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Forest dept, public join hands to build RCC bridge
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Motiur Rahman, the Forest Range Officer of JV Range, Doboka, who has achieved considerable success in forestry management has taken up an initiative to provide better communication facility by constructing a concrete bridge at the snapped portion of the existing 2-km flood embankment
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Christian group demands jobs, protection for riot victims
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A Christian group Tuesday demanded adequate jobs and protection for riot victims in Orissa's Kandhamal district where at least 38 people were killed during communal violence in 2008.
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UNICEF assures full support to State Govt
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UNICEF India Country Office representative Karin Hulshof on Wednesday assured full support to the Government to accelerate the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) while addressing an assembly of Deputy Commissioners
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Good god! Villagers worship pumpkins in Orissa
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God is everywhere. Why, according to farmers in an Orissa village He's present even in a pumpkin.
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MoU signed for water supply to Kma town
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A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on Monday between the stated government represented by Zhaleo Rio, IAS, Secretary PHED and the village Councils of Mima and Kezoma villages, the water source owners.
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Orissa govt targets electrifying 12,000 villages by June
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Orissa govt targets electrifying 12,000 villages by June. The decision was taken at a high-level meeting convened by the Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to assess the progress of the rural electrification under these two schemes.
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5,653 acres of land acquired for relocation
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The State Government has identified and acquired 5,653 acres of land for the construction of houses for the flood-hit families in north Karnataka.
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Water in 19,000 TN villages not potable
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Groundwater in over 19,000 villages across Tamil Nadu is ‘unsafe’ for human consumption and dangerously contaminated with nitrates and fluoride.
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DoNER sub-committee tasked to prepare plan for uplift
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Ministry for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) is slated to play a more constructive role in the backward region of Meghalaya’s Garo Hills districts with its sub-committee comprising experts from various departments tasked with coming out with a comprehensive plan
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Panchayats told to hold gram sabha meetings on Tuesday
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All 1,104 panchayats in Villupuram district should conduct gram sabha meetings without fail on January 26.
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Landless yet to benefit from Government land distribution
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Krushna Majhi, 44, head of a landless family, from Orissa’s Jagatsinghpur district had a dream to die having a piece of land of his own.
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Police lathicharge to disperse DYFI members
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Police resorted to a mild lathicharge to disperse the members of Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), who picketed vehicular movement at New Azhagapuri village near Vedasandur, here today.
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Sikkim Panchayats must learn and improve: Chamling
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A State level Panchayat Sammelan was held today at Sichey, which organised by the Rural Management and Development Department (RMDD).
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Tribals clash with police in Orissa
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Hundreds of tribal villagers opposing the construction of a road clashed with police near an industrial area in Orissa"s Jajpur district Tuesday, said an official.
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Load-shedding to hit piped water supply in villages
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Anxiety level of urban Orissa went up when the Orissa Electricity Regulatory Commission (OERC) recently allowed distribution companies to go for load-shedding as it would spoil a few hours of their ‘comfort’ life.
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Central team visits drought-hit villages in Western Orissa
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A two-member Central team which visited seven villages in the drought-hit Kuchinda sub-division of Sambalpur district described the situation as grave, District Collector Hemanta Kumar Dash, who accompanied the team said.
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Demand for settlement of land records in Malkangiri district
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The citizens of Malkangiri district are planning to take up the path of agitation if the process of settlement of land records is not taken up in the district by then.
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Gandhian Thakkar conferred ‘Lifetime Service Award’
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The Chuchuyimlang Senso Mongdang conferred the ‘Lifetime Service to Naga People Award’ to the Gandhian Natwar Thakkar, the founder-secretary of Nagaland Gandhi Ashram at an impressive function at Chuchuyimlang village in Mokokchung district of Nagaland.
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Protest against elevated expressway on December 31
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Putting up a united front against the elevated expressway project along the beach, 10 fishing villages along the stretch came together here on Monday to pass a resolution against the project.
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CRPF organizes medical camp in West Midnapore
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The 165th battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has set-up medical camps in Maoist infested West Midnapore region of West Bengal, to create confidence among villagers.
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Urbaninsation takes a toll on villagers
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Pitambar Nayak, a 54-year-old resident of Gadakana village in Bhubaneswar, which is fast acquiring status of a mini-metro, suddenly feels his sphere has been squeezed and he has turned a slum dweller in his own village.
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Ten dalit families face social ostracisation in Ganjam
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Ten dalit families of Thuruburei village of Shergarh block in Ganjam district are alleged to be facing severe casteist social ostracisation.
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This aqueduct serves as a ‘bridge’ to link Kodagu and Mysore
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This aqueduct is special not only for carrying water from the Harangi Reservoir to the neighbouring Periyapatna and surrounding areas of Mysore district facilitating irrigation but also for the reason that it is used by the people as a 'bridge' to go to several villages located in Mysore.
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Chiksugur residents move to temporary sheds
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Displaced families from Chiksugur village near Raichur have been finally shifted to a temporary shed erected on a land that belongs to the Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB) near the village.
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State accomplished Gandhiji’s wish: Khing
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Delegation of power to the people is the philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the nation and Nagaland is the luckiest state to implement Gandhiji’s wish through village development board and communitization, said R.Khing, Parliamentary Secretary for Horticulture Thursday.
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