Kakinada, July 26th: The development of land assigned to the SC, ST beneficiaries in East Godavari has been taken up in a big way. About 2.75 lakh acre land was distributed to beneficiaries in the last four years. The administration notice that majority of these lands were not brought into cultivation due to different reasons including lack of financial support. As part of the development drive and to bring in these lands under cultivation, the services of both Girijan Development Corporation and NREGS East Godavari unit are being utilized.
The development in Phase II program has been initiated in 24 mandals in both upland and Agency areas in the district. Of this total, 17 mandals falls under upland areas and seven in Agency areas. The NREGS, ITDA, forest department, AP micro irrigation, horticulture, social forestry wing in forest department, ground water management, AP Transco and agriculture departments will help development of these lands.
After the assessment of availability of ground water resources, the AP Transco will provide power connection to bore wells. While taking up cultivation the mandal authorities help the beneficiaries in deciding financially viable crops. The East Godavari collector, Mr Gopalkrishna Dwivedi said that there is no storage of funds. He also said that efforts are being made to bring 50 percent of these lands into utilization by the end of October.
The development in Phase II program has been initiated in 24 mandals in both upland and Agency areas in the district. Of this total, 17 mandals falls under upland areas and seven in Agency areas. The NREGS, ITDA, forest department, AP micro irrigation, horticulture, social forestry wing in forest department, ground water management, AP Transco and agriculture departments will help development of these lands.
After the assessment of availability of ground water resources, the AP Transco will provide power connection to bore wells. While taking up cultivation the mandal authorities help the beneficiaries in deciding financially viable crops. The East Godavari collector, Mr Gopalkrishna Dwivedi said that there is no storage of funds. He also said that efforts are being made to bring 50 percent of these lands into utilization by the end of October.
Engineering counseling begins from July 29 Posted on 28-Jul-2009
Hyderabad, July 27th: The counseling for the admission into various engineering colleges is likely to begin on Wednesday. In all 1, 93,275 seats in 577 engineering colleges will be available for the Eamcet qualified students this year under SW-I counseling. Out of the 577 colleges 21 are government...
Arogyasri for retired workers Posted on 28-Jul-2009
Hyderabad, July 27th: The state government on Monday assured that it would consider positively a proposal to issue Arogysri cards to all the four lakh retired employees. The proposal, if implemented will benefit retired persons who are not able to get reimbursement from the medical and health depar...
Decline in supply of red gram to EG Posted on 28-Jul-2009
Kakinada, July 27th: The supply of both red gram and sugar through the public distribution system (PDS) was cut down to half the quantity from July 2009. It is said that the increased costs of these items and low supplies from government forced the district civil supplies department to reduce the q...
Akshara Bharati from August Posted on 28-Jul-2009
Rajahmundry, July 27th: The adult literacy program called ‘Akshara Bharati Phase V is likely to begin in August with more than 20,000 adults, mostly women in the age group between 15 and 35 years, to be enrolled in the program in both East and West Godavari districts. The main objective of th...
Inquiry on dredging activity Posted on 28-Jul-2009
Kakinada, July 27th: The state human rights commission directed the East Godavari District administration to conduct fresh inquiries over dredging activity in the vicinity of Hope Island offshore of Kakinada port. According to sources, the Commission gave this directive, following the petition file...
Crackdown on teachers Posted on 29-Jul-2009
Hyderabad, July 28th: The state government is to set up a task force to crack down on teachers and other employees who reportedly submitted fake certificates to get jobs and promotions. The task force will function under AP Higher Education Council. There are allegations that more than 30,000 perso...
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