Democracy," Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi once said, "is the art and science of mobilising the entire physical, economic and spiritual resources of various sections of the people in the service of the common good of all."
Change is inevitable; it is truly the only constant. Often change is hard to detect, particularly in amorphous domains such as governance and development. Be assured though that India is changing, even if at a glacial pace. The Seventh India Today State of the States Report reveals that the gravity of growth is shifting to emerging geographies, even if gradually.
AIZWAL, Sept 8: By generating employment opportunities through infrastructure development projects, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) has helped people in rural areas of Mizoram.
The erosion by Barak river has expanded by a range of 5 km near Panchgram, which includes the villages like Kalarpar, Das Colony, Katakhal and Tukargram. People from these villages, like Satyendra Singha, Biswas Singha and Birendra Singha, have discovered cracks in their RCC buildings. Altogether, 20 families have been rendered homeless.
In a relief for locals living under the threat of swine flu, all the 40 throat swab samples suspected of swine-flu infection were found to be negative today, health department officials said.
Swine flu scare, triggered by the detection of two cases in the State on Saturday, hit normal lives in the capital city of Aizawl with many people wearing masks on the streets since Monday.
AIZAWL, Aug 18: Annual rice produce in Mizoram is likely to fall by 30-50 per cent due to drought-like situation this year. State Agriculture Minister H Liansailova called a meeting of officials here yesterday to discuss measures for providing succour to farmers and check crop damages due to scanty rainfall.
The scare of swine flu has crept into the Defence establishments after a CRPF jawan and an Army soldier in Mizoram and a jawan in Assam tested positive for it.
Defence sources said all the security forces have been put on alert to prevent its personnel from being affected by the H1N1 virus even as special monitoring was being done for those returning from holidays.
