Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
The number has come down by over 12% while the number of farm labourers in the state has soared The number of farmers in Chhattisgarh has come down by more than 12 per cent while the number of farm labourers in the state has soared during the period. The final …
GUWAHATI: To determine land use pattern in Assam, a three–member Cabinet sub committee headed by State Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Prithibi Majhi has been constituted by the State government. Sources said that the Cabinet sub committee has been constituted to recommend a land use perspective and also to suggest …
The move will provide big relief to farmers, especially in Haryana and Punjab Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on Tuesday allayed apprehensions over the imposition of wealth tax on agricultural land within urban area limits to provide a big relief to farmers, especially in Haryana and Punjab, relaxed the tax benefit-related …
Land use affects the distribution of benthic macroinvertebrate fauna along the river continuum and are hence useful indicators of this stress (Richards et al. 1993; Roth et al. 1996; Hershey & Lamberti 1998; Allan 2004). This knowledge pertains to temperate streams. Such an impact has been scarcely investigated in tropical …
The Uttarakhand Government would request the Centre to review the notification on eco-sensitive zone between Gomukh and Uttarkashi as its implementation would adversely affect all development activity and economic progress of the region. Briefing newspersons after a high-level meeting at the Secretariat here on Thursday, Chief Secretary Alok Kumar Jain …
The Andhra Pradesh Government finally decided to take back 10,760 acres of its land allotted to Brahmani Industries Limited (BIL) of former Karnataka Tourism Minister Gali Janardhan Reddy, now in jail in connection with Obulapuram Mining Company case. Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy went through all the files and …
The panel, headed by Dr Bhumidhar Barman, will submit recommendations to the govt within four months Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has constituted a three-member committee to frame a comprehensive New Land Policy for the entire state. The committee, headed by adviser to chief minister, agriculture, Dr Bhumidhar Barman, would …
Draft of shale gas policy has been sent for inter-ministerial consultation-to ministry of finance, environment, law & planning commission As the government is trying to finalise a shale gas policy, it wants to build in environmental safeguards into the overall framework. The ministry of petroleum and natural gas is engaged …
India has aggressive renewable energy targets and industry energy efficiency policies. But it faces significant infrastructure challenges which may derail otherwise good policy. This is mentioned in a report on the country’s national climate policy by Climate Policy Initiative, a US-based global policy effectiveness analysis and advisory organisation. The report …
510 Hectare Acquired By State Govt For Township Lucknow: Just when the Centre gears up to clear the way for the long-pending land acquisition bill, a group of farmers from five villages near Agra havestarted a protest march to Lucknow seeking return of their land acquired by the state government …
The Delhi Development Authority’s public notice announcing its intention to excise 61.59 acres from the Zone O (River Zone) and include it in Zone D has drawn sharp criticism from environmentalists and river conservationists. Reacting to the DDA’s public notice that appeared on Wednesday and proposes to change land use …
CAG has termed the land allotment to Tata Power within the CDA area 'irregular and unauthorized' Odisha has drawn flak from the Comptroller & Auditor General of India (CAG) yet again over irregular allotment of land. This time, unauthorised grant of administrative nod for acquisition of private as well as …
The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) is looking to redefine "Zone O", under which falls the Yamuna riverbed, so that colonies like Sonia Vihar and Jaitpur, which have come up on the floodplains, can be excluded from the zone and regularised. This exercise has been undertaken after directions from L-G's office. …
The Delhi Government in a Cabinet meeting today decided to approach the Union Government for getting land free of charge for public projects. “The Cabinet took note of the difficulties being faced by the city government in securing land from the DDA for discharging its legitimate duties and setting up …
A new report by the TEEB for Business Coalition estimates the global top 100 environmental externalities are costing the economy world-wide around US$4.7 trillion a year in terms of the economic costs of GHG emissions, loss of natural resources, loss of nature-based services, climate change & air pollution-related health costs. …
The implementation of policy relevant to climate change, and its impact, accelerated markedly over the last decade, despite the slow pace of international climate negotiations, says Climate Policy Initiative in a new report, The Policy Climate. The study, presents three decades of evidence from five key economies – Brazil, China, …
It manipulates data and facts to make a case against Act Forest rights campaigners have slammed the satellite image-based study on the implementation of the Forest Rights Act (FRA) in Maharashtra as “deeply faulty and obviously biased,” arguing that it manipulates data and facts to make a case against the …
A Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report tabled in the Assembly on Friday has found that the state government has, between 2000 and 2012, allotted 464.479 acres of government land in Bhubaneswar in 337 cases without any policy, procedure, regulation, rules or manuals. The benefit recipients includes a former Union …
China will spend 100 billion yuan ($16 billion) over three years to deal with Beijing's pollution, an official newspaper reported on Friday, as the government tries to defuse mounting public anger over environmental degradation. Beijing's government has pledged to improve sewage disposal, garbage treatment and air quality, as well as …
Uganda’s wetlands are an important stock of natural capital producing goods and services that have economic value. Despite the need to conserve them, their loss to unsustainable resource utilization activities has continued because they are considered to have little or no economic value. This study aimed at highlighting the economic …
