JAMMU, Apr 24: Reiterating Government's determination for providing better basic amenities to the people of the State, Minister for Revenue, Relief and Rehabilitation, Raman Bhalla today said Government has introduced several modern projects across the State to meet the basic requirements of the people, adding worth crores of rupees have been earmarked for construction of new flyovers, tube wells,

Deadline approaching; Govt, NHPC still at loggerheads
JAMMU, Apr 21: The State Government and National Hydroelectric Project Corporation (NHPC) are at loggerheads, as the Corporation has not registered any of its projects under the Jammu and Kashmir State Water Resources Management Act despite the fact that only three weeks time-frame has been left for the same.

As per the provisions of J&K St

JAMMU, Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah on Wednesday underlined the need of a comprehensive and well structured policy for Disaster Management in the State to deal with incidents of natural calamities and disasters appropriately.

"All the necessary requirements of 3Ps (prevention, preparedness and proofing) and 3Rs (rescue, relief and rehabilitation) should be factored in the policy", he said dire

Jammu, Minister for Rural Development, Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Ali Mohammad Sagar has said that State and Divisional level monitoring cells would be set up to ensure speedy and transparent implementation of MGNREGA.

The Minister was addressing the 3rd State Employment Guarantee Council meeting here today.

Calling for effective monitoring of the scheme at all levels, Mr.

Rs 191 cr for Mughal road from PMRP
JAMMU, The State Government has kept Rs 2320 crore for Social Services from Rs 6600 crore worth annual plan during current financial year.

JAMMU, Minister for Revenue, Relief and Rehabilitation, Raman Bhalla, today said Government is launching several reformative measures to better living standards of urban slum population of the State.

This was stated by the Minister while interacting with locals after assessing the development related problems of the residents of Kaccha Talab in Bahu Fort area.

The Minister said that the func

Minister for PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control, Taj Mohi-ud- Din today reviewed the pace of work on the Hydraulic projects under execution in the Ramanagar area of Udhampur district.

He was informed that Rs.

JAMMU, Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah on Thursday underlined the need for comprehensive and balanced development of twin capital cities and towns in the State keeping in view the challenges on account of sewerage, drainage, transport, parking, housing and commercial activities.

Chairing a high level meeting to take brief about the reforms in urban development sector, the Chief Minister stressed

SRINAGAR, Jammu & Kashmir is well on path of achieving 100 percent literacy rate as the figures in respect of literacy for Census 2011 have shown an increase of more than 13 percent over the census of 2001. The same has jumped to 68.74 percent from 55 percent from the last census.

JAMMU, Chief Secretary, Madhav Lal today asked the concerned agencies to work out solutions to the bottlenecks coming in the way of on time completion of Rs. 262.15 crore sewerage treatment projects in the mission cities of Jammu and Srinagar.