Reply affidavit on behalf of Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board in the matter of Tribunal on its motion Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 02/05/2025. The NGT, March 5, 2025 directed the authorities to file their replies/responses by way of affidavits regarding action taken for compliance of directions …
Initially involved in adult education and health activities, Jawan Lal took it as a challenge to transform degraded lands to productive assets in Barwa village for about 110 families. Jawan Lal says, "Even we realised the importance of water and afforestation early, but people were not ready to join and …
Concerned over the water level in the region of Suarashtra which had receeded from 15 metres in 1990 to 120-210 metres in 1998, Mansukh Bhai Suvagia, a 37-year-old government servant decided to initiate steps to tackle the problem. With the help of villagers, he launched a Lok Fund scheme and …
Manna Singh, a farmer by profession is the chairman of Sitapur project in Madhya Pradesh. Couple of years back, 46-year-old Singh was sent as a district representative to Anna Hazare for getting trained. In the year 1996, Union ministry of rural development supported the Sitapur project with a financial aid …
Laxmi Narayan joshi, watershed committee chairman of Saipur village, has been a source of inspiration to the villagers. The watershed work started in 1998-99. Medbandi, a stone embankment built on the lower side of the agriculture field on a hill slope to conserve soil and moisture and help create a …
Ram Karan Bhadana, a Gujjar is not involved in sheep raring as others, but is committed towards the development of the village. He is a well-known activist for development works in the village with a population of 2,000-2,500. He was actively involved in creating awareness, giving importance to tree and …
Sixty-year-old Devendra is the president of the Kedar Village Tank Farmers Society in Tamil Nadu. The society was formed in 1989 and there are around 217 members working with it from 13 different communities. The society operates and irrigates an area of approximately 119 hectares. The Centre for Water Resources, …
A lot has been written on India's vast and ancient experience in rainwater harvesting. But no concrete effort has been made to use these traditional innovations. There is no village in India which cannot meet its drinking water needs if it adopts the kundi technology developed by the people of …
to promote rainwater harvesting in urban areas, the Madhya Pradesh government has amended its existing laws. Any building installing rainwater harvesting equipment will get a rebate of six per cent from annual property rent tax, says R Gopalakrishnan, coordinator of the state's Rajiv Gandhi Watershed Development Mission ( rgwdm ). …
making Water Everybody's Business: Practice and Policy of Water Harvesting , the latest publication of the Centre for Science and Environment ( cse ), was released on June 5, 2001, in Indore by Madhya Pradesh chief minister Digvijay Singh. The function was jointly organised by cse and Nai Duniya, an …
for Gujarat's earthquake victims the future is parched. Amid the ruins of the state government's tall claims of putting in place a rehabilitation package, the state government has totally forgotten about the water storage facilities badly damaged by the earthquake. The result: Saurashtra and Kachhch will face a storage of …
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has decided to give 5,000 garbage dumps to private companies for maintenance. Under the Employment Guarantee Scheme, the Maharashtra government will give financial incentives to anyone who participates in programmes aimed at saving rare medicinal herbs. The Madhya Pradesh government has decided to provide information …
The message of community based water harvesting is spreading - not just in India but also globally. The Food and Agriculture Organisation ( fao ) now sees "increasing water harvesting and water conservation" as a key challenge for ensuring food security. For a large number of people, especially those who …
at a time when the capital is facing a severe water crisis, the Delhi Jal Board ( djb ) seems least concerned about the problem. On May 11, the Delhi high court ( hc ) summoned the djb along with the Municipal Corporation of Delhi ( mcd ), New Delhi …
Making Water Everybody's Business: Practice and Policy of Water Harvesting , a book, was released in Kathmandu, Nepal, on May 15, 2001, by the vice chancellor of Tribhuvan University, Navin Prakash Jung Shah. Centre for Science and Environment, a Delhi-based non-governmental organisation has published the book. Speaking at the public …
if the Pani biradari (water community) formed at the Paani sammelan (water conference) organised by the Centre for Science and Environment ( cse) on March 23 and 24, 2001 in New Delhi was a ray of hope then the Rashtriya Jal Sammelan (national water conference). organised at Neemi village near …
in the face of the worsening water crisis in the capital, the Delhi government's much-hyped rainwater harvesting programme is yet to take off. Last year, the chief minister, Sheila Dixit, had made rainwater harvesting mandatory for all Delhi government buildings. However, the plan is yet to be implemented. Out of …
Sources once considered renewable are diminishing rapidly. Water is one element which, is declining in the face of human onslaught. India's historic billionth baby has not led the government to take concrete measures to control this rapid population growth. Jabalpur is located in the heart of Madhya Pradesh and lies …
Gandhi's vision of self-sufficient villages in India still remains a distant dream. Community participation and decentralisation seem nothing but, oft-repeated rhetoric from our politicians. But few individuals do try to rise against the tide and show a ray of hope. Parasu Ram Mishra who died on March 25 this year …
Despite the shortcomings of the Neeru Meeru (water and you) programme reflected during its first and second phase, the Andhra Pradesh chief minister, Chandrababu Naidu, has decided to launch the third phase of the programme from May 2001, with a new name
Last year the police fired upon people protesting against government inaction in dealing with the water crisis in Falla village of Jamnagar district. This fortnight, the story repeated itself in Rajkot. Eight people were injured when police intervened to stop protesters from immolating themselves. A people's action group called Deshpremi …
