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More in: MARGAO: The issue of garbage disposal dominated the gram sabha of the village panchayat of Telaulim on Sunday. The locals discussed in details as to how to resolve the issue of garbage disposal. We need to find a solution to the garbage ...

The State Government will seek six weeks time from the Supreme Court for conducting gram sabhas to decide the fate of bauxite mining in ecologically sensitive Niyamgiri hills. We will request the apex court to grant us six more weeks for holding ...

district to sell bamboo under community forest rights ( CFR ). Now it is the turn of 18 gram sabhas that will be first in the country to sell tendupatta (leaves) under CFR . The Forest Right Act 2006 grants right of ownership, access to collect, use, sale and ...

Chief minister Manohar Parrikar, while hoping that panchayat bodies take due cognizance of the sentiments of the gram sabhas while exercising their powers under Section 66 of the Goa Panchayati Raj Act, 1994, has also ruled out giving "overriding" powers to ...

Report by Odisha Diary bureau, New Delhi: Odisha Panchayati Raj Minister Kalpataru Das receives Rashtriya Gaurav Gram Sabha Puraskar. The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh presented the Rashtriya Gaurav Gram Sabha Puraskar (4th Prize Incremental PSI Award) ...

Villagers at the gram sabha of the Colva panchayat held on Sunday vehemently voiced their opposition to a proposed commercial project undertaken by the state's tourism department and urged the panchayat not to grant its approval for the project.

Odisha government today said it would be in a position to take a decision on holding gram sabha meeting in two-three days after the Law department submits its views on the Supreme Court judgement on proposed bauxite mining atop Niyamgiri hills.

NEW DELHI: With the clock ticking, the tribal affairs ministry has set the ball rolling for village assemblies or gram sabhas to decide on allowing Vedanta to source bauxite from the Niyamgiri hills, considered sacred by the local Dongria Kondh ...

TEAM HERALD teamherald@herald-goa.com MARGAO: The controversial housing project at Utorda dominated the gram sabha of the village Panchayat of Majorda-Utorda-Calata on Sunday. Sarpanch Moises Vaz had to face a barrage of questions on the ...