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 …
In tune with the draft National Water Policy, 2012, Government of Puducherry has decided to formulate a State Water Policy with an operational action plan in order to achieve the desired objectives. This water policy is applicable to all the water resources in the Union Territory. A Water Resources Control …
Bangladesh ministries, including the ministries of agriculture, environment and forest, water, health, rural development, food and disaster management, children and women affairs, relevant departments and NGOs have been implementing a number of local level adaptation (LLA) projects with their limited resources and capacity in response to the National Adaptation Programme …
Subsidy on diesel, seeds to be hiked to help farmers The Central government on Tuesday approved Rs 1,931 crore financial package to five drought-affected states, including Rs 224 crore for Karnataka. The package will be used primarily to ensure supply of drinking water in rain deficient states and improve watershed …
Environmental organisations have come out against the reported move to revive a proposal to set up a mineral water-bottling plant in the buffer zone of the Silent Valley National Park. When the proposal was made two years ago, the State government and the district administration had objected to it, with …
MUMBAI: In some welcome relief to drought-hit areas in the state, good rains in parts of the state has led to rise in water levels in the state. A 2 per cent increase in the overall quantity of water available in dams was recorded in the past week, a statement …
Mumbai: It’s a flood of money, not water, that’s flowing into Maharashtra’s dam projects. TOI’s continuing investigation into the criminal escalation of costs and infinite delays in water projects has thrown up another shocker: the Gosikhurd irrigation project in Bhandara district near Nagpur, which was okayed at a cost of …
River water to meet drinking water needs of Chikkaballapur, Tumkur The State government on Friday finally gave administrative approval for the Yettinahole project that proposes to draw water from the Yettinahole River in Sakaleshpur to meet the drinking water demands of Chikkaballapur and Tumkur districts and some parts of Bangalore …
AMRAVATI: The state government is diverting scarce water resources in the drought-prone Vidarbha region to private thermal power plants. However, a state energy department official dismissed figures of water that is deprived to farmers as "exaggerated". The six districts in Vidarbha recorded 8,273 farmers' suicides in the past decade. In …
Daily milk production in the state is seeing a surplus by 28 lakh litre, with drastic rise in contributions from the drought-hit talukas like Jat and Mann leading to a massive production of milk powder. Of the 1.13 crore lakh litres of milk being produced a day, 28 lakh litre …
Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said decision would be taken soon on drought-related assistance demanded by Maharashtra. "A central team visited Maharashtra after the state sought aid and submitted its report. The high-powered committee comprising Union ministers Pranab Mukherjee, P Chidambaram, myself and Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek …
Dispur has chalked out 10 models of rainwater harvesting under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme for drought-prone areas of the state, where groundwater level has been falling over the years. The 10 models include micro-rainwater harvesting programme for the benefit of people living below poverty line, who, …
The government has ruled out auction of water to private bodies but may consider publicprivate partnership (PPP) in wastewater treatment, Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said. “There are no plans to auction water to private bodies or to include them in any regulatory framework,” said Bansal. He was speaking …
RAJSHAHI: Some newly developed drought- tolerant and high-yielding wheat varieties, especially BARI Gom- 26, has created high hope among farmers of the drought-prone Barind tract. With the breakthrough, farmers have started using the varieties instead of the outdated ones and getting additional yield. Talking to BSS in Rajshahi on Saturday …
BANKURA, 7 SEPT: The state Public Health Engineering department today entered into an agreement of sharing 50 per cent of river water with a private steel unit in drought-prone Bankura. The agreement was signed between the PHE and a private secondary steel unit in the presence of state PHE minister, …
Months ago, when a bunch of “foreigners” came to meet Nileema Mishra, she considered it as just another visit by people who wanted to see her work. But later, when the group closely started vetting her work at the Bhagini Nivedita Gramin Vigyan Niketan (BNGVN), an organisation she started in …
Farmers’ suicides in Bundelkhand are a result of several years of neglect of the agricultural sector and industrial backwardness. Neither the Uttar Pradesh nor the Madhya Pradesh government has made efforts to address the basic issues of ecological degradation, agricultural modernisation and rural indebtedness. The demand for a separate state …
As part of the efforts for extension of irrigation facilities, the State Government has chalked out a plan for construction of 67 new reservoirs under a multi-purpose project for drought-affected areas in the State. This will bring an additional 1,000 hectare under irrigation apart from developing other facilities. Estimated to …
Accepting the logics and rational of the state the Central Planning Commission has approved the annual plan of Rs 47000 crore for the 2011-12 on Monday in Delhi. The state government has also assured the Planning Commission to increase its own resources during the same period. Despite getting the desired …
PUNE: Activist Anna Hazare catapulted into national stardom following his relentless pursuit of the Lokpal Bill, but the unassuming dhoti-clad social worker has been a star in his state, and village, for a long time now. Fifty-year-old Maruti Auti recalls the days when villagers in Ahmednagar's Ralegan Siddhi, 80 km …
For more than six months a year, vast swathes of land in the rain-dependent rice belts of Jharkhand remained barren, forcing farmers to migrate to other cities in search of livelihoods. The trend has reversed at least in one place, in the Maoist-infested Bishunpur block in Gumla district
