The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
Shashikant Trivedi / Bhopal December 28, 2009, 0:02 IST Madhya Pradesh, which cradles many rivers, lakes and waterfalls in the great Malwa plateau, is today finding its water sources not enough to quench the thirst of its fast-growing cities. While the capital here saw its water sources suddenly drying up …
New Delhi: The SC on Friday issued notice to Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar but refused to stay a Madhya Pradesh HC order that had stalled all work on the canal projects of Omkareswar and Indira Sagar dams till the state completed relief and rehabilitation measures on equal footing …
Water governance in the Narmada river basin has been in the eye of a controversial storm from the time of independence. While initially the dispute had been between the riparian states over the apportionment of the use of the waters of the river for large dam centered canal irrigation and …
Gandhinagar: The Gujarat government has decided to ask Narmada Control Authority (NCA) to give clearance for constructing piers on Narmada dam, stationary at 121.92 metres for two years. Well-placed Sachivalaya sources said the state government will put forward demand at the rehabilitation and resettlement (R&R;) sub-group meeting of NCA on …
Alok Agarwal, 43, was destined for the soft life of an IIT boy. Instead, he courted arrests and broken bones to stop the Maheshwar dam------------- Alok Agarwal had started on the straight and narrow at IIT Kharagpur. Deeply inspired by Gandhi and Aurobindo, he began teaching in a nearby village, …
Ahmedabad: With over 74 per cent of the canal networking yet to be completed, 27 towns and 3,962 villages still without water, Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) president Siddharth Patel said that Chief Minister Narendra Modi has failed to give required attention to the Sardar Sarovar Narmada project. Patel alleged …
Rajiv Shah | TNN Gandhinagar: Clear indications have emerged that the controversial issue of raising Narmada dam height from 121.92 m to full reservoir level of 138.68 m by constructing pillars and putting up radial gates may once again get bogged down in another environmental tangle between the Centre and …
Madhya Pradesh has no land to rehabilitate the dam oustees. Instead, the convoluted rules of the relief package create victims for conmen RANCHOR BHAI, dam oustee framed in a land scam IT WAS ONLY after spending a month in jail that Ranchor Bhai discovered why he was there.
Himanshu Kaushik, TNN 20 July 2009, 03:35am IST GANDHINAGAR: The wait for Narmada water has got longer for thousands of villages in Gujarat with the construction of branch, sub-branch and distribution canals further being delayed. Replying to a question asked by Manavadar MLA Jawahar Chavda and Porbandar MLA Arjun Modhvadia …
It will be the first of its kind irrigation structure in the state, putting a high challenge before modern Civil Engineering technology with very high risk factor. This inter basin tunnel structure is designed to carry 153 cubic metre of water per second to 12 km long underground passage. Having …
75% of the canal network is yet to be built. The Sardar Sarovar Narmada project, often described as the lifeline of Gujarat, has started proving to be a mirage than reality to the farmers of the state who have been eagerly waiting for water from the project for decades. The …
Resettlement and Rehabilitation (R&R;) of project affected families (PAFs) is one of the very important activities of large size water resources projects. The success of R&R; programme of such projects depends on sharing of information about PAFs and fast retrieval. This paper discusses the development of an information management system …
Mahim Pratap Singh BHOPAL: Narmada Bachao Andolan activists met the Madhya Pradesh Governor, Balram Jakhar, here on Monday and apprised him of the concerns of the dam-affected tribal population of five villages in Dewas district. The Narmada Valley Development Authority in April this year had decided to reverse the acquisition …
Irrigation revolution is at the doorsteps of Narmada Valley since the present irrigation potential of 2.24 lakh hectare from Narmada Valley Development Authority (NVDA) projects will be multiplied by five times within the next five years. The NVDA has set to make it 10.46 lakh hectare by the year 2015. …
The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of globalisation and its discontents at a macro level in terms of weakening of the sovereign nation-state, deregulation, liberalisation, privatisation and marketisation. Second, the author would present the grand narrative of 'Dominant Development Discourse' (DDD) with its perceptions and priorities, …
Keeping in view the ensuing monsoon a contingency plan would be implemented in the areas of various reservoirs of Narmada Valley. The plan would include safety masseurs and other basic requirement for the needy affected families, informed chairman of NVDA KL Agrawal here at Narmada Bhawan while reviewing the rehabilitation …
11-Km Canal Will Be Built To Carry Waters Through Wild Ass Sanctuary. Gandhinagar: Kutch will finally get Narmada waters with the Supreme Court clearing the construction of the 11-km-long Kutch Branch Canal (KBC). However, the wild asses, known to be shy and gentle animals used to the huge flat expanse …
Legal Correspondent New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to V.K. Saxena, president of the National Council for Civil Liberties, on a petition filed by Medha Patkar, leader of the Narmada Bachao Andolan, seeking transfer of a criminal defamation case against her from an Ahmedabad court to a …
