Construction continues at Mayawati’s dream project in Lucknow

September 14th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways R.P.N.Singh Monday said the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government will undertake, within an year, the total road construction work done by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government during its five-year tenure. "What the NDA had done (in road construction) during its five-year regime, we will complete the same just in one year," Singh told reporters at a press conference here.

September 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Supreme Court appointed Central Empowered Committee (CEC) has recommended on Friday to halt the construction of Ambedkar Park in Noida with immediate effect. The Mayawati Government is constructing the Bhimrao Ambedkar Park in Noida with an estimated cost of Rs.550 crore on the banks of the River Yamuna.

September 3rd, 2009 LUCKNOW - The Uttar Pradesh government Thursday charged the central government with trying to put "stumbling blocks" in the path of Chief Minister Mayawati's dream project - the Rs.550 crore Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Park in Noida. Addressing a press conference here Thursday evening, state Chief Secretary Atul Kumar Gupta said: "It is strange that the union environment ministry is trying to put stumbling blocks in the path of the project after it had already given its clearance." According to Gupta, "the union environment ministry submitted its report on the project to the Central Empowered Committee (CEC), constituted by the Supreme Court under former union environment secretary P.V.

August 29th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Hundreds of farmers took to the streets in Uttar Pradesh's Dadri district, seeking return of farmland acquired to set up a power plant. Reliance Power held by Anil Ambani's ADA group had announced setting up of a 3,500 megawatt gas-based power plant in Dadri at a cost of 2.2 million dollars.

July 16th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday said Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's move to slap the SC/ST act on Congress leader Rita Bahuguna Joshi was "vindictive" and exposed the "autocratic" functioning of the state government. "The government's move to book the Congress leader under the SC/ST act is disproportionate and vindictive," senior BJP leader and Lucknow MP Lalji Tandon told reporters here.

July 5th, 2009 LUCKNOW - The century old Hazratganj Kotwali building in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow city was razed to ground by the Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) on Sunday in order to make way for a multi storey parking complex. The Kotwali (or police station) was situated almost in the heart of the city.

June 10th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Low-cost carrier IndiGo will start operations in Uttar Pradesh July 5 with daily flights from Lucknow to Bangalore, Mumbai, Kolkata, New Delhi and Patna. "We have been eyeing Lucknow for a while," IndiGo president Aditya Ghosh said at a media briefing here.

May 10th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Varun Gandhi Sunday said the recommendation of a court panel to revoke the stringent National Security Act (NSA) against him was a slap on the face of the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh. 'The recommendation to revoke the NSA against me has come as a defeat for the state government.

May 10th, 2009 LUCKNOW - With its huge dome set majestically on tall carved pillars, the new imposing structure in the Uttar Pradesh capital may seem like a shrine. But it is just the police outpost meant to guard Chief Minister Mayawati's dream project - a memorial to Dalit icon B.R.

April 22nd, 2009 AHMEDABAD - State-run exploration giant Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) will commission its Rs.1,493-crore project at Dahej in south Gujarat by March 2010, a top official said Wednesday. The project, once completed, will have the capacity to extract methane-propane gas and liquid petroleum gas (LPG) from the liquefied natural gas (LNG), which will be sourced from Petronet LNG's Dahej terminal, he said.

April 11th, 2009 KOLKATA - It was his dream that Tata Motors small car Nano would roll out from the Singur facility, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said here Saturday. 'It was my dream that Nano will roll out from Singur and that dream is not completely shattered,' Bhattacharjee said while releasing a book, 'Creating Employment Generation and Opportunity', by Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) candidate for Lok Sabha election from South Kolkata Robin Deb.

April 1st, 2009 MUMBAI - Larsen & Toubro (L&T), the country's leading engineering and construction conglomerate, Wednesday said it has bagged a Rs.1,245 crore (Rs.12.45 billion) contract for the construction of dams as part of the 1,200 MW Punatsangchhu-I hydroelectric Project in Bhutan. The project is being set up by the Punatsangchhu-I Hydroelectric Project Authority which has been constituted through an agreement between the governments of India and Bhutan, a company statement said.

March 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Realty Major Parsvnath Developers Ltd Thursday announced the launch of Parsvnath Royale Floors, a housing project in Lucknow that offers houses in the range of Rs.1.39 million-2.75 million. The city-based developer will invest Rs.1 billion (Rs.100 crore) to execute the project that will have houses with a floor area in the range of 435 square feet-1,135 square feet, the company said in a statement.

February 12th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Infrastructure and minority welfare grabbed the lion's share of allocation in the second budget of the 20-month-old Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh, presented by Finance Minister Lalji Verma in the state assembly here Friday. Top priority was been accorded to the development of infrastructure in the Rs.1,335.96 billion (Rs.133,596-crore) budget, with the allocation for the sector taking a 19 percent jump over that allocated in the previous year.

December 28th, 2008 LUCKNOW - It's not for the corporate sector this time. Students of the premier Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIM-L) will now apply their managerial skills to teach villagers sanitation and hygiene management.