Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan wants it to be the new Singapore. State officials call it Urjanchal, land of energy. For sociologist Sakarama Somayaji, the enduring image from India’s emerging energy wonderland in Singrauli is the women who sell baskets of stones on the roadside. Individually or in groups, the women break stones, and sell them to passing trucks for R80-R90 a basket, a day’s labour. The women are...
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Stage set for violent clashes between police and Posco baiters
The Posco opponents have thrown a direct challenge to the police and civil authorities by breaking the road leading to Jtadhari, where the South Korean steel major has proposed to put up a captive port. The authorities are gearing up for starting work at the steel plant project site near Paradip after the union ministry of environment and forest cleared Posco-India's proposal to set up a 12 million ton steel plant,...
More »NREGA completes 5 years: Nanded farmers reap benefits
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme completes five years this year. A week before the budget, CNBC TV18's Gopika Gopakumar travels to the interiors of Maharashtra to find out how the NREGA scheme is getting implemented. Pandurni village, in Nanded District of Maharashtra, is in high spirits. It has won the award for best performance in implementing the rural employment guarantee scheme for 2009-10. Around 1,500 people from this village are registered...
More »Autonomy to tribals in Northeast helped remove feeling of alienation: GK Pillai
Granting autonomy to tribals in the Northeast has removed their feeling of alienation to a great extent but still a lot needs to be done, Union home secretary Gopal K Pillai said today. Releasing a book - 'Tripura's Bravehearts', Pillai said setting up of autonomous district councils for tribal communities in the Northeast, particularly in Tripura, under the 6th Schedule of the Constitution helped solve many problems. "The feeling that their lands...
More »Ramesh softens stand, 'no-go' projects to get green nod
Has Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, who till recently was known for his green ‘overdrive’, toned down? Conditional clearance to several high-profile projects, including Posco and SAIL, is a pointer to how his ministry has softened its stand. Ahead of a meeting of the group of ministers (GoM) tomorrow, on the ‘no-go’ issue related to coal projects, 16 coal projects, that have been stuck for a year now, are set to get...
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