Over 1,000 farmers have written a letter to the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to stop funding for the construction of the bullet train project as the acquirement of land by overlooking the prescribed guidelines.
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Three-day convention inaugurated on innovations in Green Highways
A three-day workshop on National Convention on Innovations in Green Highways has been inaugurated in the capital. Speaking on the occasion, Minister of State for Road Transport, Highways and Shipping Mansukh Lal Mandavia said that there would be a greater success in greening highways if the local farmers are also involved. The farmers if involved in plantation, maintenance, and protection would give them a sense of responsibility and ownership.
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AP project in limbo
Survey to alienate land in Polaki mandal of the district where Japanese company Sumitomo Corporation plans to establish an ultra supercritical thermal power project in Andhra Pradesh has hit a snag with Left parties and farmers´ groups opposing it.
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Farmers to renew agitation
A farmers group from Marathwada has threatened to renew protest to press for the release of compensation for farmers, whose lands have been used for raising electric towers.
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Biggest Solar Park to Be Set Up With Farmers´ Blessings
Farmers in drought-prone Chitradurga are preparing to tap solar energy in a big way to satiate the energy needs of the State with a 5,000 MW mega solar energy park. This will be the biggest in the state when completed.
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Karnataka to give Rs 8,000 cr farm loans
The Karnataka government has decided to give loans of Rs 8,000 crore to 20 lakh farmers in the state, said the State Co-operation Minister HS Mahadeva Prasad on November 17. The State government has already covered 10.50 lakh farmers and distributed Rs 4,400 crore.
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Clearance to Navi Mumbai airport, boost to property market
As the project affected persons/farmers agreeing for the State governmentÂ’s offer of compensation for their land loss to the Navi Mumbai international airport, real estate market in Navi Mumbai will surely get a boost, say builders and land developers.
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Interest subvention to continue to government banks
The Union Cabinet on August 2 approved continuation of the interest subvention scheme to provide short-term crop loans to farmers in order to ensure the availability of crop loans at affordable rates to farmers for loans upto Rs 3 lakh at the rate of 7 per cent per annum. This scheme has already been extended to crop loans borrowed from private sector scheduled commercial banks in respect of loans given within the service area of the branch concerned.
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Karnataka ryots ask govt for subsidised solar-IP sets
Farmers in Karnataka have urged the State government to grant 75 per cent subsidy on solar-powered pumpsets for their agruculture needs. Hit by frequent and unscheduled power cuts, farmers in the state are showing interest in alternative sources of energy to power their irrigation pumpsets (IP sets).
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Noida farmers agree to give land for 8-lane link road
Greater Noida Authority has said that farmers of Devla and Khodna Khurd villages have agreed to part with their land for the eight-lane Noida-Greater Noida link road. The Authority said that the 130 m link road will be ready by July. The Authority will soon begin taking over the land whose acquisition was quashed by Allahabad high court on October 21, 2011.