To take on the discontentment against land acquisition process, Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has cleared a draft bill for public comments. The minister's land acquisition and rehabilitation bill will be up on the ministry website just a fortnight into his term at Krish Bhawan. The Bill proposes a compensation of more than six times the circle rate of land, acquired for industrial and real estate projects. This is in...
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Centre to consult Chief Ministers, parties on land acquisition and rehabilitation Bill by K Balchand
The UPA government has decided to consult all the Chief Ministers, political parties and other stakeholders after posting on the web the draft land acquisition and rehabilitation and resettlement Bill by Saturday. Union Minister for Rural development Jairam Ramesh told journalists he would be sending a copy of the draft legislation to all the Chief Ministers and seek their comments. He will also be conferring with some of them personally. Mr. Ramesh...
More »Faced with administrative apathy, village solves its own water problem by Mohammed Iqbal
Community initiative tackles perennial problem of groundwater salinity In a rare community-driven initiative, the residents of a nondescript village near Deeg in Bharatpur district of Rajasthan have solved the perennial problem of groundwater salinity by laying a one-km cement pipeline to get the Yamuna river waters from a feeder canal situated nearby. The small Madhera village had been facing difficulty in getting clean and pure water for both drinking and irrigation for...
More »Tardy progress by TK Rajalakshmi
The rates of maternal and infant mortality have improved only marginally, according to the latest Sample Registration System. THE country's largest demographic sample survey, covering 1.4 million households and a population of 7.01 million, during the period 2007-09, says that there was only a mild improvement in the infant mortality rate (IMR) and the maternal mortality ratio (MMR). The findings of the latest Sample Registration System (SRS), an exercise which...
More »Government may rework development programmes in Naxal-affected areas by Urmi A Goswami
In an effort to counterLeft wing extremism, the Central government is looking at ways to rework its development programmes and its delivery mechanism in the affected districts. The decision to go back to the drawing board on the delivery of keyRural development programmes -- like the rural employment guarantee scheme and roads programme etc --- comes after Rural development MinisterJairam Ramesh traveled to five Left-wing extremism (LWE) affected districts -...
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