The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme has adversely affected harvesting of Rabi crop in the Gangetic belt as labourers are busy digging ponds, leaving farmers high and dry.
In some places the labourers have even jacked up their rates, saying they will work in fields only if they get more than Rs 100 per day as wage.
With an aim to recharge the ground water table in parched Sonebhadra region state government has decided to build 1500 check dams at the cost of Rs 450 crore in this district.
Technical wing of Irrigation department is planning to enhance capacity of pump canals in several districts which would bring additional 4265 hectare area under irrigation facility.
The first phase of the head count (consus) in Uttar Pradesh is scheduled begin from next month in which biometrics data of people over 15 years of age would be collected between May 16 and June 30.
Chief Minister Mayawati has directed officials to take all necessary steps to ensure drinking water during the summer, besides speeding up the implementation of various developmental schemes. This includes Manywar Sri Kanshiramji Shahrai Gareeb Awas Yojna.
A random survey carried by Central Employment Guarantee Council (CEGC) in Uttar Pradesh has revealed misuse of funds through spending a hefty amount of allocated money on goods against norms under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREG).
Alleging the state government for being apathetic to woes of farmers, RLD on Monday demanded subsidy on transportation of Potato crop to other states which was seeing over production this season.
On the day Right to Education became a fundamental right of children, the UP government sought an assistance of Rs 150 crore from the union government to strengthen its primary education structure.
With an aim to protect bio-diversity the state government has formulated State Bio-diversity Board that would provide the technical know-how to different organisations in identifying and protecting UP's environmental resources.
