As a step towards forest conservation, poor tribal folk living in villages bordering this district's Madhav National Park will be provided cooking gas connections at 100 per cent subsidy.

The Great Indian Bustard was last spotted in Karera sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh in 1993. But 16 years hence, while the bird may be long dead here, it continues to control the destinies of more than 25,000 residents of 32 villages inside it.

In Krishnaganj gram panchayat in Pohari block of Madhya Pradesh's Shivpuri district the Total Sanitation Campaign has inspired the village community to think beyond construction of toilets, and create a viable revenue model for community toilets.

Agriculture is the mainstay of the Madhya Pradesh economy. As much as 49 per cent of its landmass is cultivable and 74.73 per cent of its people depend directly or indirectly on agriculture for their livelihood. The sector

"Only 25 per cent of the NREGS funds have actually reached beneficiaries'

"Rs.2,100 crore apparently siphoned off by the executing authorities'

"Loot, plunder and pillage of the NREGS funds has been truly participatory'

Lalit Shastri SHIVPURI (M.P.): A health revolution is in the offing in Guna and Shivpuri where the District Health Societies are trying to put the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) vision into practice. They are working together with the State Government and the UNICEF to create a model for "continuum care from community to hospitals'

State government has constituted two new districts Alirajpur and Singrauli and 13 new Tahasils. New Tahasils have come into existence right from today while Alirajpur and Singrauli districts would come into being on May 17 and 24 respectively. Entire Alirajpur, Jobat and Jhabra Tahasils have been included in the newly-constituted Alirajpur district with its headquarter at Alirajpur. In the new Singrauli district, entire Devsar, Chitrangi and Singrauli Tahasils have been incorporated.

The much-hyped Mukhayamantri Annapurna Yojna will be launched in 20 districts of the State today. The scheme will be launched in consumer awareness camps, where food grains will be distributed to the Below Poverty Line (BPL) ration card holder families. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan on Saturday had launched the Mukhayamantri Annapurna Yojna at Bhopal and Indore.

1,06,421 women have been extended benefit of Janani Suraksha Yojana launched in the state for promoting institutional delivery.

Hunger is unpalatable. For a government that wishes to assert that it is not callous, it is particularly so. But hunger, with a capital H, is a pill that millions of people in Madhya Pradesh continue to swallow.