Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Kamal Tiwari Vs Union of India & Others dated 27/05/2025. The Principal Chief Conservator of Forest and Chief Wildlife Warden, Rajasthan stated that a high level meeting to review the progress on the demarcation of Nahargarh …
The Punjab government on October 27, 2005, agreed to give the full share of 8.6 million acre feet (maf) water from the Ravi-Beas river system to Rajasthan. Experts believe this could prevent acute water wars in the desert state. Earlier, Punjab agreed to release only 8 maf water to Rajasthan, …
Pali is a textile town deep in water-scarce Rajasthan. It is well known for the cloth it produces. But it is even better known for the filth it also produces, best seen in the colours in its mostly dry river, the Bandi. Pali's pollution, and the protest of residents and …
A grand mahapanchayat (mega assembly) was held on July 24, 2005, in Rajasthan's Sriganganagar district by thousands of farmers demanding more water for irrigation. The protestors were opposing the alleged mismanagement in water distribution in the Phase I area of the Indira Gandhi Canal Project. Earlier, the issue had led …
On August 5, 2005, the Tiger Task Force presented its report Joining the Dots to the prime minister. After a presentation by the task force’s chairperson, and a subsequent discussion, the prime minister gave his assent to all seven recommendations the task force wanted immediate action on (see box: Get …
Sariska’s ‘missing’ tigers have started off a flurry of activity and debate. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh set up a Tiger Task Force; Rajasthan’s chief wildlife warden was suspended, and the Ministry of Environment and Forests (moef) has begun contemplating a Wildlife Crime Bureau. Justifiably, conservationists are up in arms; Sariska …
In Rajasthan state particularly, textile mills represent an important economic sector. Pali district in Rajasthan has got largest number of textile industries in the State i.e.989 units, mostly engaged in cotton and synthetic textile printing and dyeing. These industries liberate a variety of chemicals, dyes, acids and alkalis besides other …
Since early this year, the news on tigers vanishing from Sariska and Ranthambore, India's flagship conservation areas in Rajasthan, has dominated the media and shocked the Indian public. But few are aware of the parallel decline, rather the near-death, of India's pastoral cultures, even though it concerns the livelihoods of …
A Rojgar Adhikar Yatra (a journey for employment rights), through some of the 150 districts where the National Food for Work Programme (nfwp) is underway, has found that rampant corruption afflicts the programme. The findings are significant because the nfwp is touted as the forerunner to a comprehensive employment guarantee …
a major mining scandal in Rajasthan's Jodhpur and Jaisalmer districts has been exposed in the past few months. Several cases have come to light of upper caste influential people fraudulently getting quarry licenses issued or renewed in the names of individuals belonging to the scheduled castes (scs), scheduled tribes (sts) …
five more farmers have been killed in police firing while protesting against water scarcity. Over 20 were injured, many seriously, on June 13, 2005 at Sohela village in Tonk district, when about 3,000 villagers blocked national highway 12, which links Jaipur to Kota. They were demanding water from Bisalpur dam, …
it sounds like a utopian dream. Mineworkers owning the mine in which they toil, not by fluke but by Rajasthan government policy: provisions under the Rajasthan Minor Mineral Concession Rule, 1986 state that licenses for quarrying minor minerals be given on priority to "manual workers belonging to scheduled castes (sc)/ …
Delhi has been waiting. For its neighbour, Uttar Pradesh (up), to release water to its swank Sonia Vihar water treatment plant. The prime minister himself intervenes in the matter. He persuades up to release water. Only to be rebuffed by up political leaders, who say their farmers and cities need …
in response to Coca-Cola and PepsiCo's clarification applications, on June 1, 2005, the Rajasthan High Court (hc) issued final directions on the exact declaration regarding pesticide content to be made on the packaging of soft drinks by manufacturers. "...we require the applicants to declare on soft drink bottles, package or …
What began as just a demand for water boiled over into an unexpected tragedy when police opened fire to disperse a mob that had reportedly turned violent. A group of farmers had gathered in Soyla village of Tonk district in Rajasthan last week to demand that water be released from …
theSupreme Court (sc), on May 10, 2005, stayed the Rajasthan High Court's (hc's) May 2, 2005 order, which directed the Punjab government to hand over the maintenance of three barrages (Ropar, Harike and Ferozepur) of the Bhakra and Beas projects to the Bhakra Beas Management Board (bbmb), a Union government …
india'sTiger Task Force (ttf), constituted recently to review the management of the country's tiger reserves, concluded its first round of consultations with experts on May 19, 2005 in New Delhi. After the two-day meet, ttf chairperson Sunita Narain observed: "Clamming up on traditional rights of the people to collect forest …
on april15, people living near Roopsagar lake in Udaipur were shocked to see bulldozers ripping apart its dry bed. "When I asked the contractor, I was told a 80-feet (about 24 metres) wide road was to be carved out in the peta (bed) of the lake,' says Ramlal Vaishnav, ex-councillor …
