Birth Rate is a crude measure of fertility of a population and is a crucial determinant of population growth. It gives the number of live births per thousand population in a given region and year. The Birth Rate at all India level has declined drastically over the last five decades …
Setting a blistering pace, Tamil Nadu has halved its infant mortality rate (IMR) in the past decade while abunch of other states – Maharashtra, Punjab, Karnataka – have shown significant decreases of around 40%. The overall IMR for the country has gone down by a third. This emerges from the …
NEW DELHI, October 20: A fact that is likely to generate a wide–scale controversy amongst the environmental activists in the northeastern States, as many as 10,846.6382 hectares of forest land was diverted for non–forest purposes in the region. Such forest land was diverted for building dams, mining and other non–forest …
AIDS Initiative was launched in 2003 in six States The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded Avahan programme may have prevented over 6 lakh HIV infections in India over 10 years, according to a report in Lancet Global Health . It may be recalled that a 2011 study, by other institutes, …
Manipur Deputy Food Safety Commissioner, Directorate of Health T Brojendro has said many complaints have been filed about unsafe drinking water which are sold in the market in the state. Most of the packaged mineral water sold in Manipur was found unfit for drinking. So many companies have spurt up …
Only 15 states have so far set up their own respective State Disaster Response Force following direction from the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) earlier this year. Only 15 states have so far set up their respective state dedicated forces meant for immediate response to disaster and also involve in …
Education Minister Okendra Moirangthem's whimsical order directing government-run schools and colleges to enrol all students who seek admission has created a curious problem. Students in the state do not have any place to relieve themselves while in school. The problem is apparent in Moirang Multipurpose Higher Secondary School, which has …
Inclusive growth and providing basic amenities to people living in rural areas dominates political discourse but recent government data shows that over 67% of rural households don't have access to toilets while members of at least 22% rural households have to trudge more than half a kilometer to fetch drinking …
Recent data of drinking water and sanitation ministry shows that at least 22% rural households have to cover more than half a km to fetch drinking water and over 67% of rural households don't have access to latrines. The worst-affected states in the second category are Jharkhand where over 91% …
Aizawl: People in Mizoram to be affected by the controversial Tipaimukh Dam have written to the Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) to desist from giving forest clearance as the committee is scheduled to sit on the matter on August 13 and 14. The 1500 MW hydro project, to be built on …
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has agreed to sanction Rs 1800 crore to develop key roads in Manipur, including the 110 Km Imphal-Moreh section of National Highway 2. The Manipur component amount comes under the Regional Co-operation and Integration (RCI) project of the bank and the Indo-Myanmar connectivity has included …
The Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) of the Ministry of Environment and Forests, the government of India, has refused to give clearance for the proposed Tipaimukh Dam Project in the northeastern state of Manipur, India on grounds of saving the environment. The FAC in a recent meeting held on July 11 …
Anti-dam lobbyists have hailed the rejection of forest clearance for the proposed 1500MW Tipaimukh multi-purpose project by the forest advisory committee. A few days ago, at a meeting convened in New Delhi, the committee, which is a unit of the ministry of environment and forest, declined to accept diversion of …
Aizawl/Agartala: The Congress ruled-Mizoram government, which had earlier said it could not implement the food security scheme in the state due to fund crunch, on Thursday declared it would execute the plan. Congress-ruled Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh have also batted for the scheme but the remaining northeastern states …
More than three and half decades since it was started, the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) remains work-in-progress. Around 80 percent of the centres lack a proper kitchen in Manipur, found a survey. The survey conducted by Manipur Alliance for Child Rights (MACR) – a state alliance of NGOs supported …
The environment ministry will consider clearing a 300 sq km of forests for projects in the next meeting of its forest advisory committee (FAC), the statutory body which appraises projects that require forest land. The proposals before the FAC include the controversial Tipaimukh hydroelectric dam which alone will require submergence …
Even as floods play havoc in Uttarakhand, several states have opposed the provisions of a 38-year-old Model Flood Bill aimed at minimising losses to life and property in the natural calamity. The Bill, prepared by the Central Water Commission in 1975, will empower authorities to remove dwellings from flood-prone areas. …
Anti–dam protestors from all over the North Eastern state converged at Mairaing, West Khasi Hills to led thier support to the the Indigenous Biodiversity and Social Welfare Organisation (IBSWO) campaign against the Assam Government intention to construct a dam on River Khri (called Dron River in Assam) in Meghalaya. The …
The Indian government has formed a special committee for forest department’s clearance for construction of the controversial Tipaimukh dam in the northeast state of Monipur close to Bangladesh border, BBC Bangla radio reported yesterday. India has come up with this new move although the joint committee formed to ascertain the …
A controversial hydroelectric project in the northeast may run into rough weather with the Environment Ministry hesitant to grant green clearance to the project which involves cutting 78 lakh trees and 27,000 bamboo columns. The construction of the proposed 1500 MW Tipaimukh Multipurpose Hydroelectric Project (HEP) downstream of the confluence …
A controversial hydroelectric project in the northeast may run into rough weather with the environment ministry hesitant to grant green clearance to the project which involves cutting 78 lakh trees and 27,000 bamboo columns. The construction of the proposed 1500 MW Tipaimukh Multipurpose Hydroelectric Project (HEP) downstream of the confluence …
