Besides administrative machinery, the corporate sector is also playing an important role in the implementation of the Integrated Watershed Area Management Programme in Madhya Pradesh. Works to the tune of about Rs100 crore are being made by various institutions in watershed areas under various projects of corporate social responsibility. Corporate institutions have been selected under public-private partnership and given responsibility of projects of various watershed area management projects.

Bhopal: As much as 99.5 percent amount has been spent in first quarter of year 2011-12 on Ladli Laxmi Yojna being implemented successfully in Madhya Pradesh. An amount of Rs. 2 crore 15 lakh 8 thousand was allotted for this period. Out of this, a total amount of Rs. 2 crore 14 lakh 7 thousand has been spent which is 99.5 percent of allotted amount. Twenty two districts of Madhya Pradesh are leading in spending 100 percent or more for the implementation of Ladli Laxmi Yojna. Maximum 103.3 percent amount was spent by Ratlam.

In order to ensure smooth supply of drinking water in various parts of the State facing drinking water scarcity, the State Government have sanctioned an amount of Rs 7 crore 22 lakh 54 thousand for transportation of drinking water in nine districts during the current summer season.

The process of allocating relief funds on the proposals by district is going on. In the series, Rs 30 lakh has been immediately allocated to Dewas district for providing relief to farmers, whose crops have been damaged due to frost and cold wave.

The State Government have allotted an amount of Rs 363.23 lakh for drinking water transportation in twelve districts.

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The rural India has now started getting benefits from the RTI as residents of Keolari village in Katni district succeeded in protecting their fundamental human Right to Water using RTI as a tool.

Madhya Pradesh plans to launch a mass anti-filaria drug administration programme to curb a disease spread by culex mosquito bite which causes permanent swelling of a patient's hands and feet.

Giriraj Kishore Poddar, ruling Bharatiya Janta Party leader, on Tuesday alleged in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly that illegal mining was being carried out in Katni district.

Members of the Congress, the main opposition, on Tuesday walked out of the Madhya Pradesh Assembly to express dissatisfaction over the Government's reply to a question over the role of the Chief Minister's secretariat in an alleged mining royalty scam.

Power would be generated from 'bhusa (paddy/wheat chipping)' and corn stems in Katni district of Madhya Pradesh. A private company is setting up a 7.5 MW biogas power plant at Gudar village in Badwara tahsil in Katni district. Madhya Pradesh Electricity Board has already entered into an agreement to purchase electricity with the company, according to official information.