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 …
Tribals and farmers in Wladhya Pradesh have taken to the streets against atrocities by the police and the mafia at the behest of politicians. They held demonstrations in Betul, Hoshangabad Indore, Jabalpur, Khargone and Khandwa districts. On February 5,1998, about 24 groups assembled in Bhopal to declare a "peoples manifesto". …
The government gives benefits to certain private bodies like hospitals, charitable institutions, research organisations and NGOs. These benefits come in the form of very cheap land and income tax exemptions, among others. This is done in the hope that the work of these organisations will benefit the public. Does this …
BUILDING TENSIONS NGOs have raised issues that hurt political and business interests, inevitably creating tensions "It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution." M K Gandhi "The Story of my Experiments …
A PROJECT to develop green patches in the city of Ahmedabad has run into problems. The ambitious urban forestry programme, mooted by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), was started a year ago. Environmentalists say that lack of initiative by the voluntary agencies involved as well as municipal authorities is the …
IT is high time that non-government organisations (NGOS) demanded a national policy for the civil society. The words of K R Narayanan, the President of India, are pertinent in this context. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary celebrations of India's independence, the President said, "Social movements are required for …
FOR Santram Dikshit, a paper technologist at the Jan Sewa Ashram, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) near Solan, Himachal Pradesh, even trash is a valued resource and a business opportunity. Today, his organisation is engaged in using discarded plastic bags for manufacturing carpets. About 1.5 kg of plastic is required for …
Pakistan plans to boost its measles immunisation programme. The campaign may gain strong grounds under the Expanded Programme on Immunisation. Several non-governmental organisations and communities interested in creating demand for measles control are supporting the programme. Besides, they want to build up socio-political pressure to press for their demand. The …
On the major threat to the environment in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region: The major threat to the environment in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas is poverty and population growth. The need for more land for increasing population, expansion of agriculture and the growing demand for wood has taken a toll on the …
social activist Sanjoy Ghose's abduction and subsequent disappearance from Majuli, a riverine island in Assam, on July 4, 1997, raises questions about the interface between ngo s and militants. Many believe Ghose was murdered. To mark the first anniversary of his abduction, Ghose's friends are scheduled to hold protest demonstrations …
it threw up more questions than it set out to solve. The focus of the discussion at the fourth conference of parties (cop) to the convention on biological diversity (cbd) held in Bratislava, the Slovak capital, from May 4 to 15, was the sharing of benefits derived from biological resources …
for the past four months, the government has been sitting on an expert panel recommendation to ban the use of recycled plastic bags. The National Plastic Waste Management Task Force, set up in 1996, had recommended a ban on the use of recycled plastic bags for unwrapped food products. The …
delhi 's forests are shrinking at an alarming speed. The ridge is depleting at the rate of one per cent every year, reports Vatavaran , a Delhi-based non-governmental organisation. There has been no reforestation in encroached areas which have been cleared. Nearly 60 per cent of the encroached land has …
most Non-governmental organisations ( ngo s) are born out of a sense of dissatisfaction and idealism. This dissatisfaction arises due to the inadequate working of official bodies, dissatisfaction with the means and the end. It goes without saying that ngo s catalyse social equity and mass empowerment. This is because, …
a cynic would call it an exercise in futility. A workshop on "Assessing Progress Towards Sustainability in the Himalaya' might not sound like the most exciting way to spend a weekend in the mountains. But this was different. A motley crew of 15-20 representatives from non-governmental development agencies working in …
A non-governmental organisation has moved the Supreme Court, asking the government to challenge a patent given to a Texas-based company for basmati rice, or move the dispute settlement body of the World Trade Organisation. The Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, urged the court to direct the government to …
an improved biogas system has recently been developed by a Haryana-based non-governmental organisation. Compared with existing systems that produce inflammable methane by fermenting biological waste, this new system from the Social Centre for Rural Initiative and Advancement ( scria ) in Khori village, Haryana, is less expensive and can be …
the last two decades have witnessed a conspicuous increase in environmental awareness and movements all over the world. While in the developed countries the focus has been on issues such as global warming, in the developing countries, forest and land degradation, land and water pollution, the adverse impacts of development …
A non-governmental organisation has proposed alternative sources of power and water that could be developed instead of the controversial Epupa hydroelectric scheme and the Okavango water pipeline, reported The Namibian recently. In an open letter to the Namibian government, Earthlife Africa's Namibian branch states that a package of alternatives would …
pollution from vehicles in Delhi may increase by nearly 85 per cent by the year 2010, according to a survey conducted by a Delhi-based non-governmental organisation (ngo), Vatavaran. It shows that the pollution level may go up to 85 per cent by the year 2010 as against 72 per cent …
