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India’s guidelines on wetlands will allow states to decide what counts as prohibited activities	22.1.2020	Scroll.in
An estimated 4.63% of the country’s geographical area is made up of wetlands.
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RLI schemes in Khangabok soon	22.1.2020	Manipur: E-Pao
RLI schemes in Khangabok soon
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Why Modi government’s LPG scheme has failed to take off in Odisha’s forest-dependent villages	21.1.2020	Scroll.in
Around 75% of the residents of one village have received an LPG connection. But only 5% refill it regularly.
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Kolkata plans its first biomining project at Mollar Bheri landfill on eastern wetland	21.1.2020	Citizen Matters
The Rs 21-crore project will be implemented in 55 acres of land near Mollar Bheri, a shallow fishery located in the East Kolkata Wetlands, that has seen a 12-feet-high mountain of waste build up over the years.
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Biofloc technology: The new and improved technique in aquaculture	21.1.2020	Manipur: E-Pao
Biofloc technology: The new and improved technique in aquaculture
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The exile: What Kashmiri Pandits have not been able to do in the 30 years since January 19, 1990	19.1.2020	Scroll.in
‘Three decades of having gone through the unimaginable’: A personal essay.
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Evergreen Systems wins REFCOLD EMERSON AWARD 2019	14.1.2020	Projects Monitor
13th January, Kochi: Evergreen Systems, an industry leader in innovative HVAC practices, was a joint winner of the REFCOLD EMERSON Awards in the Innovative Refrigeration Products Category. The award was announced at the REFCOLD India International Exhibition and Conference, which was held at the Hitex Exhibition Centre, Hyderabad, from 21-23 November, 2019. Evergreen Systems won […] The post Evergreen Systems wins REFCOLD EMERSON AWARD 2019 appeared first on India's first NewsPortal on Projects.
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FISHFED lays stress on hygienic marketing	13.1.2020	The Assam Tribune
FISHFED lays stress on hygienic marketing
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Chambal Basin	11.1.2020	Central Chronicle
Narmada is the biggest river and of religious value of Madhya Pradesh. The Kshipra is also religious “Kumbha” river is its length is not much. The river like Chambal, Betwa, Tawa, Ken also big and important rivers in the State. For a long time the Chambal was known for its ravines and dacoits but that slur on its name is fast vanishing. Some part of Chambal basin remain cronically dry . The Narmada Control Board meeting the Chairmanship of the Chief Minister Mr.Shivraj Singh Chouhan has decided that now the drought-affected areas of the Chambal Basin of Malwa Region would not remain dry. The best irrigation initiative micro lift irrigation scheme to lift water from Narmada Basin and provide it to the drought affected areas of the Chambal Basin. The Board is taking measures to use cent per cent Narmada water allotted to the Madhya Pradesh on time schedule. The state has to use 18.25 MAF water till the year 2024. All water utility projects in the Narmada will be ready by the year 2022. The Narmada ...
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Crop Conditions	11.1.2020	Central Chronicle
The delay in monsoon by a fortnight has affected agricultural operations in the country. It is the time for summer crop planting which has gone down by 27 per cent in comparison to usual and last year sowing. Monsoon rains have covered the nation. The Mumbai which is generally lashed by downpour in June is experiencing it now in the July month. It is record break rains there. The weather office has warned the people of Mumbai of very heavy rainfall in coming four days. The people of urban areas are flooded with the news of floods all over and water logging in all the cities and towns. But in the agro sector the situation is different. This year the pre-monsoon rains were very scanty and farmers could not prepare their fields for timely sowing. The farmers start planting the summer crops known as Kharif from June 1 expecting monsoon within few days. But this year it was double hit on farmers and agriculture. There were virtually no pre-monsoon rains and monsoon come late by fortnight. The agricultural ...
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Water flowing to Pakistan to be supplied to Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan : Gadkari	11.1.2020	Central Chronicle
Phagwara, Union Roads Transport and Water Resources Minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday announced that the water from eastern rivers flown towards Pakistan would be supplied to the people in Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan. Addressing a rally after laying foundation stone of Elevated Fly Over on National Highways here, Mr Gadkari said the river water was being given to Pakistan only to increase cordiality under a pact signed by late Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru in the year 1960, but Pakistan act in a negative way by encouraging terrorism in the country. The Union Minister said now Pakistan will have to live in thirst of a drop of water. He announced that it will stop its share of water in the Indus basin rivers from flowing to Pakistan as retribution for its complicity in the Pulwama attack that killed over 40 CRPF personnel. Mr Gadkari claimed that Union Government was working in honest and transparent way to provide all basic amenities to the people. He said that central government is spending Rs one ...
