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Rural Roads

• Uttarakhand Pollution Control Board report to the NGT regarding a water source in village Malla Dhadharia, district Almora, Uttarakhand facing danger from the construction of a road, 02/06/2022

  <p>Uttarakhand Pollution Control Board report to the National Green Tribunal in compliance to the court order, May 11, 2022 (Ganesh Chand Sharma Vs State of Uttarakhand &amp; Others).</p> <p>The matter

  • 02/06/2022

  • • Water Resources
    • Rural Roads
    • Almora (D)
    • National Green Tribunal (NGT)
    • Court
    • Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)

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  green guarantee: The Centre will extend its rural job guarantee schemes to plantations. State governments have been asked to deploy "tree guards' to protect "avenue plantations' on rural roads

  • 30/10/2006

  • • Forest Conservation
    • Rural Roads
    • Vector Borne Diseases
    • Rural Development
    • Anti-Poverty Programmes
    • Unemployment
    • India
    • Kerala
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  The road ahead

  India with its deplorable rural roads can learn a lesson from Madagascar, which has successfully implemented a decentralised system of constructing roads

  • 14/11/2000

  • • Rural Habitat
    • Rural Roads
    • Political Decentralisation
    • Aid
    • Public Participation
    • Community Groups
    • Madagascar
    • India
    • Uttar Pradesh
    • Corruption

• Indian roads are getting safer but rural areas the new death-traps

  Rural areas account for over 60% of all deaths; Delhi may have highest number of fatalities but has one of the lowest number of deaths per 10,000 vehicles: 4.8

  • 30/03/2008

  • Indian Express (New Delhi)
  • • Habitat
    • Rural Roads
    • Traffic Accidents
    • Poverty
    • Delhi