Ranchi, July 21: The progress in the Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana in the state has been miserable and the implementing agencies

-State government to promote forests to woo visitors with lodges & safaris in parks, tiger reserves

ANEETA SHARMA

A restaurant nestles on the banks of a placid lake in Hazaribagh national park. The government wants to develop such places with private participation

Ranchi, July 21: The state forests would be used to promote tourism in a major way.

The tourism department is trying to get into public-private partnerships with well-known names in the field of eco-tourism and develop a project according to the demands of tourists.

AMIT GUPTA

Ranchi, July 20: Jharkhand State Electricity Board (JSEB) owes Rs 800 crore to Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) and is the only defaulter for the past couple of years.

Top government sources said the matter was strongly raised during the July 18 review meeting of DVC by a consultative committee for ministry of power chaired by Union power minister Sushil Kumar Shinde.

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THE Jharkhand cabinet on late Wednesday cleared the much-awaited rehabilitation & resettlement (R&R) policy. This paves the way for kicking off a spate of mega steel and power ventures that have been hanging fire for years. A significant feature of the R&R policy is that the investors will have to distribute 1% of the annual net profit of the project among affected families every year. Also, the requiring body (read: investor) will have to spend 1% of their annual net profit for community development.

THE government and the steel industry locked horns on Wednesday, blaming each other for the soaring steel prices. While Tata Steel managing director B Muthuraman blamed the government for not playing a constructive and positive role to contain prices, steel secretary RS Pandey said the government has taken all possible steps to control inflation and the responsibility fell on steel companies that were still reaping high margins despite a rise in input cost.

Ranchi: The move to acquire land from ICAR's Ranchi-based Horticulture & Agro Forestry Research Programme (HARP) for a housing scheme for MPs and MLAs has been shelved. "We do not want to get into a land dispute,' Jharkhand Assembly Speaker Alamgir Alam said on Wednesday.

The oil price hike burdens already strained State finances and threatens to jeopardise welfare programmes run by State governments. THE Union government's decision to raise the prices of petroleum products has placed State governments in a quandary. While taxes on petroleum products constitute a significant proportion of a State's revenue, a reduction of these taxes could undermine the State's fiscal balance.

Co Ties Up Fuel Linkages, Plans JV With Kolkata Co For Project

A palm-sized cd has become the prized possession of Jagdish Mehta, the father of social activist Lalit Mehta, who was brutally murdered in Kandra jungles of Palamu district in Jharkhand on May 14. His eyes gleam as he holds the cd in his hands. It contains a record of a damning social audit of an nregs project in Chhatarpur block, and the old man hopes it may one day nail the