The environment minister, Mr Jairam Ramesh, on Tues- day indicated that his min- istry would not approve Adani Power

Says He Will Not Allow Chhindwara Highway To Cut Through Tiger Reserve

BLAMED by his Cabinet colleagues, particularly surface transport minister Kamal Nath, of stalling projects, environment minister Jairam Ramesh hit back saying he would further increase the rejection rate of projects.

The State Government have allotted a sum of Rs one crore 56 lakh for hail-storm affected persons of Seoni, Dindori, Balaghat, Umariya and Chhindwada districts. Concerning Collectors have been asked to utilise the allotted fund under the norms of RBC 6-4.

Environment & Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh

The State Government has recognised 36 tehsils as drought affected on the basis of norms laid down by it. For wide information to general public the Revenue Department has published a notice in this regard.

Shashikant Trivedi / New Delhi/ Bhopal March 06, 2010, 0:45 IST

An Integrated Project for Land and Eco System Management to Combat Forest Degradation and Deforestation in Madhya Pradesh is being implemented in Madhya Pradesh for checking land and forest degradation. The five-year project will be implemented in Betul, Chhindwara, Umaria and Sidhi districts.

Jabalpur division has topped in the implementation of Ladli Laxmi Yojana introduced in the State two years ago. So far, 2,50,702 girls have been benefited by this novel scheme out of which 58,424 girls belong to Jabalpur division. Chhindwara has topped in the implementation of the scheme among the districts. As many as 16,402 girls got the benefit of the scheme in this district.

Letter to M/s Western Coal Field from Ministry of Environment & Forests regarding TOR of Bhakra UG (0.27 MTPA in 227.141 ha) of M/s Western Coalfields Ltd (WCL), dist. Chindwara, M.P. dated 20 March, 2009.

Chhindwada told candidates thirty-odd villages in Madhya Pradesh used the recent assembly elections to press an unusual demand: increase the number of employment days under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 (nrega) from 100 to 150. Twenty-eight villages in Saunsar tehsil in Chhindwada district asked the candidates vying for assembly seats to include the demand in

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