The Bikaner Development Authority Bill, 2025, passed by the Rajasthan Assembly, aims to establish a Bikaner Development Authority to regulate development activities in the Bikaner district. The bill was passed by voice vote, with the opposition Congress walking out of the House due to insufficient discussion. The bill was introduced …
If threats could cure, then Karnataka's capital would be a town-planner's delight, instead of the metropolitan mess that it is. Azim Premji, head of Wipro Corporation, has threatened to pull out the company's operations from the city if its infrastructure does not improve. This is not the first time that …
· 110 out of 182 countries are culturally diverse with at least 25 per cent of their populations belonging to an ethnic or a religious minority. In 42 countries their population ranges between 10-25 per cent · Yet, 900 million of them belong to groups subject to some form of …
One stove, one pot What eco-development means to people in Nagarhole When forest department officials find a handful of tourists staying overnight in the Nagarhole forest they put on a video show in the evening. For the last two years the same cassette has been played: Nagarhole's magnificent wild animals …
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Both the Forestry Research Education and Extension Project (FREEP) and its later, larger avatar, the India Eco-development project (IEDP) had a single objective: conserve biodiversity. What also made it a different form of rural development, quite unlike anything government had hitherto done, was the equal emphasis on improving the lives …
IEDP's larger monitoring mechanism, too, seems to have been primarily meant for the government or Bank consumption. The Bank sent its supervisory missions and its supervisors wrote
There exists a document called Linking Biodiversity Conservation and Rural Livelihoods. It is the Indian government's initial salvo for a new eco-development project, expected to begin late 2005. It will cost approximately US $48 million (Rs 220 crore), with beneficiaries putting in US $2 million (Rs 9.20 crore). The remaining …
The Union government has declared this year as the "Year of Scientific Awareness'. The National Council for Science and Technology Communications (ncstc)
bi-advantages: As per researchers from Canada's York University, bilingualism is useful not only because it makes it possible to talk to more number of people. They have found that bilinguals perform a variety of cognitive tasks better than people who speak only one language. Furthermore, the differences between the two …
Nimati Domohini village in the west of Buxa Tiger Reserve, West Bengal, is on a highway where a side road breaks off and leads to the reserve's Nimati range office seven kilometres away. But the village is miles away from realising the dreams dreamt by its 331-member eco-development committee (EDC) …
the 11th quadrennial session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (unctad) agreed on three guidelines to ensure a sustainable path to development for all: increasing South-South cooperation; ensuring adequate policy space for countries to formulate development strategies; and improving coordination and understanding between national as well as …
IT IS easy to romanticise Panchayati Raj. The notion of happy rural people managing their destinies with help from the government has the glossy appeal of advertising brochures. But when it comes to brass tacks, delivery of development programmes is very complex. Take the case of the eco-development project funded …
Keshubhai Patel, a former member of parliament (mp) from Gujarat and a veteran leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (bjp), is known to champion farmers’ causes. Yet he didn’t spend a single rupee out of the Rs 10 crore he got during the past five years under the mp Local …
The World Bank (wb) has approved its largest ever environmental grant for the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar. The funds, amounting to us $49 million, are meant to help the country in protecting its unique environment and native species. Madagascar, the world's fourth largest island, has an array of flora …
Global Reports Between the 1940s and the 1980s, about 10 new reports were issued every decade on developmental issues. But in 1990s, the number suddenly shot up to 44. Now there is an e-discussion forum to analyse the relationship between these reports and global policy challenges. The forum hosted by …
This question was asked in an official letter in February this year. The letter had a genesis: an unprecedented gathering of nearly 50,000 people from Meghalaya's tribal communities at Smit, West Khasi Hills. Heeding the call of chiefs, people endorsed on January 14 this year a historical "People's Budget'. Filling …
Why did Om Prakash Rawat, the former sarpanch of Mandiya in Madhya Pradesh’s Tikamgarh district, vote for the Congress in the 2003 assembly elections after fighting against the state government over control of water bodies? “I supported the Congress because during our fight against the district administration Chief Minister Digvijay …
February 10, 2004 / New Delhi Railway Station UNSUSPECTING PASSENGERS: A Toyota Qualis stops in front of a series of indomitable white Ambassador cars in the vip parking lot.
THE UNION minister for human resource development's election-eve decision to slash Indian Institute of Management (IIM) fees by a third has created a storm. The most vocal lot are the faculty and management of the premier schools, and industry captains, who employ their products. The reaction from the minister and …
