Seminar on development
Seeking to foster linkages among the Government, NGOs and corporates, the All-India Women's Education Fund Association is organising a seminar on "Building Partnerships Towards Achieving Development Goals in India" here from March 5 to 7. A three member delegation from the UN, led by Chief of Department of Economic and …
2002-03 a year of achievements: CM
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Wednesday announced that the Metro corridor from Tis Hazari to Tri Nagar would start functioning from September this year. She also announced that the period 2002-03 should be termed a year of achievements in the history of Delhi.
Project Prahari helps transform village into a role model
Under the Samaritan scheme of the Assam Police called Project Prahari, at least one remote village in the district is set to see a happier future. The project is a brainchild of the Assam DGP, Hare Krishna Deka. Ordinarily used to round up ruffians and maintain law and order, cops …
Reality bytes: PM admits 8% growth difficult to achieve
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has admitted that 8 per cent gross domestic product growth rate is difficult to achieve during the 10th Plan due to drought, but added that the target is not impossible if the challenges are faced unitedly shunning political differences. Vajpayee said this while winding up …
State 7th in human development index
As per the National Human Development Report, Karnataka ranked seventh in HDI ranking in 2001 among 15 major states. However, the state ranked 19 in terms of human development index in 1991 among 31 states and Union territories.
Pooled financing for infrastructure
With the demand on them for providing better infrastructure and basic supply and sewerage increasing, most urban local bodies in the country find it difficult to raise resources at competitive rates of interest. Till recently, the only source of funds for them was the financial institutions such as Housing and …
Work towards a developed India: Kalam
Keen on seeing India transform into a developed nation by 2020, President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam said on Sunday that no religion or individual fanaticism should be allowed to endanger the country. Speaking at the India Today Conclave, he said: "We should not allow any religion or individual fanatic to endanger …
New uses for a poison turned wrinkle warrior
It is probably to declare Botox the pencillin of the 21st century, but the deadly poison turned wrinkle remover is being put to some startling new uses. In studies around the world, botulinum toxin is being tested
Govt panels to oversee dist-level growth
With an aim to effective implementation of district-level planning, the Gujarat state government had decided to set up district level planning committees, to be headed by state ministers, who will directly supervise the developmental progress of their allocated districts. Kaushik Patel will look after Anand and Vadodara, health minister Indravadan …
Experts counsel cautious use of Narmada Water
While farmers have been eagerly awaiting Narmada water in this semiarid district, Gujarat Agricultural University (GAU) has chalked out a comprehensive research plan to study the effect of irrigation water on crops and cultivable land in the state.
Water trade is well-deep
Villagers all along the coastal and mid-ridge zone of Goa have found an ingenious way of ensuring livelihoods security, not from better crop harvests but from trading water from their private wells. While exact number of those selling water is not known, the trend is quite common across the ultimate …
Capital plan jinx haunts Jogi again
Villagers all along the coastal and mid-ridge zone of Goa have found an ingenious way of ensuring livelihoods security, not from better crop harvests but from trading water from their private wells. While exact number of those selling water is not known, the trend is quite common across the ultimate …
GDP growth pegged lower at 4.4 percent
The prolonged dry spell and the expansive drought conditions last year appears to have had a serious impact on the country's economic prospects, with the government downgrading the GDP growth projections during 2002-03 to 4.4 per cent, but pinning its hopes on services and industry to perk up the economy. …
Human development Index of State improves
The Human Development Index of Assam has gone up and the State has been ranked 14th a marked increase from the rank of 26 in 1991, according to the Economic Survey Report released here today. Assam's Human Development Index was constant since 1981 at 26th position. The State was given …
Trucks flout SC order, use Delhi as transit
The apex court order dated December 6, 2001, had stated: 'It appears that vehicles which transit through Delhi do not adhere to vehicular standards which are applicable in Delhi...they are not Euro-II compliant, nor are they using low sulphur and low benzene fuel.' The directive further stated: 'There's no reason …
Oppn to grill Govt on power, water crises
Drought situation in Karnataka, border row with Maharashtra, Cauvery water release to Tamil Nadu, failure to finalise admission policy and fee structure for admissions to professional colleges, power and water crisis, online lottery menace et al, the Opposition has no dearth of issues to corner the Government in the month-long …
RAF campaign to develop village in Doddaballapur tq
The Rapid Action Force (RAF) personnel today began their one-year campaign to develop Kesthur village of Doddaballapur taluk of Karnataka. The campaign envisages to spread awareness of hygiene, sanitation and health among villagers. Besides, the RAF personnel will do other development activities depending on the availability of resources, said Deputy …
Growth sans equity
It is easy to be cynical about Madhya Pradesh Chief Ministre Digvijay Singh's attempts at rural empowerment and social justice, and to dismiss these as a ploy to hide the state's lack of economic development during the decade that he's been at its helm. Indeed, while Digvijay Singh's strategy is …
