The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has approved a Centrally sponsored scheme, ´Road Connectivity Project for Left Wing Extremism (LWE) Affected Areas´ to improve the rural road connectivity in the worst LWE affected districts from the security angle.
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BSNL to select vendors to set up towers in naxal areas
BSNL is likely to open the financial bids for the tender to set up mobile towers in the states affected by naxal violence.BSNL had floated the tender in August for supply, installation, testing, operation and maintenance for five years of 1,315 sites of 2G GSM network in left wing extremist (LWE) areas of Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa and West Bengal.
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Maintenance incentive & community involvement will be checks and balances
Uttar Pradesh, one of the four states that enjoyed a slice of the World Bank aid totalling nearly $1.9 billion, has built 39,568 km of rural roads since the inception of PMGSY. Sanjeev Kumar, Commissioner, Rural Development, tells Shashidhar Nanjundaiah why there is a need for community monitoring systems.