At the sleepy office of the Bundelkhand Vikas Nigam in Jhansi, senior assistant O P Gupta, lone member of the staff apart from a chaprasi and the newly appointed chairman, is clearly unaccustomed to visitors. He recalls the time when the Nigam

Sikkim Government has set up monitoring committees from the State to subdivision levels to protect the rights of the forest dwellers on the jungle resources.

Amita Verma
Sept. 6: Film actor turned politician Raja Bundela will take out a "padyatra" from Chitrakoot in Uttar Pradesh to Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh in November to press for the demand for creation of a separate Bundelkhand state.

MALLARPUR, 4 SEPT: The State Bank of India (SBI) has adopted a tribal village in Birbhum district to improve the livelihood of the residents. This kind of a socio-economic effort would be the first-of-its-kind in Birbhum. The tribal village, Melteldanga under Mayureswar I block area, was selected by the state authorities of SBI.

Sanjib Kumar Roy

ISLAND PURA: ABDUL KALAM' S VISION FOR ANDAMANSEXTENDING his dream plan of PURA (providing urban amenities in rural areas) to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam said that he visualised Island PURA for the welfare and better employment opportunities of islanders.

A total of 829 works have been accorded administrative sanction

MADURAI: Rural development works worth Rs. 6.83 crore such as laying roads to connect remote villages and constructing public distribution system shops will be taken up this fiscal in the district.

The NREGS week has worked wonders for Giridih.

For the first time, all villages of the district got covered under the rural job scheme. This probably makes Giridih the first district in the state that can boast NREGS projects in all its revenue villages.

The NREGS week was observed from August 25 to 31.

AMIT AGNIHOTRI
Following Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's directive towards convergence of NREGS with other agricultural and rural development schemes to minimise the impact of drought, the rural development ministry is planning innovation in the Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojna (SGSY).