Some projects under the Smart Cities Mission would not be able to meet the June 30 deadline and the respective state governments would be responsible for completing them thereafter, Union Housing and Urban Affairs Secretary told the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Housing and Urban Affairs. In its report on the …
This paper presents the potential of rainwater harvesting for drought-proofing India's villages. It urges members of parliament and state legislative assemblies to ensure that the governments take up rainwater harvesting on a large scale to improve local food security. There is enough rainwater in every village of India to meet …
The Delhi High Court has asked the Union government to issue a final notification on the proper utilisation of fly ash discharged by thermal power stations in the country. A division bench comprising Chief Justice S N Variava and Justice S K Mahajan rejected the government's contention that, after the …
after the Patents (Amendment) Bill 1999 was passed by Parliament in the budget session, the Government of India on June 2, 1999 through a gazette notification, raised the patenting fee. The patenting fee has been raised in different categories which vary from Rs 5,000 to Rs 75,000. Experts feel that …
the Patents (Amendment) Bill 1999, which was passed recently by the Indian Parliament, seems to have left a number of questions unanswered. Many Parliamentarians, social activists and scientists have voiced their concern over the fallout of this Bill. They have accused the government of ignoring the interests of the nation …
A few years ago, at a public meeting organised by the Centre for Science and Environment on air pollution, T N Seshan - who retired in 1997 as the Chief Election Commissioner of India - had jokingly pointed out that there are more laws in India per square inch of …
In November 1996, the villagers of Hamirpura got the shock of their lives when a Jaipur-based contractor came with a licence from the Rajasthan government to catch fish in the Arvari. A long battle followed, which ended with the villagers managing to stave off the fisheries department. But Hamirpura and …
it seemed that a chance for serious introspection and an attempt to look for answers to the varied problems that besiege India was wasted. The six-day special session of the Indian Parliament
