Jaipur, May 30 (IANS) Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma said on Saturday that civic body employees play a pivotal role in realising the vision of ‘Viksit Rajasthan 2047’ and stressed that honesty, transparency and timely public service are the true foundations of good governance. Addressing the ninth Grand Convention of the Rajasthan Municipal Employees Federation at the Rajasthan International Centre (RIC) in Jaipur, the Chief Minister urged the civic body employees to maintain integri…
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Aizawl, May 30 (IANS) Union Minister for Power, Housing and Urban Affairs Manohar Lal Khattar stressed the need for ensuring full recovery of electricity dues and strengthening strategic planning for both power conservation and power generation to meet the country’s growing energy demands efficiently. A Mizoram Power Department official said on Saturday that a state-level review meeting on Power and Housing & Urban Affairs was held under the chairmanship of Union Minister for Power, Housing …
New Delhi, May 28 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday that projects worth over Rs 30,000 crore were reviewed at the PRAGATI session held on Wednesday. “The works covered sectors like railways, power and road connectivity. Aspects relating to ports, Swachh Bharat Mission 2.0 and other social sector schemes were also discussed,” PM Modi said in a post on X.The Prime Minister chaired the 51st meeting of PRAGATI, the ICT-enabled, multi-modal platform aimed at fostering Pro-Active Go…
New Delhi, May 28 (IANS) Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister, Manohar Lal, on Thursday visited the Bhalswa landfill site in North Delhi to review the ongoing legacy waste remediation work and directed civic officials to complete the task by September this year.During the visit, Manohar Lal reviewed the biomining operations, environmental safeguards, fire prevention measures, leachate management systems, and the future road map for complete remediation of the dumpsite, said an official state…
New Delhi/Agartala, May 26 (IANS) Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Tuesday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi and held extensive discussions on a wide range of developmental issues, including the establishment of an All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in the state, officials said. A senior official of the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) said that Chief Minister Saha also discussed with the Prime Minister the extension of the National Highway from Kamalpur to Shantir Baza…
Ranchi, May 26 (IANS) As the Modi government completes 12 years in power, beneficiaries of various public welfare schemes, including housing, sanitation, and others, are sharing their tales of transformation over the years. In Jharkhand’s Mohla-Manpur village, the locals in the forest-rich district are a happy lot because of the transformation they have undergone over the past 12 years.From leaking roofs to the hardships of living in dilapidated mud houses and a severe lack of basic amenities,…
Guwahati, May 19 (IANS) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Tuesday that effective urban garbage management remains one of the lesser discussed achievements of his government, asserting that the state has already remediated 65 per cent of legacy waste in urban areas under the Swachh Bharat Mission. In a post on social media platform X, the Chief Minister noted that the initiative was inspired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of a cleaner India under the Swachh Bharat campaig…
Ahmedabad, April 30 (IANS) Ahead of the International Labour Day on May 1, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) on Thursday highlighted the scale and structure of its sanitation system, saying that more than 18,000 sanitation workers collectively manage over 5,000 metric tonnes of waste generated in the city each day. The civic body said the workforce includes more than 13,000 permanent sanitation workers and around 5,000 workers engaged through Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs).In addit…
Jaipur, April 30 (IANS) Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma has said that Rajasthan is witnessing rapid progress in girls’ education, driven by the state government’s policies focused on expanding infrastructure and ensuring access up to higher education across regions.He was addressing the inauguration of a newly constructed girls’ college established by the Rajeshwar Bhagwan Anjani Mata Kanya Gurukul Sansthan, along with the 10th foundation day programme of the Gurukul in Rohat in Pali dist…
Patna, April 27 (IANS) Bihar CM Samrat Chaudhary on Monday evening chaired a high-level review meeting at ‘Samvad’ in the Chief Minister’s Secretariat, assessing the progress of major schemes under the Departments of Urban Development and Housing, Panchayati Raj, and Tourism. He directed officials to ensure accelerated execution, transparency, and quality in all ongoing projects.During the meeting, Vinay Kumar, principal secretary of urban development and housing, presented a compreh…