KUMUD JENAMANI

Jamshedpur, June 24: Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) may have come as a boon for villagers in the state, but industrial unit owners in Adityapur are far from happy.

Jamshedpur, June 10: The East Singhbhum district administration is gearing up to tackle probable flash floods this monsoon.

The three urban civic bodies

- Forest department ties up with NGO to increase water table in two blocks of Ghatshila sub-division

Jamshedpur, June 9: The state forest department will soon launch projects with the aim of eradicating water shortage at Dumaria and Bahragora blocks of East Singhbhum.

- Medicinal herbs to be cultivated on 1800 acres across six districts

To wipe out poverty from villages, the state government has decided to promote cultivation of medicinal plants in a big way.

- GPS to map sources in East Singhbhum under Unicef-funded pilot project

Jamshedpur, April 29: People of East Singhbhum will not only have access to clean drinking water soon, they will also get information about the quality of water via global positioning system (GPS).

A 0.6 MTPA wire rod mill set up by Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL) will be inaugurated by Union steel minister Virbhadra Singh at Patratu on April 24, making it the first steel plant to come up in Jharkhand in the last six years that has seen 50 other steel majors sign MoUs with the state.

The process of land acquisition between Asanboni in Seraikela-Kharsawan and Galudih in East Singhbhum for the proposed four-laning of NH-33 will begin soon.

The central government today said it had granted a licence to ArcelorMittal for prospecting iron ore in the Karampada region of Jharkhand, a move that would boost the steel giant

An expansion drive of the country

The Centre has sought certain clarifications from Jharkhand on its recommendation to grant an iron ore mining licence to ArcelorMittal, a move that will further delay the steel giant's Rs 50,000-crore proposed steel plant in the mineral-rich state.

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