The Meghalaya government will initiate an integrated basin development and livelihood programme to uplift the lives of people who depend on rivers.
Chief minister Mukul Sangma told the reporters this evening that he had sought Rs 3,000 crore during his recent meeting with Prime Minister to start the project.
The project aims at improving the river basins in the state.
Shillong: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report has revealed that there has been a shortfall in the achievement of targets under most of the flagship programmes in Meghalaya while one project was still incomplete even after 24 years.
According to the report, the shortfall ranged between 41 per cent and 100 per cent in 2009-10.
Cancer patients in need of radiation are being turned away from the Shillong Civil Hospital, the only place in the entire Meghalaya that offers radio-therapy, after a national regulatory board found both physicists working at the hospital wanting in necessary certification.
Any medical physicist wishing to work as a radiologist at a hospital in India must earn a diploma from the Bhaba Atomic Re
SHILLONG, Feb 2: Scientists have stressed the need for conservation of wetlands for a balanced ecosystem in the biodiversity-rich Northeast. The atlas of Northeast India released by the North Eastern Space Application Centre (NESAC) at Barapani near Shillong today revealed that the biodiversity of the region accounts for almost 5 per cent of the wetlands in the country.
The Union Ministry of Railways has made an elaborate plan to develop the railway infrastructure in the north-eastern region. All the State capitals are to be linked with rail network in the next five to seven years, Press Information Bureau (PIB) sources said today. In addition to that, work for gauge conversion of the existing lines is also being taken up.
The Centre has written to the Meghalaya government, along with other states, asking it to ensure smooth supply of food items in the state to contain the steep rise in prices.
The exercise is part of a nationwide initiative to bring down food prices all over the country.
Official sources said today that the Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee had asked all the state governments, including
SOHRA: The Cherrap-unjee Greater Water Supply scheme, commissioned last month at an estimated cost of Rs 4.13 crore was inaugurated on Monday to help alleviate the drinking water shortage faced by the locals of the "wet desert".
Inaugurating the project formally on Monday, PHE Minister Preston Tynsong said the scheme would benefit 25,451 people of Sohra area.
