Villages

Lalgarh (WB), June 21(ANI): Personnel of the CRPF, BSF and West Bengal police on Sunday started moving from Lalgarh to Ramgarh in an operation aimed at sanitising the main road and other connecting routes and wresting control of the 17 villages....

Banaskantha (Gujarat), June 13 (ANI): About 35 villages situated in the desert region of the Rann of Kutch are suffering due to dearth of an effective water supply system....

New Delhi, June 1 (ANI): Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde today said that the government has set a target of providing electricity to 1,18,000 villages in the country under Rajiv Gandhi Gramin Vidyutikaran Yojna by 2012....

New Delhi, May 11 (ANI): The Election Commission has declared that people in 6,000 villages and hamlets in seven states and two Union Territories, going to polls in the final phase of Lok Sabha Elections, are vulnerable to threats and intimidation....

Ghatshila (Jharkhand), May 11 (ANI): A newly constructed road under the 'Pradhanmantri Gram Sadak Yojana' has connected 200 remote villages in Ghatshila in Jharkhand. It has brought a solace in villagers' lives here....

Etawah (UP), May 8 (ANI): Eight villages in Uttar Pradesh boycotted the fourth phase of general elections on Thursday to protest against the lack of irrigation facilities....

Vashisht (Kullu), May 5 (ANI): Residents of Vashisht and several other villages in Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh have resolved to boycott the general elections on May 13 as a mark of protest against the construction of mini-hydro project, which they claim has usurped ...

Dhanbad (Jharkhand), May 1 (ANI): Villagers in Dhanbad have been immensely benefited by the Central Government sponsored rural electrification scheme....

Abohar, April 29 (ANI): With health awareness being minimal in rural Punjab, ASHA, a scheme launched by the Government of India under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), is benefiting villagers....

Chaith (Madhya Pradesh), Apr 26 (ANI): After living in the dark for ages, the residents of Chaith village in Gwalior District of Madhya Pradesh are now enjoying the benefits Solar energy....