Gandhinagar/Ahmedabad, March 28 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone for 44 urban development projects worth Rs 5,295.54 crore across Gujarat on March 31, with the largest share of works concentrated in Ahmedabad.According to the official details, the projects include 26 works worth Rs 3,427.14 crore for which foundation stones will be laid and 18 completed works worth Rs 1,868.40 crore that will be inaugurated.The initiatives are aimed at expanding ur…
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Mumbai, March 27 (IANS) The Maharashtra government on Friday released a government resolution (GR) to regularise residential encroachments that existed as of January 1, 2011, and are currently used solely for residential purposes. The government hopes to resolve the housing issues of lakhs of poor and needy families in the state. According to the GR, this decision applies to the entire state, except for the Mumbai and Mumbai Suburban districts. Residential encroachments up to 500 squar…
Gandhinagar, March 26 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi has become the longest-serving head of an elected government in the country, completing 8,931 days in office across his tenures as Gujarat Chief Minister and Prime Minister, state BJP president Jagdish Vishwakarma said on Thursday.Addressing a press conference at the party’s state headquarters in Gandhinagar, Vishwakarma said the milestone surpasses the 8,930-day record of former Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling.He added that …
Gandhinagar, March 25 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Gujarat on March 31 to inaugurate and lay foundation stones for a range of urban development projects, as the state highlights two decades of rapid urbanisation and infrastructure expansion.The visit comes as Gujarat marks 20 years since 2005, when Narendra Modi, then Chief Minister, had declared the year as “Urban Year” with a focus on strengthening urban infrastructure.The state government said the urban development journ…
Mumbai, March 24 (IANS) The Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Committee on government assurances, in its first report presented to the house on Tuesday, made scathing observations regarding bureaucratic apathy. It suggested that departmental secretaries and officers should not skip deliberations but remain present.Committee Chairman Ravi Rana expressed displeasure over the bureaucracy’s lack of seriousness in attending committee meetings to discuss assurances given in the house and take …
New Delhi, March 22 (IANS) Top brass of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi on becoming the longest-serving head of government in India, hailing his “unwavering commitment” and taking the nation forward towards the resolution of Viksit Bharat.PM Modi has surpassed Pawan Kumar Chamling, who held office as Chief Minister of Sikkim for 8,930 days. He has completed 8,931 days as head of government, combining his tenure as Chief Minister of Gujarat an…
Dang (Gujarat), March 20 (IANS) A farmer in Gujarat’s Dang district has received a permanent house with financial assistance from government schemes, reflecting the continued rollout of rural housing support in the region. Sonubhai Dokia, a resident of Jharan village who earns his livelihood through farming, received Rs 1,20,000 under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) after applying through the local panchayat and submitting the required documents.He also received Rs 21,610 under the Mahat…
Raipur, March 18 (IANS) Irshad Ahmed, a resident of Gaurela village in Chhattisgarh, is ecstatic and thrilled to have a pucca house of her own – a desire she and her family had harboured for decades, but one that had never been realised. That has changed forever. The days of misery and wretchedness are gone, or at least on the verge of going away. A new house allotted to her under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) signifies a drastic change in her life and also unlocks various opportuni…
Chandigarh, March 13 (IANS) Ahead of Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s political rally in Punjab’s Moga on Saturday, Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Cheema on Friday raised a series of pointed questions to the BJP-led Central government and urged BJP leaders to seek clear answers from the rally. Cheema said the BJP government at the Centre has consistently discriminated against Punjab and treated it with step-motherly behaviour for several years. He said that despite four years of the AAP gover…
New Delhi, March 12 (IANS) Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan approved several key proposals of the Madhya Pradesh government during a meeting with Chief Minister Mohan Yadav here on Thursday.The meeting was held at Krishi Bhavan and was attended by Madhya Pradesh Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Prahlad Singh Patel, along with senior officials from the Union Ministry of Agriculture and the state government.During the meeting, discussions were held on se…