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Agro Measures	11.1.2020	Central Chronicle
The monsoon is over. The rains and deficient in the Madhya Pradesh. Despite initially heavy rains the beginning could not fill up many water bodies like Bhoj Sagar and Kerwa Dam of Capital Bhopal. The plight and problem of the agriculture sector is to provide water fields as the crops now need irrigation urgently some irrigation pumps operate on diesel and the diesel is becoming costly on regular basis. The Government must ensure irrigation to farmers at this hour when seeding has started in the crops. The Narmada water supply in the capital is eratic and many localities and not setting water at all.The State Government before the advent of monsoon launched the scheme of talabs in every villages. Still it is not known how may new talab were dug up and having water. Crops require urgent water supply.
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Rains – Relief or Trouble	11.1.2020	Central Chronicle
The call of the Government to the nation is to ‘save every drop of water’ and in the entire rainy season we are wasting entire water and not accumulating over the surface and as underground water. June-July is first month of reason and all the cities, towns and villages are flooded causing the miseries. In a haphazard of way of living and construction of houses we have not made any provision of water outlets. The net result is the flooding of all the cities Bhopal, Gwalior, Indore and even Mumbai located on the sea. In Madhya Pradesh the Government announced that before the onset of monsoon every village will have Talab of its own to store water for drinking, daily use and irrigation. Such large number of talab will also make underground water by percolation. The Bargi Dam of Narmada is full and its 7 gates are opened. But this caused flood of nine districts.But still there is no news from the Government sources how many village Talab have be constructed under the MANREGA progamme and water ...
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Irrigation project poised to transform agrarian economy of Telangana	11.1.2020	Central Chronicle
Hyderabad, Work is being carried out on war footing at the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project (KLIP) that will bring relief to farmers by irrigating their fields as well as provide drinking water in parched areas of Telangana. With the total cost of the project pegged at Rs 80,000 crore, it envisages construction of barrage across river Godavari at Medigadda near Kaleshwaram, and two more barrages between Medigadda and Sripada Yellampally Project at Annaram and Sundilla. When completed, the project will transform the agrarian economy of Northern Telangana. The entire project is scheduled to be completed by June 2022.The project will convey water to the command area spread over in 13 districts of Telangana through a network of canals, tunnels, lift systems and reservoirs for irrigating an area of 18,25,700 acres against the original proposed area of 16,40,000 acres. The entire project works are divided into seven links and 28 packages. As a large area exists in the middle reaches of Godavari covering ...
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Modi Visit	11.1.2020	Central Chronicle
Prime Minister Mr.Narendra Modi on a day’s visit to Madhya Pradesh at Mohanpura in Rajgarh he dedicated Mohanpura irrigation Project. It will irrigate 1.25 hectares of land and provide drinking water to 400 villages. The Rajgarh district so far mostly dependent of rain water for agriculture. The Mohanpura Project has given a big fillip in irrigation. Mr.Modi also praised for the leadership of the Chief Minister Mr.Shivraj Singh Chouhan in making tremendous progress in the development of the state. In the clean India programme in the whole India first and second position obtained by Indore and Bhopal. In all 21 cities of the states besides Bhopal and Indore included in the national lists of clean cities and are Khargone, Ujjain, Singraulli, Mandsaur,Jabalpur, Gwalior, Chhindwara, Sagar, Rewa, Pithampur, Dewas, Neemuch, Ratlam, Hoshangabad, Nagda, Burhanpur and Chhattarpur. In view of coming elections Mr.Modi also took it as opportunity to assail Congress for projecting only one family. Mr.Modi also ...
