Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
The Haryana Government has agreed to supply more raw water to Delhi. Haryana will supply 70 cusecs of raw water for the Nanglio water treatment plant. Delhi Chief Minister Sahib Singh Verma said.
Two innovative education projects, Shiksha Karmi and Lok Jumbish, aimed at improving primary education are suffering. The projects are suffering as the Swedish government has stopped all funding for these schemes, after the Pokhran blasts.
Madhya Pradesh, with a literacy rate of 28 per cent in women and 44 per cent in general, has won this year's Gold Award under the 'International Innovations Awards Programme' of the Biennial Conference of the Commonwealth Association of Public Administration and Management (CAPAM) at Kuala Lumper.It shares the honours …
it was a change from despair to hope. Concerted efforts of the villagers of Alwar district in Rajasthan converted a dried up rivulet into a river, flowing throughout the year and benefiting as many as 70 villages. The first step to revive the rivulet
The Tarun Bharat Sangh was formed in Jaipur in 1975. The members came to Bheekampura in 1985 and surveyed the region for two years. It was then that they decided to undertake watershed development in the nearby villages. The organisation has since come a long way, involving itself in many …
Former President R. Venkataraman will inaugurate a national convention of NGO's which will focus on issues like Panchayati Raj, open market policy, environment and socio-political issues."More than 300 NGO activists are likely to participate in the two-day convention starting here on September 21, to deliberate on contemporary issues facing the …
The corporates and non-Governmental organisations (NGOs) should adopt villages and make full literacy possible, according to Dr. S.K. Somaiya, Chairman, Education Committee, FICCI.Inaugurating a workshop organised by FICCI, on "Total literacy - Government, NGOs and corporate-sector synergy", Dr. Somaiya said that in the 50 years of Independence, the country's literacy …
A school teacher posted at Gwaldam, one of the meeting-points of the Garhwal and Kumaon mountain ranges, claims to have found in traditional customs, means to overcome the growing apathy of the people towards conservation of flora in the hills. Through a campaign merged with the customs and values of …
With the government and the UN agencies sorting out the bureaucratic tangle involved in UN aided projects in India, the ambitious programme for community-based primary educations in India is all set to take off.
Five United Nations agencies for the first time have come together to extend $ 20 million aid to initiate a programme for universalisaiton of elementary education . To this effect an agreement was signed on Friday among the department of economic affairs, education and the five UN agencies--UNDP, Unicef, UNESCO, …
Concerted efforts were being made for the expansion of educational facilities in tribal areas of Madhya Pradesh, claims the State Government. As many as 4246 new schools had been opened over the last four and a half years in these areas, an official press release issued at Bhopal on Saturday …
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has pulled up the Tripura Government for irregularities like "diverting funds" allotted for the total literacy campaign (TLP), incurring "wasteful" expenditure and "failure" to take up the post literacy campaign(PLC) due to partial implementation of the TLC programme.
The Association of Indian Authomobile Manufacturers (AIAM) has allayed fears that the introduction of unleaded petrol will lead to higher benzene emissions and thereby would add to air pollution. According to K Kumar, chairman, technical committee, AIAM, and director (engineering) Maruti Udyog Ltd, the tests carried to assess this aspect …
the women members of gram panchayats ( gps) (village councils) in West Bengal ( wb ) have been involved in a determined and successful campaign to improve the economic, ecological and social conditions of their villages - a development that has taken place after the Constitution's 73rd Amendment Act, 1992, …
Concerted efforts have been launched to promote traditional water harvesting systems in the desert area of Kutch in Gujarat. Abdasa Development Forum, Saurashtra Trust, Kutch Mahila Vikas Sanga-than, Janvikas, Gandhi-dham Cham-ber of Commerce, Viveka-nand Training and Research Institute and a number of other NGOs from Kutch alongwith Kutch Mitra , …
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------D RAJASEKHAR, BANGALORE The Agricultural Development and Training Society (ADATS), has been leading more than 14,000 coolies (landless labourers and poor farmers) towards sustainable development in 691 villages of Bagepalli taluk (province) in Kolar district of Karnataka since 1977. The society aims at building up a mass agricultural labourer …
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ABANI KUMAR BHAGABATI, GUWAHATIthe Karbi Anglong district in Assam, the homeland of the Karbi tribe, is on the brink of an economic and ecological crisis. A high rate of population growth and overuse of land for shifting cultivation known as jhumming have led to alternative means of increasing productivity. While …
THE concept of joint forest management JFM is based on the interaction of forest departments with local people. However, the interests of people and forest departments could at times be at variance, as in Salehpur, a Gujjar-dominated village in Haryana near the border with Himachal Pradesh. The Hill Resource Management …
The city of Mysore in Karnataka has become the scene for an interesting battle royal. In contention is the People's park in the heart of the city, fought over by the Mysore Grahakara Parishat (MGP), a local organisation initiated by a few residents of Mysore, and the municipal corporation. The …
Gopal Paliwal had always been intrigued by the complex physiology of wild or rock honeybees. Today, this 28-year old entomologist boasts of a doctorate (from Wardha University) on the neuroendocrine and reproductive sys- tems of the rockbee (Apis dorsata). Unlured by offers from pharmaceutical companies and research laboratories, Paliwal chose …
