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. …
This paper describes the implications of the land acquisition process in a village in the Gurgaon district of Haryana state in northwestern India. Gurgaon city, the district capital, is emerging as a major industrial hub, its growth made possible by the large-scale acquisition of agricultural lands by the government. The …
R Haldorai TRADERS downed shutters in support of the bandh called by Opposition parties and private organisations condemning the Nilgiris district administration's ban on sale of private forestlands, at Gudalur on Tuesday. A protest rally led by former tourism minister A Miller (AIADMK) and Gudalur town secretary Raja Thangavelu was …
Kachchh, the second largest district in the country (45,652 sq. km), is located in the north-western region of Gujarat. In spite of being arid, Kachchh district has 80.21% of the total wetlands area in Gujarat2 (21.77 lakh ha). Most of the wetlands in this arid region are man-made, probably to …
Mumbai The proposed Metro station near Nanavati Hospital, part of a typically high-traffic-density route, has been chosen for a pilot study on the implications of granting additional built-up rights on land along the Metro routes. The existing FSI in suburbs is 1 in a 500-m radius of a station. The …
In a controversial move, the Andhra Pradesh cabinet on Thursday cleared a proposal for conversion of 1,412 hectare Nallamala reserve forest area into a memorial park in memory of late Chief Minister Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy. Dr Rajasekhara Reddy was killed in a helicopter crash on September 2 at Pavurallagutta …
The Forest Department has decided to prepare integrated catchment area treatment (CAT) plans based on geographical information system (GIS) for all major river basins of the state to ensure effective implementation and monitoring. The state-of-the-art GIS will incorporate remote sensing (RS) data and global positioning system (GPS) technology which will …
Vinayak Chatterjee / New Delhi September 21, 2009, 0:29 IST The introduction of the Land Acquisition Amendment Bill (2009) has the potential to derail economic development. Exasperated with the public perception of its role, the government now wants to abdicate its key sovereign function of making land available for economic …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Forest Minister Benoy Viswom said here on Thursday that the State government was trying to solve a two-decade-old problem of farmers by amending the Kerala Forest (Vesting and Management of Ecologically Fragile Lands) Act. In an article released for publication, the Minister said the amendment Bill, passed by the …
KOLKATA: The West Bengal government will formally invite information technology majors Wipro and Infosys to take immediate possession of 45 acres of land being offered to each of them at Rajarhat on the outskirts of the city and start constructing their facilities. This follows its decision, announced on September 7, …
PNS | Bhubaneswar Both the officials of the State Government and the Centre on Monday admitted that land acquisition was one of the major bottlenecks in setting up a power project in the State.
food security Ethiopia defends land grab Ethiopia, where 20 per cent of the people are in urgent need of food aid, defended its plan to offer 2.7 million hectares (ha) cultivable land to foreign companies.
It is agriculture that brought malaria with it if humans had not abandoned their nomadic ways for agriculture, two important events would be missing from the history of civilization: deforestation and domestication of animals. Man would also not have heard of diseases like aids and swine flu. In 2007, the …
To include private land of small farmers, freezing wages the rural development ministry recently issued a notification expanding the scope of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (nregs) to allow asset creation on private land of small and marginal farmers. The work, the notification said, will include
kolkata: Trinamool congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday asked the government to return the land acquired for the proposed IT park at Jagadishpur near Rajarhat. She has also asked farmers to start cultivating on their land allegedly taken away at gunpoint.
The West Bengal government today scrapped the ambitious information technology (IT) project on the outskirts of Kolkata, where IT majors like Wipro and Infosys were supposed to set up their facilities.
Sept. 7: The West Bengal government on Monday scrapped the proposed IT City in the wake of the land scam that surfaced following a shootout outside and arson inside the Vedic Village resort in Rajarhat on August 23. Spread over 1,600 acres adjacent to the five-star resort, the IT city …
Residents of Colomba-Quepem on Saturday confronted the officials of forest department, when they along with the officials of a mining company went to inspect the forestland at Colomba. According to sources, after being informed that officials from forest department headed by Conservator of Forest, Delhi Cadet, Yogesh, South Goa Deputy …