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Oli's China Visit: MoU signed to develop eight different projects	11.1.2020	Central Chronicle
Beijing, Nepal and China signed eight agreements in the presence of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli in Chinese Capital Beijing on Wednesday, according to the reports. Agreements were signed between the government and private companies of both the countries to develop hydropower projects, cement industries and establishing highland food parks amid a function organised in Embassy of Nepal in Beijing, according to the RSS. Different Nepali investors and Chinese investors signed the separate memorandum of understandings (MoUs) on the occasion. On the occasion, CEO of Investment Board (IB), Nepal Maha Prasad Adhikari and Vice President of Huaxin Cement of China Xu Gang signed the project investment agreement between the Investment Board of Government of Nepal and Huaxin Cement Narayani Private Ltd. The Chinese firm has pledged 144 US Dollars of FDI to generate 3,000 metric tonnes of cement per day. Likewise, MoU and cooperation between the government of Nepal, Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and ...
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L&T Construction bags orders worth Rs 5704 cr	11.1.2020	Central Chronicle
Mumbai, L&T Construction on Monday said that its water and effluent treatment business has secured orders worth Rs 5,704 crore. Company said it has won two major orders from the Narmada Valley Development Authority (NVDA), government of Madhya Pradesh, for execution of the Indira Sagar Project - Parwati phases I and II and Kalisindh phase I Micro Lift Irrigation Schemes. The company has also received an EPC order from the Madhya Pradesh Jal Nigam Maryadit for execution of the Buxwaha Multi Village Rural Water Supply Scheme. The scope of work includes design, supply, and installation of pipeline, design and construction of intake well, water treatment plane, pump house, master balancing reservoirs, break pressure tank, water storage structures with associated electromechnical and instrumental work, house service connection and operation and maintenance for 10 years. The project will cover 299 villages of Sahgarh,banda, Buxwaha, Bijwar and Hatta blocks in districts of Sagar, Chhatarpur, and Damoh of ...
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Mighty Storms	11.1.2020	Central Chronicle
Mighty high speed dust storms hit across the North-India covering 12 states with core hit in the Uttar Pradesh. It were blowing upto the speed 120 to 130 kilometer per hour. The mango crop in Uttar Pradesh suffered very heavy losses in dropping of fruits, which where about to be picked out. According to the weather office the western disturbances are the main cause and it was combined with three rare weather systems. The western disturbances was created over Rajasthan, Punjab and Haryana generating thunder clouds and reached upto Uttar Pradesh and in the Bihar. Here it was combined with moisture coming over from the Bay of Bengal and created high temperature. It created strong force and hitting power in the high speed winds. The western disturbances always occurred at the height of 1500 meter above the ground and when combines with moisture from upcoming water in steam form from the ground water resources the clouds are formed and summer rains occur. The North India is reeling under the heat above 40 ...
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Mah farmers' stir: Six-member body formed to look into demands	11.1.2020	Central Chronicle
Mumbai, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Monday that a six-member committee has been formed to look into the farmers' issue. The six members are -- Revenue Minister Chandrakant Patil, Irrigation Minister Girish Mahajan, PWD Minister Eknath Shinde, Agriculture Minister Pandhurang Phundkar, Cabinet Minister for Tribal Development Vishnu Sawara and Cabinet Minister of Sahakar and Panan Subhash Deshmukh. Meanwhile, after covering 180-km for six days, nearly 40,000 farmers carrying red flags converged at Azad Maidan here on Monday to press for their demands. The march, called by Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sabha (ABKS) affiliated with the CPI(M), had started on March 6 from the CBS Chowk in Nashik. They are demanding waivers on agricultural loans after unseasonal rain destroyed crops, and also more support from the government and fair prices for their produce.The transfer of land to tribal farmers is also on their list. Sighting difficulty for the office-goers and the students appearing for ...
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GST Rates Cut	11.1.2020	Central Chronicle
Just on the eve of Central Budget presentation on February 1 the 25th meeting of the GST Central Council slashed the rates of 29 items in 53 services. But it has not taken any decision on taking petrol, diesel, LPG petroleum product under the GST cover. It merely said that in the next 26th meeting of the GST Council after 10 days on 28th January the Council will discuss and may take decision on petrol, diesel. Four days before the Central Budget the Council may give surprise on it. Most of the states are against taking petroleum products under GST cover. Most of the state income come from tax on petroleum products and excise duty on liquor. But unless these products are not under the GST the basic object of the GST to have one tax slab system for the whole nation and create one national market cannot be achieved. The new rates will come into effect from January 25. The GST reduced on old buses and cars, mineral water in big jars, drip irrigation equipments. The tax on diamond and precious stones ...
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