AS VILLAGE pramukh Madhuben Shiayal finished addressing the meeting, a dozen koli men and a handful of women who had taken off time from weeding the bajri fields got up to go.

Making further concessions for creating public infrastructure in Naxalite areas, the government on Thursday ordered that projects like building of roads, schools or hospitals on forest land would not require clearance under the Forest Conservation Act, 1980 as long as the total forest land to be diverted is not more than five hectares.

In such cases, the state governments themselves would be au

Bhubaneswar There

Ranchi, April 26: Swamped by complaints against a not-so-exhaustive BPL list, which has also thrown a spanner in its ambitious ration card programme, the state government has decided to launch without delay a fresh survey of poverty-stricken families in the rural belt for which it has already received a corpus of Rs 3 crore from the Centre.

In a related development, it has also extended the dea

Six per cent increase in earnings of the Corporation
The Rajasthan State Road Transport Corporation has set a target to connect all the village panchayats of the State with its service in next three years. At present its network covers 40 per cent of the village panchayats .

GANGTOK, April 19

A campaign will be launched in 4500 villages under 313 development blocks in the state under the concept

On Monday, Orissa became the first state in the country to launch National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM), a re-designed and re-structured Swarnjayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana (SGSY).