"Madhya Pradesh is fast moving away from its 'rich state inhabited by poor people' image, and bring about changes in the industry, infrastructure and social welfare to help improve the living standards of the people and pull itself out of the red".

Rs 174,000 crore sanctioned for new scheme to build rural infrastructure

• Engineers moved more than 10,000,000 cubic meters (cum) of earth in building the road; enough to build a wall three feet wide and 10 feet high, from New York to San Francisco

• They also dug 1,000,000 cum of gravel from river beds to surface the road; if loaded on rail cars the gravel train would be more than 600 kilometres long

Udaipur s waterbodies run dry, authorities run amok

The chaos on the roads is choking the growth of India's IT capital, Bangalore