Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
With Uma Bharti being made the Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, environmentalists who have been struggling for years against construction of large dams, especially those on the Ganga and its major tributaries, are hoping Bharti will take some effective measures to save the rivers from …
The Government of India has sanctioned 28 flood management schemes for Assam at an estimated cost of Rs 583 crore. The Government of Assam had submitted 32 medium and major flood management schemes last year, out of which 30 projects have been approved under the Flood Management Programme. This was …
The state government has decided to move the Supreme Court (SC), challenging a recent decision of Union cabinet to set up an autonomous Polavaram Project Authority (PPA) for execution of the controversial Polavaram multi-purpose project on the Godavari in Andhra Pradesh. "We are in the process of consulting lawyers. Within …
The Centre has rapped the State government for failing to provide water in quality-affected habitations. “The achievement in 2013-14 as far as quality-affected habitations, rural population covered with piped water supply, number of tests done in laboratories, number of sustainability structure constructed is very poor,” said Ministry of Drinking Water …
Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje has accused the Haryana Government of “usurping Rajasthan’s share of water” from the Yamuna and has urged the Centre to intervene in the matter. In a letter written to the Union Water Resources Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, Ms. Raje has said that Haryana was usurping Rajasthan’s …
Putrid water is being released by drainages With water from the Yamuna becoming increasingly contaminated and unfit for human consumption in Agra and Mathura, the Uttar Pradesh Government has served notice on the Delhi government to ensure that toxic water is not released into the river by factories. The State …
Pending irrigation projects - Question raised in Rajya Sabha, 10/02/2014. Minister Of Water Resources, Thaawar Chand Gehlot has stated that "the clearance of projects by Technical Advisory Committee of Ministry of Water Resources for consideration of the Planning Commission to accord Investment clearance is subject to furnishing by the State …
Statement of Shri S Jaipal Reddy Minister of Earth Sciences in response to Rajya Sabha Starred Question No. 268 for 10th February, 2014 regarding dams in North Eastern Region asked by Shri Biredner Prasad Baishya. One of questions asked was whether either dams or mega dams, which are being constructed …
Accelerated irrigation benefits programme - Question raised in Lok Sabha, 06/02/2014. Minister of Health & Family Welfare and Water Resources Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad in reply to the question said "progress of the projects is also being monitored on selected basis through satellite imagery taken by National Remote Sensing Centre …
Connecting Ken-Betwa To Be First Of 30 Projects Costing 5,60,000cr New Delhi: After almost a decade of political objections and green opposition, the Cabinet is likely to clear on Thursday the ambitious project to inter-link rivers, beginning with the process of connecting the Ken and Betwa rivers in Madhya Pradesh. …
Centre comes out with clear cut procedures to avoid disputes in future The Centre has identified three major challenges that need to be addressed with regard to sharing of Krishna and Godavari rivers between Telangana and the residuary State of Andhra Pradesh. The first is the allocation and protocol of …
People of as many as 18 districts of Assam are prone to several water–borne diseases following a fact that arsenic in ground–water of these districts is found beyond permissible limit (0.05 mg/litre as per WHO norms). The Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department of Assam in a latest official communiqué submitted …
Funds allocated for Narayanpur left bank, Upper Tunga projects The Canal will help in irrigating an additional 1.5 lakh hectares in Yadgir, Gulbarga and Bijapur districts. The Centre has sanctioned Rs 5,500 crore to Karnataka for two major irrigation projects -remodeling of Narayanpur left bank canal and Upper Tunga project. …
India, where water availability per person has shrunk by 70 percent in six decades, will set up a monitoring agency for government, industry and private users to help meet its target of cutting leaks and waste by a fifth. Improved water use will help India save 500 billion rupees ($8 …
A recent report of the Union water resources ministry states that villages in Rajasthan are most affected by contaminated water in the country. According to the report, in Rajasthan, 25,504 rural habitations or 1.09 crore people are getting water with chemical or bacterial contamination. Assam comes next with 12,879 rural …
Staring at sever water crisis in future amid practically no additional available resources to meet the rising demand, the government on Tuesday approved a Rs 351 crore scheme to vigorously generate awareness about water-use efficiency, conservation and management. The scheme proposes to generate awareness by targeting various stakeholders including general …
Delhi’s excessive reliance on groundwater and its rampant, often illegal, extraction through tubewells and borewells have left eight districts in the city “over exploited”. As per the data collected by the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) and based on surveys conducted in 2009, Delhi is among the four States that …
Water at 75 locations of major rivers, such as Ganga, Yamuna, Chambal, Sone and Wainaganga are not fit for drinking, the Government said in the Lok Sabha on Thursday. The Central Water Commission (CWC) under the Water Resources Ministry, which monitors water quality at 396 stations located in all the …
Questions being raised about possible floods in downstream areas The level in the Tehri dam in Uttarakhand on Sunday reached 818.50 metres against the permissible mark of 825 metres, Tehri District Magistrate Nitesh Kumar Jha told The Hindu . According to Northern Regional Load Despatch Centre (NRLDC) data, the level …
The Ministry of Water Resources (MoWR) has reiterated its claim that 20.52 sq km area of erosion-hit Majuli river island has been reclaimed. The Brahmaputra Board took up protection of Majuli island from floods and erosion in January 2004. Since then no loss of landmass of the river island has …
