THE UPA government

The number of people living in acute poverty in Mizoram are fast increasing but the successive governments continue to display indifferent attitude to this issue.

In Aizawl alone there are over 60,000 people living in Mizoram version of slum areas. They are officially called

The housing and urban poverty alleviation ministry is facing teething problems trying to formulate the implementation and financing pattern of the UPA government

Tripura Government has urged the Centre to introduce an employment guarantee scheme for the urban poor on the lines of NREGA.

The high level committee of urban development ministry today decided to have in-depth study on three major projects under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) before giving it a final shape.

Only Select States May Have Access To Funds Based On Reforms Undertaken
Amiti Sen & Arindam Ghosh NEW DELHI

Sandeep Joshi

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh presents the JNNURM Award for Best City and Mass Transit Projects to Mumbai, during the National Conference on the JNNURM, in New Delhi on Thursday.

Despite the centrally sponsored reform-linked scheme for sprucing up local infrastructure in select cities under the UPA government

Kakoly Chatterjee, Yogima Seth

SHILLONG, Nov 26: The politics surrounding the third phase of the Greater Shillong Water Supply Scheme (GSWSS) has eventually been cleared after the Meghalaya United Alliance (MUA) Government assigned the Public Health Engineering (PHE) to allocate the construction work of the mega project funded under the Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewable Mission (JNURM).