Central to the achievement of the Agenda for Sustainable Development is an adequate, equitably distributed and fully supported health workforce. Nurses are the largest occupational group and represent an indispensable force with which to combat inequities in access to health services and progress towards health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), while …
The draft policy guidelines are basically for sharing / distribution of waters of inter -State rivers amongst the States and Union Territories of India and are recommendatory. It has no relevance or applicability in regard to international sharing/ distribution of waters of international basins in which India is a co-basin …
Ensure equitable distribution of water for urban and rural areas, and for wildlife: organic farmer The State government has been urged to formulate a water policy for the Cauvery basin to harness the resource in a judicious and effective manner. The suggestion comes in the wake of unprecedented drought and …
With elections to the Delhi Assembly due by the end of 2013, Delhi Chief Minister and Chairperson of Delhi Jal Board Sheila Dikshit has instructed the Delhi Jal Board not to increase the water tariff from January 1. A statement issued by the Delhi Government said as per a decision …
AnRak Aluminium is moving ahead with the bauxite mining project in Makavarapalem in Visakhapatnam district despite the local opposition warns this analysis in the Economic and Political Weekly with focus on social and environment impact of the project. A bauxite/aluminium project very similar to the Vedanta project in Odisha is …
The text of the opening statement by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the 6th meeting of the National Water Resources Council in New Delhi. Read More: http://www.indiablooms.com/NewsDetailsPage/2012/newsDetails281212o.php
To link Siruvani distribution network with Pilloor network To overcome any difficulty it may have on the water supply front in Summer 2013, the Coimbatore Corporation has initiated a few measures. Disclosing the details, Commissioner T.K. Ponnusamy said that the civic body planned to link the Siruvani distribution network with …
This is the finalized guidelines for preparation of detailed project report for Rural Piped Water Supply Schemes by Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation.
The Delhi Jal Board escalated the cost of the public private partnership project being carried out in Nangloi to extend benefit to the private company that has been awarded the work, a non-government organisation opposing the PPP model has claimed. The NGO, Citizen Front for Water Democracy, has alleged that …
The Citizens’ Front for Water Democracy and Water Workers Alliance, groups working against the privatization of water in Delhi, have alleged a scam of more than Rs 4,000 crore in the Nangloi water treatment plant refurbishment project. Members have alleged that the project cost has been inflated highly to benefit …
Following the Supreme Court’s directive to Karnataka to release 10,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu from December 5 to 9, Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar has decided to take a delegation to Delhi on Friday to apprise Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union Water Resources Minister Harish Rawat of the …
Asks Centre to indicate time frame for notifying final decision of Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal Directing Karnataka to release 10,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu from Wednesday till December 9, the Supreme Court asked the Centre to indicate the time frame within which it would notify the final decision …
Hundreds of farmers staged protests in Karnataka’s Mandya district on Wednesday after the Supreme Court ordered the State to release water at the rate of 10,000 cusecs (cubic feet per second) to Tamil Nadu. The Mandya Zilla Raitha Hitharakshana Samiti held a meeting to discuss the Supreme Court order. The …
A day after talks failed between the CMs of TN and Karnataka on the Cauvery dispute, the Supreme Court Friday directed the counsels of both the governments to file compilation of the documents which can be relied upon in the resolution of the row. A bench of Justices D.K. Jain …
Chief Ministers Shettar and Jayalalithaa fail to break the deadlock over water-sharing ‘Not a drop of water’:Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar and his Tamil Nadu counterpart J Jayalalitha addressing the media separately in Bangalore on Thursday.Photos: K . Bhagya Prakash ‘Not a drop of water’:Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar and …
BMC will set up a committee to enable equitable distribution of water in the city. The committee will survey the distribution system to identify areas where supply is not equal. Additional municipal commissioner Rajeev Jalota told a standing committee meeting on Monday, “Through the committee headed by Mahadev Chitale, BMC …
Justice Sachar writes to Sheila: “Consumers will have to pay more for services” A non-government organisation, the Water Privatisation-Commercialisation Resistance Committee (WPCRC), has written to Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit against privatising the water sector in the Capital. Drawing comparisons with privatisation of the power sector carried out earlier, the WPCRC …
Accused of allowing huge cost overruns in award of work for revamping the water transmission and distribution system in the Capital’s Nangloi area on a public-private partnership basis, the Delhi Jal Board on Thursday vehemently denied the charges and said comparisons could not be drawn between the Nangloi project and …
‘Award of work for revamping water supply violates rules’ A non-government organisation working in the water sector has alleged misappropriation of funds by the Delhi Jal Board in the award of work for improvement and revamping of existing water supply, transmission and distribution network under the Nagloi Water Treatment Plant. …
Lays emphasis on long-term monitoring Groundwater resources in Kerala have come under increasing stress from rising levels of exploitation and pollution, the first aquifer atlas of Kerala has revealed. The atlas, compiled by the Central Ground Water Board, estimates the net annual groundwater availability in the State at 6.01 billion …
Growth is happening faster than we ever imagined. Construction is booming and expansion is gobbling agricultural land I travelled to two different cities in two different states last fortnight — Indore and Guwahati. I came back with images identified by common distinctions: piles of garbage and glitzy new shopping malls. …
