-IANS The interim report of the two-member commission probing the Adarsh Society scam, related to the housing society originally meant for war heroes and Kargil widows, is likely to be submitted to the Maharashtra government Friday, officials said. However, it was not clear when or whether it would be tabled before the state legislature, the sources added. The report by the two-member commission of inquiry, comprising retired Justice J.A. Patil and former state...
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People can deposit fallow and uncultivated land in government land banks to garner money-Devika Banerji
People with agricultural land that they do not wish to cultivate will soon have the option of depositing it in government land banks that will offer them consistent monetary returns. With an incentive system broadly on the lines of a bank account, the public land bank will offer payments based on the tenure and size of the holding with additional benefits if the land is leased out. "A lot of land is...
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-The Telegraph Trinamul leaders in Singur today urged party MPs and MLAs to donate a month’s salary to help raise a fund for farmers who lost their land to the Tata Nano factory. Chief minister Mamata Banerjee has time and again said that the 400 acres for which the farmers have refused to accept compensation would be returned to them but the government is engaged in legal tangle with Tata Motors since...
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IT giants were allotted lands in Manikonda and surrounding areas since 2003 Though the High Court judgement directed the State Government to refer its dispute with the Wakf Board over the ownership of over 1,600 acres of land in Manikonda and surroundings to Wakf Tribunal for resolution, the government is confident that the outcome will not directly affect the legal allottees. Several IT giants like Infosys, Wipro, Polaris and others like...
More »India's forests are in serious decline, both in numbers and health-M Rajshekhar
The government says area under forests has been increasing for the last 13 years. ET finds this is the outcome of statistical jugglery and the use of flawed definitions by India's forest bureaucracy. The bald truth is India's forests are in serious decline, both in numbers and in health. In February, the latest instalment of a little environmental kabuki played out when the Forest Survey of India released its biennial report...
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