The responsibility of the maintenance of roads constructed under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), once their five-year contractual period is over, is an issue which has "concerned" a parliamentary committee. The parliamentary standing committee on rural development which has submitted its report on demand for grants(2008-09) during the on going Budget Session in Lok Sabha, has noted that all roads constructed under PMGSY are covered by five-year maintenance contracts.

Alarmed by unabated influx from Bangladesh, the high-powered Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) has cleared a project to floodlight Indo-Bangladesh border within next five years. The project for floodlighting 2,840 km of the Indo-Bangladesh border is estimated to cost Rs 132.78 crore. The project is likely to be completed by 2011-2012, said Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Radhika V Selvi in reply to a Rajya Sabha reply.

The Government of Jharkhand has taken several leading initiatives in order to attract industrial investment in the State. These policies have graphed a framework for accelerating development and envisage a set of incentives and schemes, with the Government creating the right kind of business climate by removing the roadblocks and thereby enhancing the inflow of capital.

Mizoram is an oasis of peace in the Northeast, surrounded by trouble-torn Assam and Manipur, and the smaller Tripura, where, too, a lingering insurgency ensures that things are only comparatively better. And the Mizos are capitalising fully on the peace dividend, even sending out the message that "peace pays' to the other states in the region.

Bharat Nirman, the Centre's massive four-year

Over three months after the Station Area Traffic Improvement Scheme (SATIS) along with construction of three road overbridges was delinked from the scope of the World Bank-aided Mumbai Urban Transport

On the recommendation of the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, union minister of road transport and highways T.R.