Ahmedabad BRT
In coordination with local partner the Center for Environmental Planning and Technology, ITDP is providing direct technical assistance to Ahmedabad, India for the development of a Bus Rapid Transit system. The design of Ahmedabad
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A report of the consultation on the impacts of mining on children in India
Exploring the impacts of mining on children in India includes both children working in the mines and children affected by mining, for example, through displacement due to new mining projects or the effect of mining on their health.
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Letter to the Chief Planner, Lavasa Corporation Limited from Nandkishor Patil, Undersecretary to Govt on Lavasa Hill Station dated 07/04/2008
<p>Letter to the Chief Planner, Lavasa Corporation Limited from Nandkishor Patil, Undersecretary to Govt on Lavasa Hill Station dated 07/04/2008.</p>
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Bihars agriculture development: opportunities & challenges
Bihar agriculture has the potential to grow rapidly so as to meet the existing shortages and assume primacy in the national agricultural economy. The State has immense agricultural
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Development challenges in extremist affected areas
Widespread discontent among the people has plagued the Indian polity for sometime now. It has often led to unrest, sometimes of a violent nature. Over the years, statutory enactments and institutional mechanisms for addressing the various aspects
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Status of groundwater quality in India: Part-II
The ground water quality of the 14 Metropolitan Cities of Faridabad, Delhi, Jaipur, Bhopal, Indore, Jabalpur, Nagpur, Nasik, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Vishakhapatnam, Patna and Kochi has been assessed to see the suitability of ground water for domestic and irrigation applications. Twenty five ground water samples were collected each during pre- and post-monsoon seasons in the year 2004 and analysed for various physico-chemical and bacteriological parameters, heavy metals, pesticides and polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons.
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Pesticides residues in food 2006
The monitoring programme for pesticide residues in food undertaken by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (DAFF) through its Pesticide Control Service (PCS), at Backweston, Co. Kildare, is aimed at ensuring that consumers are not exposed to unacceptable pesticide residue levels.
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Executive summary for Chormari - Degarhat limestone deposit at villages Chormari and Degarhat, Satna
Jaiprakash Associates Limited (JAL) is a leading industrial house for civil construction and hydropower projects. M/s JAL has entered into cement sector during 1986 for diversification. Presently, the group owns two cement plants having annual production of 3.5 and 2.5 million tonnes, which are located in Rewa district, M.P. The limestone from proposed Chormari
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Specification for the grading of mangoes: draft CARICOM standard
This draft CARICOM standard was prepared by the Regional technical Committee (RTC) for Agricultural Commodities, hosted by the CARICOM Member State, Dominica.
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Performance of Indian cement industry: the competitive landscape
The cement industry is experiencing a boom on account of the overall growth of the Indian economy primarily because of increased industrial activity, flourishing real estate business, growing construction activity, and expanding investment in the
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Fertiliser growth, imbalances and subsidies: trends and implications
This paper examines trend in fertiliser use at national and state level and estimates imbalances in use of plant nutrients in different regions. The paper estimates regional disparities in fertiliser use and in benefits of fertiliser subsidy from different angles. Trend in fertiliser subsidy is presented in nominal and real terms and distortions caused by the subsidies are discussed at length.
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Inspection report on M/S Vedanta Aluminium Limited, Lanjigarh, Kalahandi
M/s Vedanta Aluminium Limited has established a refinery plant of capacity to produce 1 MTPA aluminia. The plant comprises of two alumina production streams of capacity 0.5 MTPA each and three steam generation plants. The steam generation plants not only cater the requirement of steam for production of Alumina from bauxite by also electricity of 75 MW is generated for plant uses.
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Hong Kong proposed regulatory framework for pesticide residues in food
The new subsidiary legislation to govern pesticide residues in food proposed by Hong Kong Food and Environmental Hygiene Department. Will take a positive list approach by primarily adopting the maximum residue limits and extraneous maximum residue limits of pesticides recommended by Codex.
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NHPC: people don't matter
India's National Hydroelectric Power Corporation has made a name for itself as one of the country's most ruthless corporations. As a state-owned company, NHPC has been able to ignore the conditions set out by India's Environment Ministry, state legislation and in project agreements to guarantee the rights of people affected by its projects. This report by Heffa Sch
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Industrial livestock production and its impact on smallholders in developing countries
The industrialisation of livestock production has reached most countries in the world. Three quarters of the world
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Water to the people: drinking water and water for livelihoods - conflicts and alternative concepts in India
Access to water and control over it is not only a matter of survival but an issue of democratic participation of all citizens in the management of their country's natural resources, particularly as conflicts over water increase.
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Protecting health from climate change: World Health Day 2008
In 2008, World Health Day focuses on the need to protect health from the adverse effects of climate change. WHO selected this theme in recognition that climate change is posing ever growing threats to global public health security.
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Report on common effluent treatment plants (CETPs)
This report is being filed in compliance with the Hon
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Africa: ecological footprint and human well-being
This report shows the impact of the average African to be low by western standards. But it also reveals that a growing number of African countries are now depleting their natural resources