This study investigates a community-owned and managed model of solar irrigation (led by women self-help groups) implemented by Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN) in the Bastar district of Chhattisgarh. It aims to assess the impact of irrigation access on agricultural incomes. The study also highlights the challenges and roadblocks …
This study investigates a community-owned and managed model of solar irrigation (led by women self-help groups) implemented by Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN) in the Bastar district of Chhattisgarh. It aims to assess the impact of irrigation access on agricultural incomes. The study also highlights the challenges and roadblocks …
Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel is learnt to have instructed officials to begin the modalities of the process and submit an action plan before the next Cabinet meeting, which is likely to be held after the swearing-in of additional ministers on Tuesday. After the farm loan waiver, the newly elected Congress …
Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of T. N. Godavarman Thirumulpad Vs Union of India & Others dated 14/09/2018 regarding non-forest activities including mining in forests under the garb of lease executed by the by the State of Chhattisgarh or permission granted by the State of …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Bhupesh Baghel Vs Anil Agarwal dated 17/07/2018 regarding non-forestry activities and enroachment by Balco in Bastar, Chhattisgarh. The allegation in this contempt petition is that large areas have been used for non-forest purposes by M/s. Balco in spite of …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Y.N.Pandey vs. The Collector, Jagdalpur & Others dated 12/01/2017 regarding water pollution threat to Dalpatsagar Lake in Jagdalpur, Bastar District, Chhattisgarh. A compliance report on behalf of Municipal Corporation Jagdalpur has been submitted according to which …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Hira Singh Markam Vs Union of India & Others dated 23/12/2016 regarding the order passed by the State of Chhattisgarh dated 23rd May, 2014 granting Forest Clearance under Section 2 of the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 to divert 83.12 ha …
RAIPUR: As district administrations across Chhattisgarh are aiming to go Open Defecation Free by August 15 and January 26, nearly 90 tribal school girls residing at a residential school in Maoist-hotbed Bastar division, walk with a mug 200 metres away from the hostel to relieve themselves in forest. Besides danger …
An environment ministry panel has accorded clearance to a captive iron ore mine project of state-run NMDC in Bastar district of Chhattisgarh. The iron ore mine (Deposit 4) would cater to the requirement of NMDC's upcoming integrated steel plant in Chhattisgarh. According to the minutes of the Expert Appraisal Committee …
Raipur: As many as 310 farmers committed suicide in Chhattisgarh in the last three years, Revenue Minister Premprakash Pandey informed the state Assembly on Wednesday. In a written reply to a question by Congress's Amarjeet Bhagat, he gave district-wise break-up of farmers' suicides between January 1, 2013 and January 31, …
Like hundreds of other villages across Chhattisgarh, the residents of Bhansi village of the district in Bastar division have also been relieved from the persistent drinking water supply problem through the State Government’s popular ‘Solar Nal-Jal Scheme.’ Earlier, the women folk of the village had to depend upon the hand …
An ‘Eco forest’ will be established on the non-arable land on the banks of rivers in the religious and cultural cities of Rajim and Shivrinarayan through ‘Campa Fund’ in the State. Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand, at the State Campa Working Committee meeting held here on Wednesday, directed the Forest Department …
Bio farming has altered the direction and way of 2,000-year-old traditional agricultural practices of farmers residing in villages such as Bhusaras, Hiranaar and Surnaar of Dantewada district of Bastar region. With a unique way of farming, without using hybrid seeds, fertilizer, insecticides, and modern and costly farm implements, the farmers …
The 400-year-old picturesque Dalpat Sagar Wetlands, Jagdalpur, are facing an extreme threat of water pollution, which has already impacted the aqua life, leading to death of hundreds of fishes. It could also soon become a cause for the migratory birds to abandon their winter home. If the preliminary findings of …
Maan Sai Darro and Narayan Markan — chiefs of 84 villages each in Bastar in Chhattisgarh — on Saturday travelled to the Capital to plead with the Centre to reinstate the Justice M.B. Shah Commission of Inquiry, which, set up by the Ministry of Mines in 2010 to look into …
Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh has hit out at state-run miner NMDC for allegedly “ignoring” the needs of the tribals in the state’s naxal-hit Bastar district by denying them promised employment and spending paltry money for their welfare. In a letter to steel minister Beni Prasad Verma late last month, …
Beneficial insects are one of the important economic components of forest ecosystem. Their exploitation had been historically linked with tribal economy especially in the Bastar Plateau and Northern Hills Sarguja Region, in which the whole of Chhattisgarh forms a part. Therefore, exploiting insects producing lac, silk and honey are important …
Munat informed the House that the plant would be requiring 6000 cubic meter of water per day during the construction stage and 147120 cubic meter per day for operating the plant. The minister said pipe lines would be laid from Indrawati and Sabri rivers to the plant site for ensuring …
The paper presents studies regarding the pollution of the groundwater in Jagadalpur. The water quality parameters viz pH, electrical conductivity(EC),Turbidity, Total dissolved salt (TDS), Sodium(Na), potassium(K), calcium(Ca), chloride(Cl), sulphate(SO4 -2), Carbonate(CO3), Bicarbonate (HCO3),fluoride (F- ),Total hardness(TH),dissolved oxygen(DO), iron(Fe) were analysed. The result shows that the ground water from some sampling …
Tata steel has got another breather as the Chhattisgarh government has renewed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) it had signed for setting up a mega steel plant in Bastar region for the third time. The steel major is setting up a 5.5 Million Tonne Per Annum (MTPA) Greenfield integrated steel …
