Report filed by the Additional Secretary, Local Self Government Department, Kerala in the matter of Tribunal on its own motion Suo Motu based on the report dated 26.06.2023 received from Hon’ble Justice A.V. Ramakrishna Pillai on the Present Status of Waste dump site at Cubaloor in Mangalpady Panchayat, Kasargod District, …
the Kerala State Pollution Control Board (kspcb), on July 1, 2005, announced the detection of high cadmium content in the effluents of Coca-Cola's plant at Plachimada in Palakkad district. The soft drinks major is already fighting a legal battle over groundwater exploitation by the plant, which is currently not functional. …
The battle goes on. The Perumatty gram panchayat in Kerala recently rejected an application of Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Private Limited, a subsidiary of multinational soft drinks giant Coca-Cola, for a two-year licence for its Plachimada bottling unit. In April 2005, the Kerala High Court (hc) granted permission to the company …
With only 1,150 manually operated rain gauges spread across a state that has 5,600 panchayats, measuring rain in Karnataka was always a gamble. But this scenario will now change: Varsha-gd, an indigenously designed telemetric rain guage, is to be installed in 27 district headquarters. The government will install the device …
prime minister Manmohan Singh approved a whopping Rs 174,000 crore for the Bharat Nirman scheme on May 16, 2005. The scheme, which will be operational from 2005 to 2009, acuses on improving physical infrastructure in rural areas. Its thrust areas are irrigation, roads, water supply, housing, electrification and telecom connectivity. …
Madhab Baru is a worried man. His livestock keep falling ill these days. The cows pass black dung and the goats, especially the kids, suffer from diarrhoea. It's the black dust from the factory across the road, says the small time farmer of Harirampur, a remote village in West Bengal's …
In a blow to the Perumatty gram panchayat in Kerala's Palakkad district, on April 7, 2005, the Kerala High Court (HC) permitted the Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Private Limited to resume production at its Plachimada plant. The company can draw not more than 0.5 million litres of water per day. The …
In the Kerala High Court, a village panchayat loses its battle for water with Coca-Cola. The Perumatty village panchayat in Palakkad district of Kerala has lost its legal battle for the right to water with Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Private Ltd., the soft-drink manufacturer. A Division Bench of the Kerala High …
This article is based on the findings of a recent survey of the midday meal programme in Madhya Pradesh. Comparison of the new ‘suruchi bhojan’ with the old ‘daliya’ programme in the government primary schools in the survey area and observations on programme implementation in Karnataka, suggest a pressing need …
the North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (neepc) was recently forced by the people to order a resurvey of the 110 megawatt Dikrong hydroelectric project in Arunachal Pradesh. Heated discussions marked the public hearing on the proposed project, held at Upia. Deputy commissioner of Papum Pare district, Bida Gadi, who was …
The outward expansion of larger metros, gradual changes in land use and occupations have transformed the rural hinterland into semi-urban or ‘peri-urban’ areas. Inhabitants of these ‘peri-urban’ regions are increasingly threatened by a deteriorating quality of life prompted by deforestation, water depletion and pollution as well as by the poor …
The consumerism of post-industrial societies has put natural resources under acute pressure. The worst hit has been water. India is no exception to this crisis. Here, governments have responded by framing laws to manage and conserve this scarce resource. On the face of it, this seems quite a good way …
in a move towards direct funding of Panchayati Raj Institutions (pris) by the Union government, the 12th Finance Commission (fc) has decided to recommend allocating one per cent of the divisible pool of central taxes and duties for pris. This is the first time pris will share the central tax …
Controversy brews over the Haryana Panchayati Raj (second amendments) Bill. A fortnight after the Haryana legislative assembly swiftly approved the bill, it has assumed political overtones: the (opposition) Congress is vehemently against it. The amendments empower the state government to pre-pone elections to panchayat bodies by four months, instead of …
• All government orders and notices affecting panchayats should first be circulated through state panchayati raj ministries and their departments, and the Union government, before implementation. • The state panchayati raj ministries, including the Union ministry, will review existing laws to look for ingression into panchayat powers. • Subordinate legislations …
as haryana gears up for panchayat elections during January-February 2005, its model panchayat, Kausli in Rewari district, doesn't seem too enthusiastic. Kalpana Kumari Yadav, a resident, says with a touch of indignation: "I voted in the 14th Lok Sabha elections but my name is missing from the new electoral list …
The position of women sarpanchs in Panchayati Raj Institutions might soon be reserved for more than five years if the resolution passed at the national roundtable on panchayati raj, held at Raipur in Chattisgarh on September 24-25, 2004, is translated into practice. The roundtable has left it to the state …
saving the act: The prime minister's office (PMO) has issued a directive that Union cabinet proposals having a bearing on decentralisation will have to be cleared by the newly-formed ministry of panchayati raj affairs, along with other ministries concerned. This is to ensure that ministries do not make parallel implementation …
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function illustration() { var popurl="image/20040930/30-illus.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=500,height=450,scrollbars=yes") } Scarcity amidst plenty summarises the water problem ailing hill-stations today. They receive good rainfall but there is no mechanism to collect runoff for later use. Result: water shortage every year. How did the Brits manage it? They cashed on the terrain, and gravity, …
