Kakinada, Aug 5th: The East Godavari district administration initiated steps to meet the situation that arose out of poor rainfall in district in present rainy season. A special contingency plan is being implemented to meet the situation. It was noticed that the rainfall in present season fell short by 42 percent in the district. Authorities are giving top priorities to drinking water and agricultural needs. Steps are also taken to avoid pollution of drinking water sources on various storage and irrigation tanks on the identified mandals.
The district officials directed the rural water supply (RWS), district medical and health, besides panchayat raj departments to effectively monitor waster resources to prevent spread of diseases due to water contamination. The RWS was told to take appropriate steps to meet the shortage of drinking water and go for alternative arrangements. The irrigation officials had to monitor water supplies to tail-end farmers.
The collector, Mr. Gopala Krishna Dwivedi said all departments were directed to send proposals for financial allocations to various departmental heads at the state-level to meet the financial needs for effective implementation of the plan. He revealed that the administration has taken up special monitoring for implementation of the plan.
Kakinada, Aug 5th: With the drastic raise in tur dal prices, the East Godavari administration has initiated steps to sell the same at reduced prices. The Joint Collector for East Godavari and collector for civil supplies, Mr. Kona Sasidhar, conducted a meeting with representatives of dal mills and wh...
Hyderabad, Aug 5th: A 13 year old girl was tested positive for swine flu on Wednesday taking the total number of infected cases in the state to 68. The girl was a resident of Hyderabad and contracted the flu from her father who had earlier tested positive. He was treated at Chest Hospital, Erragadda....
Hyderabad, Aug 6th: For the time being the state government has asked the schools to collect the fee fixed in the previous academic year until the District Fee Regulatory Committee (DFRC) approves the revised fee for this year. The government has issued orders on Thursday evening restructuring fee in...
Ongole, Aug 6th: Two persons died and four other were injured in an explosion at a crackers unit in Ongole on Thursday. The incident occurred at Satyam crackers company situated on the Guntur Road near National Highway 5 when seven workers of the unit were working at 12 noon. Sources said that the bu...
Rajahmundry, Aug 6th: The two-day bankers strike from Thursday had its impact on trade on the first day itself in East Godavari with 400 bank branches of various nationalized and private banks being closed. The bank transactions worth Rs 500 crore were affected on the first day as bankers clearing ho...
Rajahmundry, Aug 6th: Joint Collector K. Sasidhar on Thursday laid emphasis on revenue collections like water cess, land revenue and maintaining tour diary by mandal revenue officers. He took serious note on cess collection from water users associations by the revenue authorities. The Joint Collector...
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