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Environment

Maharashtra wants environment committee for infrastructure work approval

Mumbai: Considering increasing number of construction works in Mumbai, Maharashtra government wants to set up a separate committee to give environmental approvals to the works.

"We have requested the Centre to allow us to form a separate sub-committee for approving infrastructure works in the city," minister of state for environment, Sachin Ahir told PTI.

Publication Date: 
10/05/2010
Daily News Analysis (Mumbai)
Tags:
Environment, Mumbai, Infrastructure Development, Daily News Analysis (Mumbai), Coastal Regulations
Health

Efficiency variation at the sub-state level: The healthcare system in Karnataka

This paper attempts an analysis of efficiency variation in health system performance in Karnataka. By using the stochastic frontier technique, it provides an idealised yardstick to evaluate the performance of the health sector.

Publication Date: 
08/05/2010
Brijesh C Purohit
Economic and Political Weekly
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Tags:
Rural Water Supply, Health, Rural Sanitation, Health Care, Rural Health, Rural Electrification, Karnataka, Economic and Political Weekly, Statistics, Infrastructure Development, Brijesh C Purohit
Economy

SC: MPLAD scheme valid

S.S. NEGI
NEW DELH
The Supreme Court on Thursday put its seal on the legality of the MPs local area development scheme under which they get Rs 2 crores for development project of their choice in their constituencies even though no provision for the money is made in the appropriation bill.

Publication Date: 
07/05/2010
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Economy, Water Supply, Electricity, Rural Development, Supreme Court, Parliament, Asian Age (New Delhi), Infrastructure Development
Habitat And Urbanisation

7 cities including Lucknow named as 'Mission cities'

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).

Publication Date: 
07/05/2010
Times of India (Lucknow)
Tags:
Development, Habitat And Urbanisation, Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), Uttar Pradesh, Agra (D), Kanpur (D), Lucknow (D), Meerut (D), Varanasi (D), Infrastructure Development, Times of India (Lucknow)
Economy

Nothing unconstitutional about MPLAD scheme, rules Supreme Court

J. Venkatesan

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday held that the Members of Parliament Local Area Development (MPLAD) Scheme, under which every MP is allotted Rs. 2 crore a year for constituency development, was intra vires the Constitution.

Publication Date: 
07/05/2010
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Economy, Water Supply, Electricity, Rural Development, Supreme Court, Parliament, Hindu (New Delhi), Infrastructure Development
Economy

Supreme Court upholds MPLAD scheme

A five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court today unanimously upheld the MP Local Area Development (MPLAD) scheme, stating that Parliament had the power to disburse funds under it.

Under the scheme, each member of Parliament is provided Rs 2 crore annually for development of his constituency. This was challenged in several public interest petitions.

Publication Date: 
07/05/2010
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Water Supply, Electricity, Rural Development, Supreme Court, Parliament, Business Standard (New Delhi), Infrastructure Development
Economy

Economic offensive

Personnel of the security forces interact with members of Salwa Judum, a vigilante group raised to fight naxalites. A file photograph.

Publication Date: 
06/05/2010
Frontline (Chennai)
Tags:
Chhattisgarh, Dantewada (D), Infrastructure Development, Bastar, Naranpur, Bijapur (D), Kanker (D), Development, Naxalites, Tribals, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana
Industry

Rescue act for industry single window

Five years after a single window system was put in place to attract investments to Jharkhand, the state industries department is giving it legal teeth through the proposed Industrial Facilitation Act, 2010.

Publication Date: 
06/05/2010
Telegraph (Ranchi)
Tags:
Land, Industry, Jharkhand, Ranchi (D), Infrastructure Development, Telegraph (Ranchi)
Industry

Accounting for green growth-II

India is poised for a rapid economic growth

Publication Date: 
06/05/2010
Chandra Bhushan
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Industrial Siting, Land Acquisition, Mining, Aluminium Industry, Water Resources, Industrial Pollution, Dams, Water Supply, Industry, Fertiliser Industry, Iron And Steel Industry, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa (Odisha), Chandra Bhushan, Financial Express (New Delhi), Infrastructure Development
Habitat And Urbanisation

BMIC project: Karnataka gets eight weeks' time to convene HLC meeting

J.Venkatesan

To look into disputes on land allotment to NICE and to submit report

Publication Date: 
05/05/2010
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Land Acquisition, Habitat And Urbanisation, Roads, Supreme Court, Karnataka, Bangalore (D), Mysore (D), Hindu (New Delhi), Infrastructure Development

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