About 13.5 crore children up to the age of five were vaccinated at 650,000 centres all over the country in the fourth and final round of the nationwide Pulse polio immunisation programme recently.

About 1,000 hectares of wasteland will be developed in Erode district, Tamil Nadu, at a cost of Rs 47 lakh.

The Cauvery delta district of Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu has proved to be fertile grounds for teak plantations. Teak comprises 4 per cent of the total forest cover.

More than 3.5 lakh slum-dwellers have been covered in Faridabad district under the World Health Organization-sponsored