Amrit Yojana to improve facilities in villages: Munenakoppa
The Hindu
The ‘Amrit Gram Panchayat’ Yojana launched to mark the 75th Independence Day celebrations aims at improving basic infrastructure and amenities in villages and to check migration to urban areas, Minist
The ‘Amrit Gram Panchayat’ Yojana launched to mark the 75th Independence Day celebrations aims at improving basic infrastructure and amenities in villages and to check migration to urban areas, Minister for Handloom and Textiles Shankar Patil Munenakoppa said. Chairing the review meeting on Amrit Gram Panchayat Yojana at Dharwad Zilla Panchayat on Saturday, the Minister said officials should strive for effective implementation of the programme so that a comprehensive change could be brought about in villages. Mr. Munenakoppa said that the government had laid down the guidelines to be followed while implementing the projects under the scheme and they should be strictly adhered to. Elaborating on the scheme, he said in each taluk, several villages would be chosen for the project and the works should be executed in a time-bound manner and completed.
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Friday pledged to mobilise people in resistance against the BJP-led Union government’s “anti-agricultural worker, anti-farmer, anti-worker, anti-people” laws and policies till they are all repealed, the party said on Friday. In a statement issued here, the CPI(M) said the members took the pledge following a three-day meeting held at Thiruvananthapuram.

Expressing the need for more number of socially responsive engineers and lawyers for furthering development of the country, Governor Thaawarchad Gehlot here on Friday lauded St. Aloysius institution for widening its service in the education sector by opening separate institutes for engineering and law











