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  • Mumbai may lose its open spaces

    Mumbai may lose its open spaces

    <font class="UCASE">a discreet</font> letter, <font class="UCASE">che/gen-318/dp/gen,</font> dated October 16, 2006, from the commissioner of Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (<font class="UCASE">mcgm</font>) was recently discussed during its improvements committee meeting. Its subject line has worried urban planners and activists: "Policy guidelines for allowing development of lands reserved for public purposes of gymnasium, gymkhana club, stadium, swimming pool, recreation ground (<font class="UCASE">rg</font>) and play ground (<font class="UCASE">pg</font>).' <br>

  • Lead heavy

    a recent study has shown alarming levels of lead in the schoolchildren of Delhi. The study was jointly funded by the World Health Organisation and the ministry of environment and forests. Nearly

  • Goa s Mokasodari system

    The <i> mokasodari </i> system has its origin in pre-liberation Goa when mokasodars used to collect revenue from the villagers. Says Amrut Kasar, land rights expert, a <i>mokasodar</i> was not just a revenue collectors, he enjoyed a high social and political status in the village. The Portuguese colonial rulers allowed the <i>mokasodar'</i>s permanent land rights. <br><br> But there is no legal clarity over these rights because the original residents of the villages, the <i>goankar</i>s, also claim ownership over the land they have been tilling and living on for centuries now. <br>

  • Nadappa village

    A patch of land near the Nadappa village comprised 50 tribal families at one point.

  • Up for grabs

    <b> Violators make hay, regulators don't shine</b> <br>

  • No place to go

    No place to go

    Sagar Refugee Colony, Ganga Sagar <i>gram panchayat</i>: Ever since her older son went off to work as a daily labourer in Kashmir two years ago, Sahajadi Bibi has to worry a little less about how to feed her family of eight.

  • Contested terrain

    The business of settling new-formed land, rehabilitation of environmental refugees and building and maintaining embankments is subject to much political manoeuvring. Anthropologist Amites Mukhopadhyay of Kalyani University, West Bengal, who's researched these machinations extensively, calls it " <i>char</i> politics'.

  • Land factor

    Land factor

    Dhurli village, Dantewada district, August 30, 11.30 am: Armed police in riot gear stand in clusters around the walled compound where people of this quiet, picturesque village are to gather for a <i>gram sabha</i> hearing. They are to decide today whether they want Essar Steel to set up a 3.2 million-tonne plant on their land for Rs 7,000 crore.

  • Delhi Govt. gets land for power plant

    The Delhi Government has taken possession of land given by the DDA for construction of a gas-based power plant at Bamnauli. The 50 acres that will be owned by the Delhi Government and leased to the Power Department has fetched the DDA Rs.109 crore. The land will be used for setting up a 750 MW gas-based power plant. Power Department officials said the environment impact assessment would now be carried out by NTPC and the plant would be completed by 2010. A MoU has already been signed with Petronet for supply and purchase of gas.

  • CM's no to SEZs on farm land

    In an effort to preserve the productive area for, the state government has decided not to allow setting up of any special economic zone (SEZ) on agricultural land, however, the entrepreneurs willing to invest on the barren land are most welcome. Rather, the government will facilitate investors, who are willing to invest in barren areas, claimed Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal. Dhumal was interacting with mediapersons after inaugurating a new OPD complex, at Nurpur Civil Hospital, here today. It has been made at a cost of Rs 119 crore.

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