Increasing depletion of groundwater has turned Agra into a desert. The groundwater table has gone down to 45 metres while the soil has lost its moisture and turned to coarse sand at places.
LUCKNOW: In a fresh impetus to bettering urban infrastructure in major cities of the state, the government of India has named Lucknow, Varanasi, Agra, Kanpur, Meerut, Allahabad and Mathura as mission cities under the urban infrastructure and governance (UIG) scheme of Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).
Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) retained National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) for conducting Environmental Post Evaluation of the Projects under the Schemes in the Taj Trapezium Zone. The objectives of the study was to see improvement in environmental quality on the
environs of Taj Mahal and other historical monuments, to provide
Union Minister of State, Rural Development, Pradeep Jain has written to his UP counterpart to highlight that not a single woman was issued a job card between January 2009 and December 2009 in six districts in the state namely Meerut, Agra, Aligarh, Rampur, Bijnore and Baghpat.
He said this had been discovered during a review of NREGS across the country on March 18.
Privatisation of electricity distribution in Agra might lead to anything in the future but currently, Torrent Power Ltd has made positive changes for denizens afflicted by the apathy of sarkari karmacharis.
In a novel initiative, record holders from all over India will gather at the Taj Mahal March 22 to campaign for cleaning river Yamuna. A new platform -- World Record Holders Organisation -- launched here Friday, announced the initiative. The organisation brings all Guinness World Records, Limca and India Book of Records holders under a common umbrella.
Giving rest of a big political debate on land acquisition which had arisen following the notification of over 800 villages to be included Yamuna Expressway authority, the UP government has clarified that the village land was not being acquired for the expressway, but just being notified to prevent unplanned development alongside the high-profile project.
The IAF on Wednesday successfully undertook aerial sorties to help scientists undertake study of the total solar eclipse. Two separate missions from Agra and Gwalior were flown tracking and filming the entire sequence of the solar eclipse that was deemed hugely successful by scientists associated with the experiment.
