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. …
In what could mark onset of the flood season in Assam, the Brahmaputra river is flowing above danger level at Dibrugarh and likely to rise further during the day. This was officially stated by the Flood Forecast Monitoring Directorate, functioning under the Flood Management Organisation of Central Water Commission, Ministry …
A day after it engaged in a heated exchange of words with civil society representatives, the government today acknowledged that discussions with Team Anna in the joint committee had ensured in vastly improving the provisions of the Lokpal Bill that it had originally drafted. At the same time, it suggested …
IN THE first week of April, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) oversaw an experiment to monitor, minute to minute, the water quality of the river Yamuna. The two-week trial at the water intake point of the Wazirabad water treatment plant in north-east Delhi was conducted by a private firm …
WATER resources and planning may shift from the State to the Concurrent List of the Constitution. The Ashok Chawla committee will make this suggestion when it tables its report before the Cabinet in June this year, sources say. The committee was set up in February this year to draw a …
The State Cabinet which met here today under the chairmanship of the Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan took number of important decisions pertaining to renovation, strengthening and expansion of canals of Tawa project. The Cabinet also decided to increase the existing irrigation potential of the Tawa project up to …
Union minister for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh recently took the stand that the Ken-Betwa river linking project should be abandoned as it could spell disaster from the ecological point of view but the Madhya Pradesh minister for agriculture Ramkrishna Kusmaria thinks otherwise. According to him, the project would improve …
Proposed Water Policy, being drafted jointly by water resources ministry and Plan Panel, to offer incentives to cut wastage In an effort to promote judicious use of water, the government is planning to offer incentives, such as tax breaks, to big industrial users if they are able to reduce wastage …
Captain Ajay Singh Yadav, Finance, Irrigation, Forest & Environment Minister of Haryana today urged the Union Minister of Water Resources to take up the matter with the Supreme Court of India for getting the Presidential Reference regarding SYL decided soon so that construction of SYL canal could be completed at …
Water pollutant levels are only set to rise with India facing increasing nitrate contamination in its water supply. Nitrate content in drinking water increases cancer risk as these compounds have been found to be highly carcinogenic. Their huge increase in water levels has been caused by nitrate fertilisers being used …
Down To Earth finds out how once-parched and barren district of Rajasthan, Barmer now sees development all around, thanks to the flood and rains. A barren district of Rajasthan is seeing development, thanks to rains last year and flood in 2006.
The Centre will come up with a new National Water Policy next year that will address the issues of water scarcity, management and conservation, Union Water Resources Minister Salman Khurshid said here on Monday. The Ministry has already undertaken an exercise to review the National Water Policy of 2002, and …
Sounding alarm bells against over-extraction of groundwater for irrigation and allied purposes, the Planning Commission has asked the government not to sanction any fresh irrigation projects unless the existing ones were completed. It has suggested to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that rational pricing of water and electricity be introduced and …
To solve the problem of water scarcity and encourage conservation of the fast depleting natural resource, the Centre will announce the latest National Water Policy next year, water resources minister Salman Khurshid said on Monday. Taking a step forward in reviewing the National Water Policy of 2002, the government had …
The National water mission, one of the eight missions in the National Action Plan for climate change, also cleared The Union cabinet on Wednesday cleared the creation of a national clean energy fund that will finance green energy projects and research ventures aimed at reducing India
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs today approved the constitution of a National Clean Energy Fund (NCEF) along with guidelines and modalities for approval of projects to be eligible for financing under this fund. The fund was set up to serve as a separate non-lapsable corpus for funding green energy …
The Union minister of water resources, Salman Khurshid, on Wednesday said his ministry is preparing a comprehensive national water policy that will deal with all aspects of development and water conservation. Khurshid was speaking to the media on the sidelines of the foundation stone-laying ceremony for a hostel of the …
Union Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh will visit the Narmada valley on April 10 and 11 for a spot assessment of the ground situation. The minister gave this assurance to the Narmada Bachao Andolan members and project affected oustees who held a day-long demonstration outside his office here on …
MINISTER for Water Resources N.K. Premachandran, who piloted the Plachimada Special Tribunal Bill, 2011, in the State Assembly, said the High Power Committee (HPC) had found enough evidence to prove the presence of dangerous levels of cadmium and lead in the sludge distributed by the Coca-Cola unit at Plachimada and …
