Tata Power’s Jojobera thermal power station at Jamshedpur in Jharkhand has bagged the Golden Peacock Environment Management Award for 2012.

The Dhanbad district education department is on a green mission this monsoon. It has written to government high and middle schools to constitute eco clubs to help keep campuses clean and green.

Over 45,000 kids have been identified as most malnourished in Jharkhand and a special drive is on to provide them proper nutrition, official sources said today.

State-owned Steel Authority of India Ltd’s (SAIL) plans to set up a steel-cum-fertiliser complex at Sindri in Jharkhand has run into rough weather as the project is facing huge hurdles impeding its

New Delhi Buoyed by two straight years of bumper grain harvests, the government said on Thursday it would supply nearly 10% more quality seeds than the requirement this summer to ensure sowing doesn’t get adversely affected.

The government will supply 14.18 million quintal of quality seeds this summer, compared with the demand of 12.96 million quintal, the agriculture ministry said in a statement.

Census details show spread of mobiles, TVs, bank accounts, even in poverty-stricken states household power connections still a big lack

The past decade has seen the weakest sections of the society make rapid gains in their material wellbeing, acquiring assets such as cell phones, televisions, two-wheelers and bank accounts, though almost half the population of scheduled castes and tribes (SC and ST) continue to live by the light of the humble kerosene lamp, much more than the national number of 31 per cent.

KODERMA ( JHARKHAND): Villagers today refused a dialogue with the Koderma district administration on land acquisition for a 4000 MW power project by Reliance, an official said.

Coal India (CIL) has withdrawn the authorisation for Letters of Assurance (LoAs) for two independent power plants (IPPs) and 60 captive power plants (CPPs) due to their failure to submit Commitment

Almost a year after Saranda was wrested out of Maoist control by security forces, large numbers of tribal families living in the dense forests of the Jharkhand district have found themselves left out in the cold when it comes to government assistance.

“We discovered that just about 3,000 of the 7,000-odd forest dwelling tribal families in Saranda are on the BPL [below poverty line] list,” says Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh. Those not on the list are not eligible for the Central government’s welfare schemes.

States with abundant natural resources and less economic activity are environmentally most sustainable in India, while it is just the opposite in the case of those with high intensity of economic activities, according to the Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR) here.

The Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) for Indian States 2011, a study by the Centre for Development Finance under the 1970-founded IFMR, notes that the index for two years — 2009 and 2011 — shared this common characteristic.