The Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) would receive the award of excellence for providing houses to the urban poor under the ambitious Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).

Notably, 15,000 houses for poor are being constructed in different identified localities of the city under the central funded scheme in question.

For the beautification and development of the Upper Lake, five national and international level consultants would prepare concept plan within three months on competitive basis. The better one would be accepted and the consultant would get the responsibility of the development work of the lake.

Many politicians, bureaucrats, investor and land grabbers are severely affected with decision of chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to scrap and reject the Bhopal Master Plan. Though the decision came when the city lifeline, the Upper and other lakes future was at stake. Chouhan would be remembered for long, with this decision.

No proper system exists to dispose of waste generated in city every day. Authority takes care of the town's sanitation and in the absence of bylaws even a disposal site is not specified. Many residents face problem at their colonies municipal were provided public bins but they did not have proper management of dispose garbage from public bins regularly.

With increased industrial and commercial activities, night shift has become more of a norm than an exception. However, the devastating impact it has on the psyche and the physique of the workers is generally ignored. These days, young employees working hard to make a career in BPOs are slowly turning into creatures of the night. But this ignorance behaviour comes at what cost?

New Delhi: Around 200 victims and survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy will hold a protest march in the capital on Thursday to press for their long pending demands of rehabilitation and medical care.

The Jalabhishek Abhiyan bas been specially focused this year on recharging of dried up rivers, nullahs and reservoirs. On this these, jal yatras will be taken out throughout the state for recharging of dried up water sources. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will launch the statewide campaign at Ratlam by starting the recharging work of Jaman river.

"The Real Green Revolution is about rainwater harvesting. Let us catch water where it falls. Let it transform human lives. Let it change social existence. If this happens, the world will be transformed. The world will merely be Green by rainwater harvesting-democracies."

After receiving several national level institutes, the city of lakes will now have the National Green Tribunal, which would be the judicial authority to deal with environmental related damages. The tribunal will be located at IIFM Bhopal.

The procurement which began in the state since March 15, is going on in full swing. All the 1200 procurement centres have become active now. Five lakh 30 thousand metric tonnes of wheat has been procured by March 31.