The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
The report outlines the importance of participatory land-use planning (PLUP) to reverse land degradation, conserve biodiversity, and maintain ecosystem services. PLUP identifies optimal solutions for alternative land-use, taking into account local socio-economic conditions and livelihood strategies.
High Court today asked the Government to file status report about the creation of 225 posts for closure of Watershed Development project to make functional the Wullar Conservation Management Authority. A Division Bench, comprising Chief Justice M M Kumar and Justice Dhiraj Singh Thakur, hearing a Public Interest Litigation on …
Around 9.09 lakh hectare area has been covered under afforestation in Gujarat during the last 10 years incurring an investment of Rs 2,934.74 crore. This was stated by Union minister of state for environment and forest Jayanti Natrajan while replying to a query by Rajya Sabha MP from Gujarat Dilip …
Uttar Pradesh has fared badly in utilising the financial assistance received under the Bundelkhand Package managing to spend only 43.89 per cent of the money allocated to it as Additional Central Assistance (ACA) by the Planning Commission. Of the Rs 1,695.76 crore allocated to it as ACA for seven districts …
Rupees 3 crore is being spent in this district during the current financial year on water preservation and afforestation programmes under Mid-Himalaya Watersed Development Project. This was said by Chief Parliamentary Secretary, Forests and Fisheries, Rajesh Dharmani while presiding over a watershed programme of the project at Amarpur, 40 km …
The present report was prepared in response to the General Assembly resolution 66/205, in which the Assembly requested the Secretary-General to report to it at its sixty-eighth session on the status of sustainable development in mountain regions. The report describes the status of Sustainable Mountain Development (SMD) at the national …
Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh today assured Arunachal Pradesh to allocate additional fund for covering more areas under the Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP).The minister’s assurance came when Lok Sabha member from Arunachal Takam Sanjoy called on the minister, official sources informed. “I’m aware of the problems of the …
In an effort to bring a positive change in the lives of lakhs of farmers, the state agriculture department will propagate the concept of ‘intelligent farming’. The draft agricultural development policy recently submitted to the Chief Minister lays focus on human resource development in the sector, which in the long …
The 2012 drought in Maharashtra's Marathwada region was mainly the result of lack of good water governance and poor operation of watershed development and irrigation projects. A policy that restrains sugar cane cultivation and modernises all types of water resource development works will go a long way in ensuring that …
The state government has provided Rs 2.44 crore for the Bhapraal-Ladhiyani-Sumadi-Bharadi drinking water supply schemes so that all the villages falling in this area get sufficient drinking water in hot summers. This was said by the Chief Parliamentary Secretary, Forests and Fisheries, Rajesh Dharmani, while addressing a large gathering at …
Maharashtra is facing a severe drought while there are allegations of a massive scam in the execution of irrigation projects. The white paper on irrigation projects, brought out by the state government, glosses over a number of major concerns. Until there is a fundamental shift in state policy based on …
The implementation of the Mid-Himalayan Watershed Development Project has increased the average income of families under the project area by a significant nine per cent. Stating this while interacting with a delegation of the World Bank Mission, led by Norman Piccioni, here yesterday, Forest Minister Thakur Singh Bharmouri said there …
This is the revised draft convergence guidelines between MGNREGA and Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP) of Department of Land Resources (DOLR). A Joint convergence guideline was issued by Department of Rural Development and Department of Land Resources vide letter No. J-11019/2/2008 dated 29th May, 2009. The areas of convergence and …
The annual plan of the state for 2013-14 has been finalised at Rs 4,100 crore, which is Rs 400 crore more than the last year’s plan. The plan was given its final shape during a meeting between Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh and Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, at …
Pune: The regional office of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) has disbursed Rs 7,348.39 crore for agriculture and rural development across the state. The amount — which is 22% higher than the previous year — has been allotted for the financial year 2012-13. M V Ashok, …
Farmers hopes soar seeing the success of watershed projects in arid areas. The arid tracts of Madurai district are gradually turning fertile. The district has 1 lakh hectares of cultivable land spread over 13 blocks – from Kottampatti (near Melur) to Kalligudi (near Tirumangalam). These areas were earlier witnessing lopsided …
Payments for watershed services (PWS) are schemes that use funds from water users (including governments) as an incentive for landholders to improve their land management practices. They are increasingly seen as a viable policy alternative to watershed management issues, and a means of addressing chronic problems such as declining water …
The Government of Odisha declared a State Agriculture Policy in 1996. After more than a decade, in 2008, the State Agriculture Policy was revised and its scope widened to cover many other aspects of the State’s agriculture. The State Agriculture Policy 2008 served Odisha well, and stimulated the growth of …
What does it say about the rest of India when Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi's pet project is reeling under corruption? Fake bills, inflated estimates, non-transparent contracts and sub-standard works have turned the Rs.7,466-crore Bundelkhand economic package into the latest multi-crore scam. Spread over 13 districts in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya …
GUWAHATI: Samaj Pragati Sahayog (SPS), an NGO, will start pilot projects for watershed management in Bokakhat and Dergaon of Golaghat district and Teok and Mariani in district. The go–ahead was given by Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi when the activists of SPS met him at his official residence recently, stated a …
