Judgment of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Raghubir Singh Garia Vs State of Uttarakhand & Others dated 22/04/2025. The matter related to illegal mining of soap stone in village Papon, District Bageshwar, Uttarakhand. The complainant, a resident of the village said that illegal mining of soap stone …
function table() { var popurl="files/images/20051031/36.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=420,height=430,scrollbars=yes") } India has a stock of 80.40 million tonnes of bamboo in its forests, as reported by the Planning Commission in 2003. Northeastern states account for 66 per cent of the total stock (see: Pole position). inbar estimates domestic trade in bamboo involves 20.30 …
function table() { var popurl="files/images/20051031/27-table.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=500,height=275,scrollbars=yes") } In 1959 the lives of the Mizo people in northeast India was morphed completely by the flowering of a bamboo species called Melocanna baccifera or mautak , as they call it. It led to famine, an armed insurrection, more than 3,000 people dead …
function table() { var popurl="files/images/20050815/31-graph.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=350,height=450,scrollbars=yes") } The first morning, I come across piles of freshly chopped wood in front of each house. An Apatani village is built on high ground and is occupied by hundreds of houses, stacked wall to wall. At places, the road broadens to accommodate a …
The incidence of stomach cancer in India is lower than that of any other country around the world. However, in Mizoram, one of the north-eastern state of India, a very high age-adjusted incidence of stomach cancer is recorded. A hospital-based case-control study was carried out to identify the influence of …
The Union cabinet will soon revamp the existing Northeastern Industrial Development Policy (neip). But the revision is very likely to be based on a flawed review of the existing policy. The original neip was initiated by the Union ministry of commerce and industry's department of industrial policy and promotion (dipp) …
"Did you see the heart-rending cow death story on Zee tv, the other day?' asks one participant. Sitting at the oval table in the North East Council (nec) conference room, I turn around, peer into his face, believing I missed some sarcasm. But there is none to be missed. This …
function map() { var popurl="files/images/20050515/34-map.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=620,height=450,scrollbars=yes") } 168 dams. 34,920 mw. That is the hydroelectric power potential in the northeast, as per the Union ministry of power. s lp is just one of them, but shows how subterfuge, dirty politicking, lobbying and trouble such a project can get mired in, …
Once the site of a famous victory of the Gallo tribe over the British, Gerukhamukh village today is the address of the biggest dam ever conceived in India. On the banks of river Sipai in Arunachal Pradesh's (ap ) West Siang district, the village is host to the Subansiri Lower …
the north-eastern states of Mizoram and Manipur have intensified their protest against the Rs 5,000 crore Tipaimukh hydro-electric dam, proposed to be constructed on River Barak at the tri-junction of Manipur, Mizoram and Assam. Bangladesh has already been opposing the project (see Down To Earth,
It's the second week of March 2002. Morum, the annual Apatani spring festival, is in full swing at Hapoli, district Ziro, Arunachal Pradesh. The feasting includes voluminous amounts of barking deer meat. Flesh of common hill partridges, red jungle fowls, Assamese macaques and great barbets have also found their way …
This paper is based on the empirical findings from the Supervision Mission of a project funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). The mission visited the two project districts from 3 May to 17 May 2004 and conducted assessment on the on-going programmes in Karbi Anglong District of …
function illustration() { var popurl="image/20040930/30-illus.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=500,height=450,scrollbars=yes") } Scarcity amidst plenty summarises the water problem ailing hill-stations today. They receive good rainfall but there is no mechanism to collect runoff for later use. Result: water shortage every year. How did the Brits manage it? They cashed on the terrain, and gravity, …
The stinky spectacle of hill-stations getting buried under their own garbage is turning more real. Look down the slopes and you will see mounds of coloured plastic bags, and tourist staples such as empty packets of potato chips and plastic water bottles. All of which is mixed with vegetable waste …
Evam Piljain, an 80-year-old Toda who's spent all her life in Ooty, feels distraught at the sight of her hometown. "I cannot sit in the verandah anymore,' she says. She moves to her drawing room and gazes wistfully at a photograph of Ooty taken in the early part of the …
Planning is non-existent for India's hill-stations, admit hill municipalities. In the absence of a master plan, a free-for-all situation prevails where one constructs wherever one finds free space; if there is lack of space, one can simply add another storey to one's house. There is no tourist plan, which becomes …
Incredible India. The land of mystic splendour. The hidden paradise. These are just three slogans to convince people to turn themselves into tourists and land up, every summer, in droves in hill-stations. Ooty's annual flower show attracts 0.2 million tourists over two days. In addition, it receives over 0.3 million …
