-The Hindustan Times As the general election nears, the government has allowed Members of Parliament (MPs) more flexibility in utilising their local area development fund. They can now install solar lights at public places, build public infrastructure in cooperative societies and buy furniture for schools. Every parliamentarian gets Rs. 5 crore every year as Member of Parliament Local Area Development (MPLAD) Fund to carry out developmental works in his or her constituency....
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Kerosene lamp which cooks food without polluting
-PTI KOLKATA: A lamp which produces high quality light and doubles up as a device to cook food without causing pollution has been invented by a team of engineers in Maharashtra. Suitable particularly for rural households which lack clean cooking fuel and electricity, the device, aptly named Lanstove (lantern combined with cook stove), has been developed by researchers from Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) in Maharashtra's Phaltan. IIT graduate Anil Rajvanshi, who led...
More »Clean energy can light up lives-Sandip Verma
-The Hindu Biomass cookstoves and solar Lighting improve the health of women and are creating business models that empower them Around the world three billion people have no access to modern cooking fuels. They depend mostly on direct burning of solid biomass for cooking and heating. The smoke from these rudimentary stoves causes some four million deaths annually, destroys millions of tonnes of crops and leads to global warming and large-scale regional...
More »Atal Jyoti Abhiyan: Govt funds misused
-The Hindustan Times Bhopal: The officials spent Rs. 18 lakh in the name of transportation during inauguration programme of Atal Jyoti Yojana in the district. According to sources, the bureaucrats of chief minister's home district spent worth Rs. 18 lakh on transportation during launching of Atal Jyoti Abhiyan. They also spent Rs. 1.43 lakh in the name of sound system for two hours programme, Rs. 72,000 for Lighting arrangements and Rs. 30,000 on...
More »Floors Wet With Sweat -Pragya Singh
-Outlook Labour is bought cheap, treated cheap-in India's garment factories as at Bangladeshi ones Even as the world remains morbidly fixated on the tragedy in Rana Plaza on the outskirts of Dhaka-the collapse of the textiles sweatshop three weeks ago buried 1,127 workers and sparked off a global outrage-it is business as usual at India's textile hubs. And you don't have to travel far from the city centre to...
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