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टोरी-लोहरदगा रेल लाइन अक्तूबर से शुरू टोरी-लोहरदगा रेल लाइन पर आवागमन इसी वर्ष के अक्तूबर माह से शुरू होने की संभावना है। इसके शुरू होने से रांची से दिल्ली की दूरी कम हो जायेगी। Operations on the much awaited Tori-Lohardaga railway line is likely to start in October. With this the distance between

To improve the skewed child sex ration of 890 girls to 1000 boys a hospital in Gujarat will waive off charges if a girl child is born. The Sindhu Hospital run by Sindhu Sewa Samaj has launched this initiative last month. Read Bharat Yagnik's report in TOI.

All the villages in 15 districts of Bihar have been electrified.

A school in Mumbai has started this unique programme to create awareness for conservation of water. They have made a water tank at the entrance and the students have been motivated to pour all the unused water when they leave for home. Read this motivating story published in DNA. Other schools

This is the story of a village in Jharkhand. Mohlidih village in East Tundi block near Dhanbad did not have electricity till sometime back. Then with the help of rural electrification scheme the locals ensured that power reached them. Villagers say that because of no power no one used to come here

To ensure smokeless kitchens across rural India, 14.13 lakh LPG connections have been released to women of BPL families under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY). The scheme is currently under operation in 487 districts of 17 states. Under this scheme, LPG connections are provided to women of

Madhya Pradesh government becomes the first in the country to have a Department of Happiness. Passed by the cabinet on 15th July this will be called "Anand Vibhag". The idea was first mooted by state Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan some three months back. The department will identify the

Work under the rural electrification wing of Power Ministry is moving at a very fast pace. Out of 597,464 census villages, 587,900 villages (98.3%) have been electrified. Details can be had from the web site of Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana - www.ddugjy.gov.in. An App has also been launched

The Ministry of Power has organised a "Painting Competition on Energy Conservation - 2016" for school students. The Ministry invites children to paint a world of imagination and discover the magic of clean, green and energy efficient future. It is this future that the children will inherit. The

ग्रामीण विकास मंत्री नरेन्‍द्र सिंह तोमर ने कहा कि ग्रामीण विकास देश के विकास का आधार है ग्रामीण विकास मंत्रालय की कार्य-निष्‍पादन समीक्षा समिति की बैठक का शुभारंभ आज सुबह नई दिल्‍ली के भारतीय राष्‍ट्रीय सहकारी संघ (नेशनल कॉपरेटिव यूनियन ऑफ इंडिया) (एनसीयूआई) के सभागार में माननीय ग्रामीण विकास

दलहन उत्पादन बढ़ाने के लिए केंद्र सरकार द्वारा उठाए गए महत्वपूर्ण कदम देश में दलहन की बढ़ती कीमत पर नियंत्रण लगाने के लिए केद्र सरकार कई स्तर पर प्रयास कर रही है। एक तरफ सरकार विदेशों से दलहन आयात कर, और घरेलू स्तर पर जमाखोरों पर कार्रवाई कर जनता को राहत देने का प्रयास कर रही है, वहीं दूसरी ओर दलहन

One Meera Vashisht, a class VII student in US has raised 1.4 lakh Rupees through crowd funding to distribute LED bulbs to the underpriviledged. This Indian origin student learnt about the Ujala programme and came up with the idea of helping the poor to reduce their power bill and reducing CO2