As climate change intensifies, it is imperative for policymakers to address the escalating loss and damage it inflicts on vulnerable communities in developing countries. In India's Maharashtra state, these impacts are forcing rural families into life-altering decisions and migrations to work in sugarcane fields, where exploitative practices by contractors, including …
ROURKELA: With monsoon playing truant and paddy crops in half of the total 17 blocks in Sundargarh district showing signs of damage, the demand for drought tag is gaining ground. Sources said following low rainfall during June and July, the farmers had pinned all hopes on August to salvage the …
Ranchi, Aug. 31: Jharkhand may have been declared drought-hit, but the state has little funds to begin relief work. Forget about Central funds allocation, the state officials are clueless whether the drought assessment report has been submitted to the Centre. Till the funds start trickling in from the Centre, the …
Jorhat, Aug. 31: A Rs 55.04-crore project will supply purified water of the Brahmaputra to Jorhat homes and wash away fears of arsenic contamination in every gulp. DoNER minister Bijoy K. Handique had announced the project after he took charge of the ministry in May last year. The plan was …
Ranchi, Aug. 30: Jharkhand intends to submit a Rs 7,500 crore proposal to the Centre for the smooth completion of different major and medium irrigation projects in different parts of the state. The decision was taken today at a review meeting presided by chief secretary A.K. Singh. The funds would …
25 August 2010 KOLKATA, 25 AUG: In a bid to ensure Central assistance in the wake of drought in 11 districts, the state government is apparently leaving no stone unturned. Senior officials of at least seven departments will meet tomorrow to prepare a “foolproof” memorandum seeking Central assistance for 11 …
Hazaribagh, Aug. 20: Director of National Horticulture Board Bijay Kumar, who is heading the central team currently conducting a drought survey in Jharkhand, today admitted that the state
Hazaribagh/Ranchi, Aug. 19: Three members of a central team, which is in the state to review the drought situation, today visited Hazaribagh and observed that poor rainfall over two years had adversely affected crop patterns in the parched district. The team, led by director of National Horticulture Board Bijay Kumar, …
Pioneer News Service | Lucknow Amidst the inconsistency about the rain fall the state government is contemplating to declare few districts as the drought affected due to short fall of the rain than the normal one.The datas related with rain fall of the various districts are being collected and studied …
Ranchi, Aug. 18: At a time a central team is busy assessing the drought situation in Jharkhand, the JVM has stepped up its demand that the entire state be declared famine-hit, declaring an indefinite hungerstrike by its farmers
KOLKATA, 18 AUG: The state government's decision to identify certain districts as drought-hit has raised a howl of protest even within the Cabinet, with Mr Srikumar Mukherjee, the minister from CPI, pointing out that the state was making its decisions based on average rainfall received by a district instead of …
Bhubaneswar: Apprehending a possible crop loss in Odisha this year, chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday directed the concerned department to make an action plan to combat drought-like situation in the state. The directive of the chief minister came while reviewing precautionary measures on possible flood situation at the State …
MANOJ PRASAD RANCHI, AN eight-member Central team, headed by National Horticulture Mission Director Vijay Kumar, will tour the rural are as of Ranchi and Khunti districts on Wednesday to assess the impact of a failed monsoon on kharif crops. "The team may also visit some other areas for an on-the-spot …
TAMLUK, 17 AUG: The CPI-M ruled state government may not have included Midnapore East in the list of drought-hit districts, but this area too is facing severe drought-like situation with 18 out of 25 blocks receiving more than 35 percent deficit in rainfall this monsoon. The Trinamul Congress has demanded …
RANCHI/KOLKATA, 16 AUG: Drought in the eastern parts of the country spread to more areas with all the 24 districts in Jharkhand and 11 districts in West Bengal being declared drought-hit by the respective state governments today.Bihar chief minister Mr Nitish Kumar had yesterday declared the entire state drought-hit.Deficient rainfall …
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar listed the welfare measures that his Government had initiated for the people of the State. In the course of his I-Day speech on Sunday, he also declared the entire State as drought-hit, thus paving the way for a host of relief measures to be implemented.
Mahesh Joshi For the past eight years, standing crops of the three tehsils of Kannad, Gangapur, Vaijapur and some parts of Phulambri in Aurangabad district lay vulnerable, not only to drought and heavy rains, but also to deer herds.The threat has become particularly severe over the past three years with …
New Delhi: Even as the capital bathed in heavy rains bringing relief from the baking sun, concerns peaked about the failed monsoon in eastern India, with the issue threatening to become a factor in poll-bound Bihar. Congress MP Jagdambika Pal this week told Lok Sabha that eastern UP, Bihar and …
