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. …
Haryana has filed a fresh application in the Supreme Court seeking to restrain Punjab from going ahead with executing the Shahpur Kandi dam project on the Ravi river. A Bench comprising Justices TS Thakur and Gyan Sudha Misra allowed six weeks to the Centre to respond to Haryana’s plea after …
Dharamsala, December 2: The canalisation of the Swan in Una district has helped in reclaiming thousands of acres of agriculture land, but has also threatened many natural wetlands. The destruction of natural wetlands has destroyed the natural habitat of many rare wildlife species, including the sarus crane. The wetlands of …
In a bid to find a permanent solution to the Cauvery water sharing dispute, the Supreme Court on Monday asked Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka to work towards an amicable solution. Refusing to mediate in the vexed issue involving distress water sharing formula between the States, the Bench …
Moves fresh petition in Supreme Court for direction to neighbouring State Tamil Nadu on Thursday filed a fresh petition in the Supreme Court for a direction to Karnataka to release 52.8 tmcft of water till February 2013 to save crops raised on 15 lakh acres. The State also wanted the …
SHILLONG: As global warming is taking its toll, a remarkable change in climate is seen. The same is experienced in Meghalaya, where the crisis for drinking water is one of the biggest problems despite the state receiving good rainfall. To tackle this problem before it goes out of hand, an …
After power and land, the Centre does not want to open up water as another area of dispute with the state governments. Instead of rushing through with a national water legislation, the government will engage with each state to build up a consensus on metering of use of water, even …
Bommai writes to Union water resources minister The Karnataka government, in a letter to the Centre, has contended that the prime minister has legal powers under the Inter State Water Disputes Act to review the September 19 decision taken in his capacity as the chairperson of the Cauvery River Authority …
CRA will have to meet again for any review/stay of order, says Bansal Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday ruled out a stay or review of the decision of the Cauvery River Authority (CRA) directing Karnataka to release 9,000 cusecs of water every day to Tamil Nadu till October 20, …
Amid demands by leaders from Karnataka to review the Cauvery River Authority’s decision of asking the state to release 9,000 cusecs of water for Tamil Nadu, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has convened a meeting of political leaders from the state on Monday. Leaders from Karnataka, including External Affairs Minister S …
BJP president Nitin Gadkari wrote to Union Water Resources Minister Pawan Bansal in July this year to push for the release of central funds for contractors of an irrigation project declared as seriously flawed by India’s premier water resources technical organisation. The Gosikhurd project, the biggest in drought-prone Vidarbha, is …
Opposition to overarching legal framework of principles on water A conference of Water Resources and Irrigation Ministers here on Wednesday saw opposition to the Centre’s proposal to evolve an overarching national legal framework of principles on water, to link financial assistance to “aggressive” water sector reforms and to set up …
As it convened a meeting of the National Water Resources Council, chaired by the Prime Minister, on Wednesday to discuss the proposed National Water Policy, one of the Central government’s key suggestions in the draft document — to evolve a broad overarching national water framework law — was objected to …
Against the backdrop of frequent floods in Assam and allegations of its failures to deal with the situation, the Centre has decided to restructure the Brahmaputra Board and turn it into a body to develop and manage water resources of the entire northeastern region, reports PTI. The Water Resources Ministry …
MUMBAI: A non-existing company owned by BJP Rajya Sabha MP Ajay Sancheti bagged irrigation projects worth Rs 1,350 crore in Maharashtra in 2007-08. The firm, Shakti Kumar M Sancheti Ltd, was renamed SMS Infrastructure in November 2005. Yet, Sancheti was awarded contracts by the Vidarbha Irrigation Development Corporation (VIDC) under …
There has been a sharp decline in groundwater levels in several parts of Delhi, West Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan over the years, the government said on Friday. According to the data released here, which is part of country’s first ever aquifer atlas, Himachal Pradesh has the best groundwater level …
The Supreme Court today rejected the government’s plea for reviewing its judgment (of February 27), directing the government to go ahead with its ambitious project to inter-link rivers in India. “We have gone through the review petition and the relevant documents. There is delay in filing the review petition. In …
With questions being raised about the feasibility and environment impact of the inter-linking of rivers project, the Supreme Court on Tuesday decided to have a relook at its February 27 decision this year that set the ball rolling by forming a special committee to implement the project. On separate review …
The Centre has sought the comments of Cauvery basin States on the inability of Karnataka to release 9000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu as directed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the meeting of the Cauvery River Authority on September 19. Secretary Union Water Resources D.V. Singh, who is …
Deputy CM of Maharashtra Ajit Pawar of the NCP may have come under the mega-irrigation scam cloud. As water resources minister, Pawar approved projects totaling Rs 20,000 crore in an eight-month period in 2009 without the mandatory clearance of the governing council of the Vidarbha Irrigation Development Corporation. Thirtytwo projects …
Mumbai: Deputy CM Ajit Pawar of the NCP may find himself embroiled in the controversy surrounding the large-scale and arbitrary increase in the costs of irrigation projects in the state. During his stint as water resources minister, Pawar “hurriedly” granted project approvals totalling Rs 20,000 crore during an eight-month period …
