Providing a much-needed fillip to Tata Steel, a high-powered committee of the environment and forests ministry has recommended granting environmental clearance to the company
A public sector company successfully took solar lighting systems to a sceptical tribal population in Bastar.
In 2008, the public sector company, Central Electronics Limited, undertook a major solar electrification programme in the tribal villages of Bastar in Chhattisgarh. It was co-funded by the Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs and the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.
Farmers of the state will get such variety of mustard seeds which will mature within short period and will be with more oil content. The Regional Agriculture Research Centre, Morena of the Rajmata Vijayaraje Agriculture University has developed a new variety of mustard seed, 'Rajmata Mustard-1'. This has proved successful in the field tests during the last five years.
Raipur: The sal seed harvested by tribals through large parts of Naxalism-affected districts of Orissa and Chhattisgarh is bought by global chocolate manufacturers. But those chocolates cannot come to India.
Under the Food and Adulteration Act, use of butter extracted from sal seed in place of cocoa is prohibited in the country.
Villagers protesting against the proposed steel plant of Tatas in Bastar brutally assaulted an administrative offier when he went to an affected village to start project work.
The official, Naib Tehsildar P R Magaria, suffered head injuries and was admitted to a government hospital in Jagdalpur, the divisional headquarters of Bastar. Magaria is posted at Lohandiguda development block.
R Krishna Das / Kolkata/ Raipur May 03, 2010, 0:08 IST
To step up land acquisition for the proposed Tata Steel plant in Bastar, Chhattisgarh government has come out with a proposal to give subsistence allowance to the villagers losing their land to the project.
