Garbage from Adityapur has found a new address — the banks of Kharkai, which is one of the major tributaries of Singhbhum’s lifeline Subernarekha.
Two truckloads of domestic waste, equivalent to 400 cubic feet, are being emptied on the waterfront every day, turning the erstwhile oasis into an eyesore and olfactory challenge.

A large swathe of land at Baharagora in East Singhbhum would sport a green cover by mid-year. The state forest department has taken up a massive water conservation project in the rural block to curb the dependency of locals on forest produce. As part of the project, the forest department will dig four big ponds, two check dams and 32 loose-boulder check dams. Forty hectares of barren land would also be levelled for cultivation.

Jamshedpur, Dec. 25: Congress MP and corporate honcho Naveen Jindal has hailed the state’s rehabilitation and resettlement policy (R&R policy), welcoming the emphasis on employing the displaced even as he put the onus on companies to resolve crises over land acquisition. The chairman-cum-managing director of Jindal Steel Power Limited (JSPL), who arrived in the city yesterday on his chartered flight, said he approved of the state policy and its stress on providing job to one member of every displaced family and doling out money for 30 years.

The state is ready for its first-ever agricultural census, which kicks off tomorrow.

The census — to be carried out in three phases — will cover all revenue villages in the 24 districts of the state. Jharkhand, which failed to compile the data despite embarking on the process in 2006-07, has decided to take up the task in right earnest this time.

Statehood Day celebrations ushered in hopes of better amenities in two densely populated pockets of East Singhbhum district.
Jugsalai residents had their long-awaited demand for clean drinking water fulfilled on Tuesday around 4pm with the online inauguration of a drinking water project to be operated by Jugsalai municipality. The residents of Patamda block reaped benefits from solar lights inaugurated at 6pm.

Ranchi, Oct. 27: The Planning Commission has set a December deadline for the Jharkhand government to complete a majority of the projects launched under the Centre’s Integrated Action Plan (IAP) in the 14 Naxalite-hit districts of the state.

Planning Commission senior consultant Ranjan Chatterjee, who arrived in Ranchi this morning, told The Telegraph, “We would like the state to ensure a majority of the IAP schemes are completed by December because it is a good season to work.”

The steel city, which has been recently stung by Japanese encephalitis, is yet to get the medical kit from National Institute of Virology (NIV) for conducting confirmatory tests.

The district surveillance office has written thrice to the Pune institute, which had sent teams to Jamshedpur twice after the outbreak of chikungunya and dengue. With suspected cases of vector-borne Japanese encephalitis touching 60, the East Singhbhum district health department is now sending blood samples to RIMS in Ranchi for confirmatory tests.

Ranchi, Sept. 16: The state government today indicated it would not accept Tata Steel’s demand of fresh mining leases as a pre-condition to going ahead with its proposed 12MTPA steel plant at Tontoposhi in Jamshedpur as per a 2005 MoU.

Reacting to the steel behemoth’s threat to dump the plan if fresh leases weren’t allotted, a senior official close to the chief minister questioned the company’s need for new mines even before setting up the proposed plant.

Munda mulls dam request to Orissa CM, heavy rain destroys medical records at government hospital

Jamshedpur, Aug. 14: A fevered East Singhbhum has switched into serious combat mode to keep a host of monsoon maladies at bay.

Already in the malignant grip of vectors spreading chikungunya and dengue, the district is pulling out all the stops to resist water-borne diseases like diarrhoea after yesterday’s flash floods affected 3,500 people in Bagbera, Shastri Nagar, Mango and Jugsalai.

The proposed uranium mining and processing plant at Gogi in Shahapur Taluk of Yadgir District, 75 km from here, is expected to extract 150 tonnes of uranium a year in the form of sodium diuranate (SDU) salt for about 15 years, giving impetus for atomic energy generation in the country.

The Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) is all set to exploit the techno-commercially viable deposits