Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Narendra Singh Vs State of Bihar dated 26/11/2024. A letter petition was filed by Narendra Singh alleging that in his Rampur, district Vaishali, Bihar, the Mukhiya Sanjeet Kumar Paswan of Lashmipur Brahmbatta Panchayat is constructing the …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Narendra Singh Vs State of Bihar dated 26/11/2024. A letter petition was filed by Narendra Singh alleging that in his Rampur, district Vaishali, Bihar, the Mukhiya Sanjeet Kumar Paswan of Lashmipur Brahmbatta Panchayat is constructing the …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, KolkataIn Re: News Item published in Newspaper The Hindu, dated 26.06.2023 titled “One dead, 35 injured after ammonia leak in Bihar dairy. A notice was sent from the office of the National Green Tribunal to the Raj Fresh Dairy, where the …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Amarshakti Vs State of Bihar & Others dated 14/02/2019 regarding illegal sand mining in rivers Sone and Ganga at Koelnar and Patna in Bihar. The illegal mining was resulting in affecting the flow of the rivers. The Tribunal had directed …
The death toll in the two high intensity quakes that rattled Bihar on Tuesday rose to 19 on Wednesday, with two more deaths reported from Vaishali and Siwan districts. “The death toll in the quakes that hit Bihar on Tuesday has gone up to 19. Altogether 82 persons have been …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Shri Hazi Arif & Ors Vs. State of U.P. & Ors dated 05/02/2014 regarding encroachments on the Green Belt at Zone No.5 Vaishali and the water drainage 127 MLD from Sahibabad Drain No. 1. Original Source: http://www.greentribunal.gov.in/orderinpdf/16-2014%20(OA)_5Feb2014.pdf
Post-cyclone heavy rain and high-speed wind have destroyed more than 70 per cent of banana in Vaishali district of Bihar. The district is known for banana production all over the country. According to District Agriculture Officer (DAO) Dinesh Prasad the actual damage to the cash crop could be known later …
Customized community-based microinsurance for climate-related risks - a presentation by David M Dror at CSE Annual South Asian Media Briefing Workshop on Climate Change, 2013 held in New Delhi from September 18-19, 2013.
Around 5.5 million people have been affected due to floods in 20 districts of Bihar , with the death toll going up to 160, official figures showed. With the flood situation remaining critical, thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes and struggle for survival under the open …
The Government’s flagship health insurance scheme for the poor has sharply reduced out-of-pocket expenditure in three States, says an evaluation by German enterprise GIZ and independent research body Prognosis Management & Research Consultants. About 90 per cent of families enrolled in the Rashtriya Suraksha Bima Yojana (RSBY) said they did …
Bitter resistance against the cancer causing asbestos based plant of West Bengal based company Utkal Asbestos Limited (UAL) and the insensitivity of the government towards the fatal threat of asbestos fibers to villagers resulted in the blockade of 12 km stretch of Mahuwa-Hazipur Road in Bihar from 6 O’ clock …
The holy Ganga is a poisonous river today. It’s so full of killer pollutants that those living along its banks in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Bengal are more prone to cancer than others anywhere else in the country, says a recent study. Conducted by the National Cancer Registry Programme under …
The holy Ganga is a poisonous river today. It’s so full of killer pollutants that those living along its banks in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Bengal are more prone to cancer than others anywhere else in the country, says a recent study. Conducted by the National Cancer Registry Programme under …
Encephalitis toll in Bihar has risen to 221 since May this year following death of 12 more patients on Wednesday, official sources said. Altogether 153 children have died due to symptoms of encephalitis in the Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital and Kejriwal Charitable Hospital in Muzaffarpur, while 52 children …
Letter to Navin Kumar, Chief Secretary, Govt of Bihar from Medha Patkar on Utkal Asbestos Limited [UAL] in Vaishali, Bihar. Original Source: http://www.asbestosdiseaseawareness.org/wp-content/uploads/Medha-Patkars-Letter-to-Chief-Secretary-Bihar.pdf
Microinsurance or Community-Based Health Insurance is a promising healthcare financing mechanism, which is increasingly applied to aid rural poor persons in low-income countries. Robust empirical evidence on the causal relations between Community-Based Health Insurance and healthcare utilisation, financial protection and other areas is scarce and necessary. This paper contains a …
It took two two-and-a-half-metre bamboo poles and a small transmitter worth Rs 50 to start Radio FM Mansoorpur in Bihar’s Vaishali district. The radio station, started in 2002 by Raghav Mahato, a radio mechanic, shut four years later because he did not have a licence. Mahato, now in his late …
PATNA: Altogether 18 children were born blind in the arsenic affected blocks of Bhojpur district during the past three months, Bihar Health Minister Nand Kishore Yadav confirmed. The cause of the blindness was not yet known, but health department officials were in touch with ophthalmologists, he said. The arsenic affected …
Govt. could manage 25-30 days against stipulated 100 days of work per year Job programme has not done well in the State despite efforts, say official sources Patna: Angry unemployed residents of a village in Bihar
Around this time of the year, bright yellow flowers carpet the fields in scores of villages in Bihar's Vaishali district. They are not mustard crops waiting to burst into full bloom but cauliflower seeds that have ushered in a revolution of sorts
ANAND S.T. DAS A frightening spread of encephalitis and cerebral malaria in Bihar's northern and southern districts has killed at least 69 children since July first week, underlining what health experts and Opposition leaders have termed as insufficient medical facilities, poverty and lack of hygiene in the state's rural belts. …
