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Governance And Institutions

  • SC committee hears public views on hazardous waste

    Gujarat Pollution Control Board should function with total transparency, giving access to all the information that it has to the public, besides asking the new units to show where they plan to

    • 21/04/2000

  • Isro chief wants NGOs role in development

    The chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) K Kasturirangan has called for the involvement of non-government organisations (NGOs) in the country for rural development in a more

  • Madhya Pradesh opens universal education on net

    The Madhya Pradesh government's education guarantee scheme schools have gone online with the launch on Tuesday of a website - www.fundaschool.org - a concept aimed at enabling a global partnership

    • 12/04/2000

  • India's right to know

    Poor people must be the agents of their own development and Aruna Roy has empowered them to claim what is rightfully theirs by exercising theirs by exercising their right to information. 25 years

    • 08/04/2000

  • A global message

    Jockin Arputham has been conferred with the 2000 Ramon Magsaysay Foundation Award for International Understanding. He is recognized for extending the lessons of community building in India to

    • 08/04/2000

  • More ground to cover

    Self-help activities of villages in Dewas district in Madhya Pradesh, cold run into rough weather if the government does not come forward to complement villagers' efforts in a constructive

  • M.P. Minister curbing tribal NGO activities

    The Shramik Adivasi Sangathan(SAS), which is active among the tribals of Betul district in Madhya Pradesh has launched a frontal attack against the State Minister for Tribal Welfare alleging that he

  • Sea salt pollution

    Researchers have discovered how airborne sea salt particles may be involved in helping to determine the levels of some greenhouse gases as well as air quality in coastal urban

  • Labour of love to fulfil a dream

    Ten kilometres from Manoharpur, Thakurmunda and its adjoining villages have taken up an exemplary project. Starved of irrigation facility, villagers of the area are digging a 20-km canal for a

  • Clinton launches 'IT kiosk'

    Nayala, a hamlet near Jaipur became the first village in Rajasthan to launch a high-tech "information kiosk" with a plan to connect all panchayats in the state through Internet.Visiting US President

    • 24/03/2000

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