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 …
Rajasthan presents evidence for the existence of one of the most advanced works of ancient mining and accompanied deforestation globally. Mining continues to be an important economic activity in Rajasthan. However, economic benefits of mineral extraction also accompany environmental, economic and social costs. Mine waste dumps and mined out areas …
Four water and sediment samples were drawn from Keoladeo National Park Lake, Bharatpur to monitor pesticide residues. Estimation was done by GC-ECD using multiresidue method for organochlorine and synthetic pyrethroid insecticides.
Jobs are what all Indians want. Governments know this. But they do not know how to create jobs. The problem is that the much-touted mantra of economic growth does not generate jobs. In fact, the reverse is quite true: India suffers from the growth-without-jobs syndrome. Therefore in the last decade …
There is one strong view in the job-business: more growth will lead to more jobs. We have to invest in only economic growth and not in employment creation programmes and other sectors. This is what the NDA-created Ahluwalia Task Force had maintained then. It would not be surprising if Ahluwalia, …
STATUS: Generates 10 million jobs currently POTENTIAL: Can generate 8.6 million additional jobs if bamboo plantations are undertaken and high value artisanal and other products marketed HURDLE: Remains a monopoly of forest departments. Has to be given agriculture status to cultivate, harvest and sell Sandni, a village in Rajasthan's Chittorgarh …
STATUS: Employs 8 million people currently POTENTIAL: Even the existing capacity can absorb another 3 million people HURDLES: Lack of productive silkworms. Poor technology. No access to forests, limits the production of wild silk The shimmer of silk captivates even the most languid eye. But first, the cocoon of archival …
What is clear is that finding jobs in India demands a change in the way we do business. Let us be clear, the formal industrial sector has never provided employment in the country. With greater mechanisation in the years to come, its contribution towards generating employment is bound to decline …
STATUS: Generates 2.5 million jobs in Orissa alone POTENTIAL: High capacity for employment because India has several sal forests. Can generate another 2.5 million jobs in Orissa alone HURDLE: Forest laws restrict plucking of leaves For a mere Rs 300, 27-year-old Somnath Mohanta sells a cycle-load of sal (Shorea robusta) …
If we are doomed to witness water wars in the coming years, as many experts predict, they would perhaps begin thus. Four farmers were killed and about 30 were injured in police firing in Rawla and Ghadsana towns of Rajasthan's Sriganganagar district on October 27, 2004. They were protesting an …
The Rawla-Ghadsana region, which was a desert till 1970s, became a cotton belt after benefiting from the Indira Gandhi Nahar Project (IGNP). Construction of IGNP commenced in 1958 and the government started allotting land to farmers in early 1970s. "Because of the IGNP, the whole area with mainly three types …
It is often said that the next war in the world will be fought over water. I do not know if this prophecy will come true. But I do know that skirmishes and even full-fledged battles over water are here to stay in India. And I also know that these …
A gang of boisterous children entering people's homes at will, peering into their water tanks and emblazoning their walls with slogans, would seem intrusive to most
A women development programme is changing the face of Rajasthan's countryside Something unique is being done in the countryside of Rajasthan, in the self-help groups (shgs) formed in the villages. Following keen interest shown in the matter by chief minister Vasundhera Raje, poor women who live in abject poverty in …
The Sahariyas, a tribal community inhabiting Baran district of Rajasthan, are fighting to stave off hunger and death; 15 of them, mostly malnourished children, have died since July without medical care. The one-time hunter-gatherers demand work even as politicians debate whether the deaths were due to hunger or disease. `WELCOME …
Cut one: 1989-90: a factory manufacturing h-acid freely dumps iron-sludge, which contaminates the groundwater of Rajasthan’s Bichchri village. Forced to depend entirely on water tankers, villagers begin, and finally win, a prolonged legal battle to get the factory shut down. Cut two: 2004. Pollutants from an oxalic acid plant renders …
You live in Bhutan? Or Assam? No, I don't. Sorry, but you were talking of that area. I am a journalist; occasionally travel there. I have also travelled all over that region. Bhutan. Deep into Assam, Siliguri. Really? I used to carry explosives to the region. Explosives! I work for …
Komal Kothari 1929-2004 Renowned folk imagist Komal Kothari passed away in Jodhpur on April 20 after a prolonged bout with cancer. He was 75. Komalda, as everyone fondly called him, will be remembered for his extensive work on Rajasthan's folk music. Mention the three tribes of folk musicians, Langas, Manganiars …
They are a force to reckon with, the Meo-Muslim women of Chandoli village in Alwar district of Rajasthan. Despite using the same ingredients for developing self-help groups (shg), the village-based shg and its government-run counterpart produced totally contrary results. The former, inspired by non-governmental organisation (ngo) Ibtada, did good work …
