LUCKNOW: Construction activity in and around Gomtinagar and Alambagh has taken a toll on the ambient air quality. Pollution levels recorded here have shown an increase from last year. It is mainly due to the increase in the volume of ultrafine particles (RSPM) that remain suspended in air for long.
LUCKNOW: Hundreds of labourers started indefinite stir from Monday in various parts of the state to draw attention of the authorities towards
their grievances related to National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS).
After assuming his office in New Delhi, Union Minister of State for Rural Development is preparing to take on the BSP Government over the alleged neglect of the rural job scheme in Uttar Pradesh.
LUCKNOW: Mayors from the 12 cities of the state have expressed their anguish over the state government decision to handover the project of installing a solid waste treatment plant to UP Jal Nigam.
LUCKNOW: The work on the new parking at Charbagh station has started. By the end of the year the station might get a better and organised parking. Railway administration has planned a five-lane drive-in road at the station to enable smooth traffic flow and to check the station from getting crowded.
RAMGOPAL, a resident of Hardoi, had been running from pillar to post with his complaint of being paid less than his due under the UPA's flagship National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.
LUCKNOW: The state government has directed the Lucknow Development Authority (LDA), UP Housing Board, Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) and the estate department to take up an intensive afforestation drive in the city before the onset of the monsoon.
Having burnt its fingers by offering health facilities to citizens through a Smart Card, the Health department is now contemplating to relaunch it from July 2009. The scheme had earlier failed to take off in 15 districts where it was implemented on a pilot basis in September 2008 for providing health care to marginalised sections of the society.
Lucknow Development Authority, Lucknow Municipal Corporation and Housing Board have decided to give a facelift to more than 300 parks lying in a shambles across the city.
An amount of Rs 20.43 crore has been earmarked for the purpose and plantation will be undertaken on a large scale during the rainy season.
The thunder storm which struck on late Sunday night claimed about a dozen lives in three separate incidents reported from Badaun, Mahamayanagar and Gautam Buddh Nagar.
