Bundelkhand farmers boycott polls

बद्री नारायण को मिलेगा 2006 का 'केदार सम्मान'

बांदा। समकालीन हिंदी कवि बद्री नारायण को उनके कविता संकलन 'शब्द पदीयम' के लिए वर्ष 2006 के केदार सम्मान से सम्मानित किया जाएगा।
बद्री नारायण का 'शब्द पदीयम' वर्ष 2004 में वाणी प्रकाशन ने प्रकाशित किया था। ये उनका दूसरा कविता संकलन है। नारायण का पहला कविता संकल 'सच सुने हुए बहुत दिन हुए' 1992 में प्रकाशित हुआ था। बद्रीनारायण फिलहाल गोविन्द बल्लभ पंत सामाजिक विज्ञान संस्थान इलाहाबाद में कार्यरत है।

(NEWS) CM faces people's wrath in Banda

Due to Election Commission (EC) restrictions, only few security personnel were present at the venue, providing an opportunity to people to come openly against the CM. They raised slogans against the government and expressed anguish at the alleged patronage of criminals and mafia dons by the CM and his government.

A Hindu caretaker for Hazrat Imam Hussein's Imambara in Banda

Banda (Uttar Pradesh), Mar.13 : Over two centuries have gone by, and yet, the family of Vasant Rao carries on with a tradition of looking after an Imambara dedicated to Hazrat Imam Hussein in the tiny hamlet of Banda in Uttar Pradesh.

A Hindu family, the Raos describe themselves as being free from rigidly drawn boundaries of religion.

Vasant Rao's ancestor Ramaji Rao, a Maharashtrian Hindu serving in the Maratha Peshwa's army, built the Imambara in 1750. Ramaji was a staunch devotee of the Imam, and the imambara is also referred to as "Ramaji ka Imambara" in his memory. This venue is a unique example of communal amity, where even after 257 years, the tradition of offering prayers the Muslim way still continues.

De Beers Commences Reconnaissance in Banda, India
(March 7, '07, 8:58 A Jewelbiz India Report)

De Beers India Pvt Ltd has recently started ground reconnaissance in the Banda diamond prospect area covering 2,190 square kilometers in southwestern Uttar Pradesh state, India. According to a statement issued by Canada-based Pebble Creek Mining Ltd, which owns the reconnaissance permit for the area, it would also carry out an airborne magnetic survey.

The commencement of reconnaissance work follows a Consulting Services Agreement executed in late December 2006 between De Beers India and Pebble Creek. Under it, De Beers was awarded the right to an 85 per cent equity interest in a prospecting license by performing all exploration and taking the project through to a feasibility study.

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(VIDEO) Cheque out how UP helps farmers

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(NEWS) Bundelkhand is Asbestos rich : ALLAHABAD University
IT’S ALLAHABAD University’s (AU) priceless New Year gift to the country, especially to residents of Bundelkhand region in Uttar Pradesh.

Head of University’s Earth and Planetary Sciences Department Dr JK Pati has discovered a rich treasure (deposit) of high grade asbestos at Bargaon village in Jhansi district for the first time in Uttar Pradesh. The deposit, it is said, has the potential to turn around the economy of the poverty-stricken Bundhelkhand.

The region had been lacking natural resources. Besides, water shortage here has even led to crop failures and starvation deaths.

शासन ने बांदा को सूखाग्रस्त घोषित किया

बांदा। चार साल से सूखे से कराह रहे बांदा जिले को आखिरकार शासन ने सूखाग्रस्त घोषित कर दिया है। इसकी सूचना शासन से जिला प्रशासन को मिल गई है। जिले को सूखाग्रस्त घोषित करने की जानकारी प्रभारी मुख्य विकास अधिकारी जीसी पांडेय ने डीआरडीए की बैठक मे उपस्थित जनप्रतिनिधियो और अधिकारियो को दी।

Tourists in Panna to enjoy New Year

Panna, Dec 29: At the tourist village Madla in Panna district tourists assembled to celebrate new year in a unique way. Madla is situated on the bank of Ken river. Tourists from India and abroad visit here in large numbers. In Panna district all the hotels and lodges have been fully booked including Tree House.

The tourists from abroad who want to take part in the new year eve are ready to pay any cost to the hotels. The tourists, fond of sight seeing, have desire to celebrate the new year away from noise of cities and in the lap of nature.

This is the reason that they did not halt at five star hotels but like to halt in tents on the bank of Ken river.

After sixty years of neglect, Information Act changes UP village

ALKA S PANDE

Villagers say now they know how to get work done, the one on a bridge (right) has begun

BANDA, DECEMBER 24: In the six decades after Independence, nothing actually worked in the Naraini block of Banda in UP’s Bundelkhand region.

(NEWS) Little work done on job scheme

Only 40% of sanctioned funds used; just a fraction of those who got job cards were employed

Lucknow, December 20: While the State Government may take credit for doling out unemployment allowances, it seems to have taken little initiative in ensuring proper implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS). Almost a year after the Centre launched the scheme (on February 5 this year), it is yet to take off properly in most districts of Uttar Pradesh.

At the first review meeting of the State Employment Guarantee Council on November 2, the rural development department produced dismal results. Only a fraction of the sanctioned funds were spent in most districts. Moreover, very few of the labourers who were issued job cards actually managed to get any work.

Overall, the State has managed to utilise just 40 per cent of the total funds of Rs 77,10,294. While 33,64,041 job cards were issued, only 19,14,803 people got work.

Consider this:
Of the 22 districts where NREGS was implemented, Gorakhpur fared the worst with barely 25 per cent of the total funds of Rs 2,73,553 being used.
In Sonebhadra, where the scheme was initiated to curb Naxalism, only 28 per cent of the total funds of Rs 4,32,718 was spent.
The neighbouring district of Mirzapur, barely 27 per cent of the total funds of Rs 3,91,657 was utilised.

In Banda, one of the State’s poorest districts in the Bundelkhand region, 1,03,082 job cards were issued, but only 35,737 people were given any work. Here too, only 26 per cent of the total funds were used.

Jansamwad brings people closer to administration

THE JANSAMWAD programme on All India Radio (AIR) will complete its two years on December 18. All sections of society have hailed the collector’s approach to redress the public grievances.

The programme is broadcast on every Monday from 3 pm to 4 pm. The phone callers from far flung areas of the district call the collector S S Shukla and other departmental heads and file their complaints.

In Bundelkhand people believe that it is not possible to meet collector or other senior officials and only influential persons are able to meet them. But Jansamwad has changed the view of the people. One of the callers from Banda even chatted with the collector and demanded hand pump in her ward. The demanded was fulfilled within seven days.

(बांदा : NEWS) 80 हजार गरीबों ने घर-बार छोड़ा.

बांदा। स्थानीय प्रशासन और सूबे की सरकार के दावे भले ही कुछ हों लेकिन भुखमरी और गरीबी से त्रस्त लगभग 80 हजार लोग काम के अभाव में जिले से पेट की आग बुझाने के लिये दो माह के अंदर महानगरों की ओर पलायन कर गये हैं। इसमें दलित और पिछड़ी जातियों के लोग ज्यादा हैं। राष्ट्रीय ग्रामीण गारंटी योजना की कामयाबी का ढिंढोरा पीटने वाला जिला प्रशासन कुछ ठोस कर पाने में लाचार है।