Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
EDUCATION GUARANTEE SCHEME It was launched on January 1, 1997, under the Rajiv Gandhi Prathmik Shiksha Mission. Any village in the state that does not have a primary school within a radius of I km is guaranteed a school within 90 days of applying. The criteria is that there should …
The media has hailed Digvijay Singh's victory but it is spreading another myth because it is ignorant about rural problems: that Digvijay Singh strengthened the Panchayatl Rai system. On the contrary, in many cases, Singh strengthened the people directly over and above the elected sarpanches. This increased the accountability of …
You hold three things responsible for your election victory: price rise, poor performance of the BJP government at the Centre, and devolution of power to the people in MP. How much did the third factor contribute? Though it is difficult to assess, it definitely contributed in a very substantial way. …
LIKE the blades of grass which grew silently to clothe the brown hills of Jhabua, the hold of the Congress party strengthened unnoticed in the state of Madhya Pradesh (MP). Even as the grass imparted strength to the denuded slopes, so did the Congress grow in strength. The party in …
THE Central Zoo Authority of India has asked the officials of the Madhav National Park at Shivpuri in Madhya Pradesh to wind up their "tiger safari". The park is home to eight tigers, all offspring of tigress Tara and tiger Petu. The pair was brought to the park from Bhopal …
Involvement of women is on your priority list. Why? The women in the villages are involved in three basic things - water, fuel and fodder. Along with agriculture, one of the basic goals of watershed development programmes is to help in improving the life of women in villages. It is …
IT is time to rewrite the history of life on Earth. A Calcutta-based geologist, Pradip Bose, has found convincing evidence from a site close to Churhat, Madhya Pradesh: The first multi-celled animals evolved about 1.1 billion years ago. This finding will stretch back the chronology of animal life by about …
The Supreme Court has directed the Madhya Pradesh High Court to consider whether the government's decision allowing certain collieries to charge 10 per cent premium on coal price violated the right to equality of a consumer guaranteed under Article 14 of the Constitution. Allowing an appeal by Gujarat Ambuja Cements …
Macroseismic and aftershock studies reveal a major seismic fault in Madhya Pradesh THE analysis of last year's Jabalpur earthquake has shown a "deep-rooted" seismogenic fault" located within the Narmada south fault zone, says J R Katyal, deputy director-general of the Geological Survey of India (GSI). The fault has been traced …
ASIATIC lions are found at only one place in the world - the Gir National Park, Gujarat. Now the Union ministry of environment and forests is planning a second home for them at an estimated cost of about Rs 65 crore in Madhya Pradesh. The project will be spread over …
THE goal of universal education eludes India even though there is now a primary school in practically every village. The rate of dropouts continues to be over 50 per cent. The greatest casualty in the failure of our education system has been the girl child - whether in terms of …
The success story of education in Arunachal Pradesh has been narrated by Purer Haimendorf. The socio-economic and political strength which Arunachal tribes enjoy has no doubt been the rock on which the edifice was founded and on which it subsequently grew. The strategy they adopted was based on the residential …
Twenty women of the Adivasi Shakti Sangathan went on a hunger strike in Madhya Pradesh (MP) protesting the atmosphere of terror created by the local administration against its activists and supporters. The strike, which started on June 2, ended eight days later, with the National Human Rights Commission's (NHRC's) assurance …
The sal forests of Madhya Pradesh are once again facing problems. With the monsoons, there is a renewed onslaught of the sal borer beetle, Hoplocerambix spinicornis, which created havoc in 1997 by infecting more than 31 lakh sal trees worth Rs 1,200 crore. The sal borer epidemic in Madhya Pradesh …
IRS-LISS-II data along with other data sets have been utilized to extract information on the hydrogeomorphic features of a hard rock terrain in the Sironj area of Vidisha district of Madhya Pradesh, India. The study exhibits reservoir induced artificial groundwater recharge downstream of surface water reservoirs. IRS-LISS-II data have been …
"if we continue to plough our fields with tractors and keep on using chemical fertilisers, the natural productivity of the soil will be killed,' says Raju Titus, a 53-year-old farmer from Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh, who has been practising natural farming for the last 12 years. He sees the Green Revolution …
ratlam is a district headquarters in Madhya Pradesh. Lack of environmental awareness and improper management of local industries has turned the place into one of the 22 most polluted towns in India. The growing pollution and the paucity of drinking water led Hari Ram Patidar, a citizen of Ratlam, to …
republic Day, January 26, 1998. Charan Das Mahant, home minister of Madhya Pradesh ( mp ), has just finished hoisting the national flag in the town of Raigarh. A few hours later, Satyabhama, 45, a tribal woman from the nearby village of Boda Tikra who has been on a hunger …
long before the 83rd Constitutional Amendment Act-1997, making primary education a fundamental right, was tabled in the Indian Parliament, the state of Madhya Pradesh had embarked on an innovative scheme called Education Guarantee Scheme ( egs ) in January 1997. This guarantees education to citizens on demand, and also aims …
the Bastar forest scam in Madhya Pradesh (mp) , involving forest encroachment and felling of trees with officials' tacit support, has taken a new turn with the arrest of a social activist who was closely associated with the investigations. The activist, Ratneshwarnath , was part of the team that prepared …
