This brochure offers decision-makers in the real estate and energy industries, as well as urban and municipal developers, a broad overview of the topics of decentralised energy generation and supply, and raises awareness of the goal of decarbonisation by 2050 at the latest. The advancing digitalization in the construction and …
As monsoons approach the hills of Garhwal, residents of Tehri town face the threat of eviction. If the construction of the dam is on schedule, the residents will have to be evacuated latest by November. An increasing number of deer in Delhi zoo are contracting tuberculosis, as a result of …
after wreaking havoc in Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh, forest fires have gone out of control in the Melghat region of Amravati district in Maharashtra. The most disturbing fact is the destruction of smaller herbs and shrubs, thereby causing massive damage to biodiversity. In a letter to the Union environment …
the Citizens for Preservation of the Quarries and Lakes Wilderness (cpqlw), a non-government organisation has accused the army of carrying out illegal construction and felling of trees in a section of the Delhi Ridge assigned to it for conducting exercises. The area of the Ridge in question is that surrounded …
on May 8, 1999, the Rural Litigation & Entitlement Kendra ( rlek ), a Dehradun-based non-governmental organisation ( ngo), moved an application with the National Human Rights Commission ( nhrc), saying that the Uttar Pradesh ( up ) government is not complying with nhrc 's orders which had directed the …
the Supreme Court has directed the Delhi government that a minimum flow of 353 cusecs per second be maintained in the Yamuna river throughout its course. The court was hearing a petition by the Pani Morcha, a non-governmental organisation ( ngo ), which said that a minimum flow of water …
the tiger census conducted by the authorities in Madhya Pradesh has come in for a lot of criticism. The census report released in 1998 stated that the number of tigers in Madhya Pradesh had gone up to 927 in 1998 compared to 912 in 1993. But the London-based Environmental Investigation …
I read your piece on Amartya Sen with great interest. I, too, have some reservations on the stand taken by the Nobel laureate. As an economist schooled in the uk and the us , Sen is most likely to ignore poverty's ecological dimensions. But can the people working to alleviate …
the innovative attempt to give money in return for the traditional knowledge of the Kani tribals of the Western Ghats as Intellectual Property is now complete. Royalty from the sale of
"if you look at the figures of the Van Mahotsav (forest festivals), you will find that millions of trees have been planted. But their survival rate has always been under question," says Prem Kumar Dhumal, chief minister of Himachal Pradesh. He talks in similar vein about the crores of rupees …
A people's movement, like that in Ralegan Siddhi, Maharashtra and Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh (MP), is indispensable before ecological regeneration can be undertaken in Rajasthan. This was stated by Anil Agarwal, director, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), a New Delhi-based non-governmental organisation (NGO) in a presentation to Rajasthan chief minister …
developing countries should ensure transfer of mechanism for environmentally sound technology, capacity building and financial transfer, so that they can reduce the potential for negative environmental impact from trade liberalisation. This was stated by Klaus Topfer, executive director of United Nations Environment Programme ( unep ). He was speaking at …
Both systems exist in Rajasthan. Small, cheap and easy-to-build water harvesting structures and a large canal. One relies on traditional wisdom and local expertise to function. The other, the Indira Gandhi Canal, has been built and maintained by a centralised bureaucracy. The canal passes through the sewan grassland regions of …
This paper discusses the political circumstances which help explain why the insanitary living conditions of such a large section of India’s urban population have been ignored, and contrasts these with the circumstances which explain successful sanitary reform in Britain in the second half of the 19th century. In India, there …
the Cabinet committee amendments to the Land Acquisition Act ( laa ), 1894, is expected to be tabled in Parliament in the Budget session. The Bill has been drafted by the Union ministry of rural areas and employment ( mra&e; ). If passed, it is likely to displace millions of …
Development Programme (UNDP) will provide assistance worth US $2.55 million to India for large-scale adoption of high-yielding hybrid rice technology. The initiative is part of the Food Security Program under the UNDP-supported Country Cooperation Framework for India for the period 1997-2002. According to recent estimates, to ensure food security at …
After sustained lobbying by non-governmental organisations, ( ngo s) the Asian Development Bank ( adb ) has admitted that the Theun-Hinboun hydropower project is having a negative impact on the livelihoods of thousands of people living in central Laos. The admission is particularly significant because, until recently, the adb was …
The Thai government is expected to come under pressure to speed up the probe into the Kanchanaburi encroachment scandal after a group of ngo s conducting a fact-finding mission concluded that the three luxury villas overlooking Srinakharin Dam are in a watershed area. The ngo s' move is expected to …
the construction of a building inside the northern ridge in Delhi by the state's forest department has been criticised by environmental organisations. Non-governmental Organisations Forum, a body of eight ngos working on in Delhi on environmental issues submitted a letter in this regard to the chief minister of Delhi, Sheila …
hydrological data, currently scarce in India, is expected to get a boost soon. A World Bank (wb) -funded project has set up several Hydrology Information System (his) centres in the Indian peninsular states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Gujrat, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa. The his aims to …
A journalist in the Press Club of Delhi wanted to know how to start a non-governmental organisation ( ngo ). It is the fastest way to make money, he said. You get grants worth several lakh rupees for doing nothing, just a little bit of writing. Which goes to show …
