...than the old one?
Under the 1983 act, the village assembly the lowest level of panchayati raj, from where the primary inputs for development should have come was the most neglected.
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Red alert in the east
Real estate developers and government agencies are devouring the wetlands in communist ruled Calcutta
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Skewed approach
When government agencies do give out information, they think it is above reproach
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Axe subsidy, not the bus
<p style="line-height: 22px; font-size: 14px; margin-top: 5px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Supreme Court order upholds diesel price hike for bus corporations, but
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Rural employment guarantee scheme does not work as envisaged
THE National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (nrega) promised to provide livelihoods in villages by providing a minimum of 100 days of employment to every household. It was envisaged that this would
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Running out
Unless better management strategies are evolved, water scarcity in the country will only be accentuated by growing industrial and municipal demands.
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Windfall
The year 1998 saw a record production of wind energy
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Killer disease
The world is getting fatter, sicker
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Preserving a crumbling fragment of history
The king of Khurda started conservation work on the 750 year old Sun Temple in Konark in 1793, but the main porch is still in a dilapidated state
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"The management did not adhere to safety norms"
It is 15 years since 60 tonnes of methyl isocyanate MIC leaked outfrom Union Carbide Corporation's UCC plant in Bhopal, killing 5,000 people and affecting more than five lakh. Even today, many questions remain unanswered: How did the gas leak oc
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Senseless science
the state of Indian science is a grand paradox. Ostensibly one of the largest scientific communities in the world, Indian scientists have failed to produce world class research. Science writer
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Fatal food
Indians consume dangerous amounts of pesticides through their food everyday<br> <br>
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Writer's block
Science journalism in India suffers from a lack of understanding among writers and a reluctance on the part of scientists to explain their work
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Unravelling science for the lay person
NCSTC Network, a voluntary organisation, links and helps smaller organisations working to demystify science for the masses and dispelling blind belief in miracles wrought by godmen
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A meadow ruined by greed
Villagers near Udaipur fear that even if they get back their traditional grazing ground, which is at the centre of a mining lease dispute, things will never be the same for them
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MONEYMAKERS
ALTERNATIVE FUEL: An Indian company, Motor Medics (India) Ltd (MIL) and a Canadian firm, Alternative Fuel Systems (AFS), have signed an agreement to sell and later manufacture systems which
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Coming back to life
When villages work with each other to regenerate the environment, there are unexpected blessings. Sometimes, they are as big as a river
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Mulkanoor guiding light of India's cooperative movement
THE first thing to note about the Mulkanoor cooperative is that it is an exception, not the rule. Given the otherwise dismal state of the cooperative movement in India, how many cooperative societies can boast of a turnover in excess of Rs 55 crore? Or have one of its members go on to become the prime minister of the country (P V Narasimha Rao, in this case)? Or not have a single defaulter on the roll of its hundreds of borrowers, with total lending in a year exceeding Rs 20 crore? Or have operations ranging from dairies to a modern rice mill.<br>
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Soft quarries
If soil quarrying is a threat in the <i>terai</i>, mining poses huge hazards in the hills of Kumaon. Soapstone or talc and magnesite quarries have been taking over commons for over two decades, depriving local people of large tracts of the forestland, pasture, watersheds and farming land.<br>
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How enabling is ICT?
In February, 100 odd people got together at the quaint little town of Baramati. All had a common goal: to exchange ideas on the use of information and communication technologies ICT for development. Tucked away in the heart of south Maharashtra s sugar