore Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP), which aims to redevelop the largest slum in Mumbai, got a shot in the arm on Tuesday with the state government approving the new Development Control Rules (DCR) for the project. On Monday, the government had announced that the current occupiers of …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government will shortly send the action plan under the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) to the Centre for approval. Though the Government had decided to include all the blocks under NRLM in phases during the next five years, the programme will be implemented in four blocks each …
ALAPPUZHA: Defence Minister A K Antony inaugurated the Rs 491-crore Japan Drinking Water Project at Cherthala, near here, on Tuesday. Antony said that political parties in the state should follow the parties in Tamil Nadu, Bengal and northern states on developmental issues. They often fight with each other on political …
After growing at a fast rate, the farm sector today faces stagnation. The possibility of a second Green Revolution rests with the marketing and development of crops other than rice and wheat. Farmers, cooperatives and governments have proved their inability in doing so. Hence, the need for foreign investment in …
The government today approved a proposal to sanction over Rs 19,000 crore for the Udhampur- Baramulla rail project that was announced over 17 years ago to connect Kashmir Valley with Jammu. The approval was given at a meeting of the Union Cabinet, official sources said, adding that the fund will …
Urges Montek to consider changes for effective implementation of projects in LWE-affected areas With an eye to ensure that the government’s development efforts are effective in the Left Wing extremistaffected areas, the rural development ministry is pushing to make block the basic unit and involve elected representatives in the rolling …
This is then the challenge of 2012 and beyond. The world is on the boil and the steam of anger will not dissipate. The question is whether these protests can be channeled to etch new, better pathways of growth.
Programmes to address global warming and promote green development, such as Payments for Ecosystem Services and Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and [forest] Degradation financed by carbon-offset trading, are framed by a world-as-market paradigm that subsumes social goals within a project of globalized eco-economic management. Because market-based strategies reinforce existing property …
This report provides the foundation and overview for a series of papers focusing on the particular challenges posed by the cumulative effects of climate change, migration, and conflict in some of our world’s most complex environments. In the papers following this report, plan to outline the effects of this nexus …
