Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
New Delhi: The Supreme Court order of October 20, 2002, had banned mining in the Aravali hills and had observed that the whole hill system came under the category of
IF you have been stuck in those endless traffic jams in Gurgaon you may have wondered what the problem is. Three young men, sachin, Sumit and Satish have the answer: Gurgaon has no public transportation plan. The three have filed right to information (RTI) applications wanting to now what the …
Judgement of the Punjab-Haryana High Court in the matter of Eros City Developers Private Ltd. vs State Of Haryana And Others dated 21/01/2008 regarding acquiring the land belonging to the petitioner (Eros City Developers Private Ltd.) in village Lakarpur, Tehsil and District Faridabad, for a public purpose, namely, for the …
This paper measures the relative performance of twenty depots of Haryana State Road Transport (HSRT) for the year 2006-07 using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). This study identifies the relatively efficient and inefficient depots, sets benchmarks for the relative inefficient depots and suggests alternative actions that would make inefficient depots improve …
the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (moef) has attracted serious criticism after granting clearances for two mining projects in Faridabad in July 2006. The Supreme Court of India has directed the ministry to explain its criteria for granting the clearances. A ministry official, however, says the court's order has …
the second week of November saw south and central Delhi reeling under a severe water crisis because of high levels of ammonia in the Yamuna at the city's water intake point. It led to a reduction in water supply from two of its water treatment plants
DTE tracks the developments in Sukhomajri which became a model of self-reliant development in the 1980s due to successful management of ecological wealth by HRMS. But the situation has changed now. The forest department has hijacked the forest created by the villagers, while control of water is going into private …
Bunga took the sukhomajri story forward The first village to follow Sukhomajri's development model was Bunga, just 30 km away in Haryana's Panchkula district (see timeline: Divergent trajectories). Its success is on a surer footing for now, because it is not dependent on the forest department, but it still needs …
Government must facilitate, not control The experiences of Sukhomajri and Bunga have a lesson: given the right conditions, external and internal, villages can be self-sustaining. But their inherent problems are also important lessons. Fixing these is the key to the success of the country's 2,000-odd rural development programmes. The National …
once considered a sign of poor neighborhoods, clotheslines are back in vogue in the us. In India, however, resident associations in Gurgaon, Haryana, are discouraging use of clotheslines. Despite being a common practice until the 1980s in the us, hanging clothes outside gradually came to be considered as a
Credit is one of the important inputs for rural development. The results will largely depend on the effective use of credit, and linkages developed with other requirements for the enterprise. The study on rural credit from various agencies such as commercial banks, regional rural banks, cooperative banks and District Rural …
india suffers considerable losses due to crop damage every year. assocham has pegged this loss at Rs 140,000 crore for 2006-07. Unfortunately, there is no way to ascertain whether this or similar statistics are reliable. But the government might just have come up with a monitoring mechanism. The only method …
The mystery fever hit Uttar Pradesh 20 years ago. It was linked to viruses like Nipah, Chandipura, West Nile and JE. The JE virus was the most accepted causal agent even though the authorities failed to find the virus in the samples collected. In Saharanpur, out of 99 cases of …
It has been realized that promotion of entrepreneurship among women can play a major role in economic development and poverty reduction in rural areas. With this background in mind, this study was formulated and assigned to AER Centres. The basic objective of the study has been to understand viability of …
March 18, 2005: Punjab Pollution Control Board (ppcb) says no residential colony can come up within 500m of the boundary of a designated industrial area May 6, 2005: Distance reduced to 100m. No-objection certificates to allow residential complexes given to promoters January 17, 2006: 100-m boundary proposal is done away …
Residents of Panihari village are a happy lot. They are celebra-ting freedom from floods for the first time in living memory. Agricultural wages have increased across the district in the past one year. They say their lives have improved because of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (nrega). Flood control …
it's official. The Reliance special economic zone (sez) project in Haryana is on. On June 5, the Board of Approval of sezs, a government body, gave its nod to the sez, which is to come up in 565 hectares (ha) in Gurgaon and Jhajjar districts of Haryana. Land was acquired …
