Gujarat

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding remedial actions to be taken for abatement of pollution of river Bhadar near Ahmedabad, Gujarat, 09/05/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Ramdevbhai Samatbhai Sanjva Vs State of Gujarat & Others dated 09/05/2025. The matter related to remedial actions to be taken for abatement of pollution of river Bhadar near Ahmedabad. Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) has filed the response affidavit, March …

The nation owns the water not an individual

Keshubhai Patel Chief minister, Gujarat On overflowing check dams: We needed a permanent solution that not only drought-proofs the state but also provides livelihoods. The effort is to trap every drop of rainwater through check dams. The overflowing dams are a lesson for people to take up more water conservation. …

Time Locked

This is not the only hurdle in making water conservation a long sustained movement. To make it a sustainable social movement and to reap its dividend in the form of poverty eradication, the government needs to put in prolonged efforts. Most of India's poverty eradication programmes have failed because they …

Accounting water

Investment in water is an insurance against poverty and drought. Down To Earth reporters visited the eight villages below during the droughts of 2000 and 2001. These villages have several years of experience in water conservation. The inference: the more the years of water conservation, the more the capacity to …

Steeplechase

Kalakhoont village's spin out of the poverty cycle began on a rainy day in June this year. Four days of rain filled up to the brim the long-forgotten tank in this nondescript village of Jhabua district in Madhya Pradesh ( mp ). Now almost the entire village is encircled by …

Percolation drive

To fight drought, the Madhya Pradesh government embarked on a water conservation drive in February this year with its Pani Roko Abhiyan (Stop Water Campaign). The state administration geared up to reach all its 52,000 villages. It was inspired by an earlier effort of the state to conserve water through …

The road to ecological and economic prosperity

The experience of the last 22 years, starting from Ralegan Siddhi and Sukhomajri, shows that regeneration of a highly degraded village, ecologically and economically, takes more than 10 years. The chart below is a summary of the ecological regeneration-economic development process in six villages spanning over 16 years. The chart, …

Making waves

Never has a monsoon entered India with so much people-government efforts to arrest its downpour. An extensive array of water harvesting structures built after three drought spells in 11 states

A system in shambles

Over 200 rules and regulations, and a large bureaucracy have failed to protect the state of India’s environment. Just one look at the collapsing system of governance in the country is ample proof of this.l Andhra Pradesh pollution control board (pcb) has just one technical personnel to monitor every 100 …

The road ahead

In late 1970s and early 1980s, India, like many other developing countries,

Jawan Lal Rebari

Initially involved in adult education and health activities, Jawan Lal took it as a challenge to transform degraded lands to productive assets in Barwa village for about 110 families. Jawan Lal says, "Even we realised the importance of water and afforestation early, but people were not ready to join and …

Manukhbhai Suvagia

Concerned over the water level in the region of Suarashtra which had receeded from 15 metres in 1990 to 120-210 metres in 1998, Mansukh Bhai Suvagia, a 37-year-old government servant decided to initiate steps to tackle the problem. With the help of villagers, he launched a Lok Fund scheme and …

Manna Singh

Manna Singh, a farmer by profession is the chairman of Sitapur project in Madhya Pradesh. Couple of years back, 46-year-old Singh was sent as a district representative to Anna Hazare for getting trained. In the year 1996, Union ministry of rural development supported the Sitapur project with a financial aid …

Laxmi Narayan Joshi

Laxmi Narayan joshi, watershed committee chairman of Saipur village, has been a source of inspiration to the villagers. The watershed work started in 1998-99. Medbandi, a stone embankment built on the lower side of the agriculture field on a hill slope to conserve soil and moisture and help create a …

Ram Karan Bhadana

Ram Karan Bhadana, a Gujjar is not involved in sheep raring as others, but is committed towards the development of the village. He is a well-known activist for development works in the village with a population of 2,000-2,500. He was actively involved in creating awareness, giving importance to tree and …

R Devendra

Sixty-year-old Devendra is the president of the Kedar Village Tank Farmers Society in Tamil Nadu. The society was formed in 1989 and there are around 217 members working with it from 13 different communities. The society operates and irrigates an area of approximately 119 hectares. The Centre for Water Resources, …

Water warriors

A lot has been written on India's vast and ancient experience in rainwater harvesting. But no concrete effort has been made to use these traditional innovations. There is no village in India which cannot meet its drinking water needs if it adopts the kundi technology developed by the people of …

Toxic destruction

following the bursting of an effluent pipeline running through a marine national park in Jamnagar, Gujarat, more than 7,000 mangrove trees and rare marine plants and animals were destroyed. The marine park is said to be Asia's best. The pipeline, which runs from a factory of Tata Chemicals Limited at …

Cyclones in India

The term cyclone includes all tropical storms. They start as swirls of cloud and rain that eventually intensify into storms.The Indian sub-continent is the worst affected part in the world. Although India accounts for only six per cent of the cyclones worldwide, it records the maximum damage. Past 122 years' …

Cyclones, doubts and monsoon

the threat of another super cyclone hitting the Gujarat coast remained just that

More shocks

for Gujarat's earthquake victims the future is parched. Amid the ruins of the state government's tall claims of putting in place a rehabilitation package, the state government has totally forgotten about the water storage facilities badly damaged by the earthquake. The result: Saurashtra and Kachhch will face a storage of …

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