Judgment of the Supreme Court in the matter of In Re: Zudpi Jungle Lands. A batch of applications involved a peculiar issue concerning the situation prevailing in the six districts of eastern Vidarbha region namely Nagpur, Wardha, Bhandara, Gondia, Chandrapur and Gadchiroli. The issue pertains to the status of the …
A tiny barrage, with a capacity to store barely 0.13 tmc water to quench the thirst of Bagepalli and Gudibande taluks of Kolar district, in Karnataka, has raised the hackles of Andhra Pradesh. The construction of the barrage across the Chitravathi in Paragodu village of the district, which began on …
The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board is gearing up to tackle the water crisis that may arise in the City because of lack of rain. The BWSSB's action plan will focus on conserving water. The first step
The Union power ministry's ambitious plan to add 50,000 megawatts of hydel power by the end of Twelfth Plan is welcome but it needs to be supported by the will to execute the plan in time. The most important problem associated with the execution of hydel power projects is time …
Where on the one hand the residents of the Jhabua town, Madhya Pradesh are bearing the brunt of severe water crisis, but the water being supplied to reduce their woes has rather added misery as they are supplied with contaminated water posing serious threat of water borne diseases.
Distribution of water using siphon technique and use of fountains was practiced nearly four centuries back, archaeological excavations have revealed. Archaeologists of Madhya Pradesh State Archaeology and Museum department recently unearthed massive tanks of sandstone with embedded pipes and fountains of terracotta and copper during excavations in Gond Mahal.
A forest in Bharatpokhari VDC of Kaski (Napal) that had nearly disappeared due to indiscriminate felling of trees has been revived back after it was converted into a community forest. The locals involved in the community forest have opened the door to changes through the medium of sustainable protection of …
Kerala's Leader of Opposition V S Achuthanandan demanded the immediate takeover of 20 private sandalwood factories that were allegedly buying raw material from illegal loggers. The veteran Marxist leader alleged there was a nexus between some forest officials and the loggers, who were sneaking sandalwood out of government-owned plantations.
Weaving his themes around nature, science, environment and forestry, Mr O.P. Sharma, has perhaps become the first Indian Forest Service(IFS) officer to win the Sahitya Akademy Award for his book in Dogri "Trip Trip Chete", a collection of travelogues and memoirs.
The Japanese Bank of International Corporation would disburse Rs 750 crore this year for the implementation of the Tamil Nadu Afforestation Project, said J C Khala, Principal Chief Conservator of forest. This is in addition to the Rs 500 crore announced earlier.
Andhra Pradesh Information and Public Relations Minister S Chandrashekhar Reddy has accused Karnataka of violating all inter-state river water agreements by constructing projects in an "undemocratic" manner, causing anxiety to farmers of Ananthapur, Cuddapah and Nellore districts.
Though forest conservation efforts through community participation has marked a significant success in Nepal, the initiatives were lacking good governance and did not contribute to exalt the situation of women; other marginalized people and socially backward classes. This was pointed out by conservationists; policy makers and journalists.
Under the Joint Forest Management (JFM) programme in south-western West Bengal, regenerating deciduous forests are being managed for the extraction of numerous plant products, both for commercial benefits and subsistence-level use, on a large scale. However, there has been little serious evaluation of the long-term biological sustainability of forest produce …
The involvement of local communities in protecting and conserving forests has become a priority concern with aid agencies, governmental departments, NGO's and others concerned with biodiversity conservation, to the extent that participatory forest conservation has become a buzzword in conservation circles. This article documents the fourteen-year process of organising a …
The National Forest Policy (NFP) of 1988 marked a watershed in the way forests were perceived by the State Forest Departments. Recognising the serious limitations of the exclusivist approach towards forest conservation that had been followed since independence, the NFP paved the way for bringing in more participatory means of …
There is an increasing interest in community-based forest management as a potential approch for improving forest governance. India is among the few countries in the world where such an approach - called Joint Forest Management (JFM)-has not only been successfully introduced but also achieved large-scale implementation, covering 18% of all …
A number of drinking water schemes in the State undertaken by the Assam Urban Water Supply and Sewage Board have not seen the light of the day. Though at least 32 such schemes for supplying water to various towns was initiated by the Board during 1989-94, only four of these …
At a time when the government and other NGOs are adopting several measures for the preservation of forest resources and the Supreme Court has imposed ban on felling of trees, wanton destruction of trees in the entire South Kamrup area in Assam has been continuing unabated for the last several …
The government has taken Taka 2 crore budget for saplings of 4 crore plants in Bangladesh during National Tree Plantation Movement. Besides the private initiators will also take programme to plant 3 crore trees this period. Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia is scheduled to launch the National Tree Plantation Movement …
In a bid to protect the trees in the forests of Canacona taluka, Goa, the pen has proved to be mightier than the axe. There is a kind of hush in the forest regions of Canacona, as vandals and plunders of the forest have taken a backseat of so it …
the diagnosis of tuberculosis is likely to be faster and more reliable in the future with researchers from the uk-based University of Oxford developing a new diagnostic kit called elispot. A study carried out to compare the results of elispot with that of the conventional skin-prick test shows that the …
