Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday said her government would upgrade 12,500 acre of barren land into cultivable farm land with adequate water facilities while announcing several schemes for ushering in a second green revolution in the state. "With food production to be affected owing to the reducing cultivable land, my government this year will upgrade 12,500 acres of barren land and to set up proper water facilities a subsidy of Rs.4,000/acre will be given," she told the assembly.
According to her, the farm inputs will also be provided at subsidised rates and a sum of Rs 7.20 crore will be given for this purpose. In order to use the available water in an efficient manner, Jayalalithaa said the state would procure and rent out rain guns and mobile sprinklers to farmers. The project involves an outlay of Rs 57 crore, she said.
In order to make Tamil Nadu self-sufficient in food grain production, three kinds of fast track plans will be drawn and a plan allocation of Rs 114.20 crore has been allocated for this purpose, she added. According to her, a scheme worth Rs 275 crore will be implemented through sugar mills to boost sugarcane production in 50,000 acres while adding the setting up of special purpose vehicle to provide raw materials to the farmers.
In order to mechanise the farm operations as farm labourers are migrating, Jayalalithaa said the government would provide farm equipment at subsidised rates at an outlay of
04:46 AM, May 07, 2013
Rajahmundry: Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Sunday night said Rs 1,000 crore and Rs 400 crore will be spent this year for infrastructure and water works in localities were SCs and STs stay. He also announced that in order to provide better education facilities for students completing tenth standard, 100 hostels for SCs, each costing Rs 2 crore and 250 hostels for STs, each costing Rs 1...
02:55 AM, Apr 22, 2013
Kerala, which stands out from the rest of India with 94 per cent literacy rate, has achieved another distinction of having the lowest dropout rate of school students in the country at just 0.53 per cent. ...
04:30 AM, Mar 18, 2013
Even as government hailed Pawan Kumar Bansal's maiden railway budget for 2013-14, people demanded better amenities in the trains. They said they are even ready to pay more for more facilities. ...
06:35 PM, Feb 26, 2013
Despite the Delhi High Court's order directing the government to build one shelter per one lakh population, the capital still has only 150 temporary and permanent shelters that can house a mere 7500 homeless people of the city. With over three lakh homeless people in Delhi, the existing shelters are not only inadequate, they are also in poor conditions. ...
09:28 AM, Jan 05, 2013
India and Pakistan on Tuesday exchanged a list of their nuclear facilities and their nationals lodged in each others' jails. ...
01:11 AM, Jan 02, 2013
Major telecom companies in country have agreed to providing real time intercept facilities for Blackberry smartphones meeting a December 31 deadline set by the Government. The Department of Telecom (DoT) had set a deadline of December 31 for lawful real time legal interception of Blackberry services after the Canadian-based manufacturer of the smartphone Research In Motion (RIM) had provided a solution for the same. ...
06:57 PM, Dec 30, 2012
The dengue menace continues in Bihar. Over 300 patients have been admitted to government hospitals so far and 18 people have lost their lives. Many more patients have been admitted to private hospitals and as per rough estimates, the figure could well be over 1,000. Only three blood banks in Patna have the facility to segregate blood platelets crucial for transfusions. The administration claims it's on war footing, but these ...
11:35 AM, Oct 31, 2012
Aligarh: Kapil Sibal, minister for HRD, communications and IT on Saturday said that the Muslim community in India was at the "bottom of the pile" as far as healthcare was concerned. "It is unfortunate, but health parameters indicate that the Muslim community in India are at the bottom of the pile. We face great challenges in the field of health. Our health services in rural areas are inadequate, availability of...
12:39 AM, Oct 01, 2012
New Delhi: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on Atomic Energy Regulatory Board on Thursday said that India has had no radiation safety police in the last three decades. The damning report comes close on the heels of its reports on coal allocations, power projects and Delhi airport. Observing that Pakistan and a number of other countries had conferred legal status to their nuclear regulators, the CAG on Wednesday...
02:12 PM, Aug 23, 2012
New Delhi: To make health care more affordable, the government proposes to launch an initiative for free supply of essential medicines in public health facilities. "The government proposes to start an initiative for free supply of essential medicines in public health facilities in the country aiming to provide affordable health care to the people by reducing out of pocket expenses on medicines," Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad...
05:05 PM, Aug 21, 2012
BANGALORE: Considered to be one of Asias biggest flower market, the K R Market in all its traditional glory attracts the sale and purchase of more than 20 tonnes of flowers daily. The flowers arrive into the city not only from different districts of the State but also from the neighbouring states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala. Even as the dawn sets in, there are men and women...
08:41 AM, Mar 20, 2012
Silchar: The malnourished and starving workers of the tea garden of Silchar don't get the essential medical help as the area has a non-functional national rural health mission with no qualified doctors, electricity and water supply. Even with wages that are lower than the minimum wage, workers went back to the tea garden when it reopened on February 8. But in the four months when there was no work, 10...
11:26 PM, Feb 15, 2012
Tehran: A senior Iranian military official said on Monday that Tehran's nuclear and other industrial facilities suffer periodic cyber attacks, but that the country has the technology to protect itself from the threat, an official news agency reported. Iran considers itself to have been waging a complicated cyber war since 2010, when a virus known as Stuxnet disrupted controls of some nuclear centrifuges. "Most enemy threats target nuclear energy sites...
02:18 PM, Feb 14, 2012
Join CNN-IBN's Suhasini Haidar as she discusses the question that every Middle East watcher is now asking. ...
11:21 PM, Nov 19, 2011
Are the US and its allied forces going to strike Iran's nuclear facilities next? What should India's stand be? Join CNN-IBN's Suhasini Haidar as she discusses the question that every Middle East watcher is now asking. ...
07:15 PM, Nov 16, 2011
BANGALORE: Commuters of Namma Metro are disappointed over the lack of toilets and drinking water facilities in Metro stations along the Reach 1 route. While the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) plans to build 'pay and use' toilets outside the Metro stations, drinking water facilities and other options like eateries have not been included in the design of the stations yet. BMRCL has seen a surge in the commuters...
01:29 PM, Oct 28, 2011
Yashmin demands up gradation of facilities at Safdarjung hospital, the only govt burns care specialty hospital. ...
12:27 PM, Oct 22, 2011
Mumbai: Tata Motors chairman Ratan Tata on Friday said that the country's largest automaker is looking at assembling facilities in Indonesia and in Eastern Europe for rolling out its small car Nano. "We are already selling the Nano in Sri Lanka and Nepal. We are also looking at assembling facilities for this, possibly in Indonesia and in some parts of Eastern Europe," Tata told the company AGM here. However, he...
07:44 PM, Aug 12, 2011
Over 300 medical students and some junior doctors were on hunger strike since Tuesday. ...
07:14 PM, Jun 02, 2010
