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The Kerala Government on Wednesday decided to stand firm in its demand for the construction of a new dam in Mullaperiyar on the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border where the existing 116-year-old dam was a safety hazard for over 35 lakh Keralites living in the downstream regions. In the context of heated …
However, PPP model for effective utilisation of rivers, lakes will be encouraged The government today said there was no proposal for privatisation of water resources, but would encourage public-private partnership (PPP) mode for effective utilisation of the scarce natural resource. "Privatisation is not being done and it cannot be done," …
The government today said there was no proposal for privatisation of water resources, but would encourage public-private partnership (PPP) mode for effective utilisation of the scarce natural resource. "Privatisation is not being done and it cannot be done," Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said in the Rajya Sabha during …
Depletion of groundwater and its increasing pollution could be leading to a silent, nationwide public health crisis as aquifers in many stretches across India are becoming unfit for drinking, according to the government’s own figures. Depletion of groundwater and its increasing pollution could be leading to a silent, nationwide public …
BHUBANESWAR: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday requested the Centre to clear several pending projects in the irrigation sector in view of their significance for the tribal and backward regions and areas affected by left wing extremism (LWE). The Chief Minister met the Union Minister for Water Resources Pawar Kumar …
Advocating poor fiscal scenario of UP, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has demanded that the Centre should share 90 per cent of the financial burden of all projects of National Ganga River Basin Authority. He also said that a moratorium on maintenance of all projects should be enhanced from the existing …
Keeping in mind the limitations on increasing water supply, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday said that a large part of effort to plug the demand-supply gap must focus on increasing water use efficiency. “There is no regulation of ground water extraction and no coordination among competing uses. Inadequate and sub-optimal …
Against the backdrop of a Supreme Court direction asking the Centre to constitute a committee for rivers inter-linking, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia today said before inter-basin transfer of water a variety of issues needed to be settled first. While hoping that the proposed committee under the Water …
Terming the existing institutional and legal structures of water management in the country as “inadequate”, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday advocated for “urgent” reforms and batted for an “overarching national legal framework” for the governance of the sector. Inaugurating India Water Week, which will be celebrated in April every …
Terming groundwater a common resource, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, on Tuesday advocated strong laws to regulate its extraction. He also favoured transparent and participatory pricing to prevent water misuse. “Inadequate and sub-optimal pricing of power and water are promoting misuse of groundwater,” Dr Singh said, while inaugurating the …
The government has ruled out auction of water to private bodies but may consider publicprivate partnership (PPP) in wastewater treatment, Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said. “There are no plans to auction water to private bodies or to include them in any regulatory framework,” said Bansal. He was speaking …
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has written to Union Water Resources Minister P. K. Bansal to fast track the Renuka Dam project. The Chief Minister has expressed concern that further stalling of the project will jeopardise the city's water security. The dam has been proposed on the Giri River in Himachal …
Concerned over growing water scarcity, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, on Tuesday said transparent and participatory pricing of the natural resource was required. “Inadequate and sub-optimal pricing of power and water are promoting misuse of groundwater,” Dr Singh said here while inaugurating the first-ever India Water Week, organised by …
ON 1 MARCH, reports came in from Arunachal Pradesh that the Siang river, the ‘lifeline’ of the Northeast, had dried up, “shrinking about a kilometre from its banks” at Pasighat as the Chinese had diverted its water. Doomsday scenarios poured in as locals exclaimed, “In my lifetime, I have never …
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today asked the Irrigation Department to moot a proposal for amending the Northern India Canal and Drainage Act to check the growing malpractice of water theft in the state. In a meeting held to review the functioning of the department this morning, Badal asked the …
Highly critical of being furnished a “half-baked” reply on diversion of waters of the Brahmaputra and its tributaries by China, the standing committee on water resources has once again asked the Water Resources Ministry to compile complete data of major river systems in the country at the earliest. In its …
Grappling with the Supreme Court order to set up a special committee for implementation of the rivers inter-linking project, the Water Resources Ministry is consulting the Law Ministry on seeking a review of the order. The Ministry, it is reliably learnt, is seeking opinion for review of the mammoth committee …
NEW DELHI, March 19 – The Centre has on Monday claimed comprehensive technical studies were carried out for safety of dams including dams in the North-East. In a Rajya Sabha reply to a question by Biren Baishya, Minister of State for Planning and Earth Sciences, Dr Shwani Kumar said the …
Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Saturday called upon Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to direct the Union Water Resources Ministry to delete “objectionable sub-clauses” from the draft Dam Safety Bill 2010. In a letter to the Prime Minister, she recalled her previous communication, sent in July 2011, in which she had urged …
GUWAHATI, March 13 – The State has lost an area of 5,95,155 bighas of land due to erosion by the Brahmaputra between 1971 and 2009 and according to information received from seven districts, a total of 40,246 families have been rendered homeless by erosion. Informing this while replying to a …
