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 …
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 …
AMIT GUPTARanchi, Aug. 11: The state administration will submit a memorandum to the Centre seeking assistance of around Rs 2,000 crore in Jharkhand, which is in the throes of a severe drought.This was decided today in a meeting chaired by the governor
Amitabh Sinha Monsoon showers in the last few days have almost completely wiped out the overall rainfall deficit of this season, but entire eastern India continues to reel under an abnormally dry spell and now faces a second successive year of serious drought.As of Wednesday, there is almost 25 per …
New Delhi, Aug. 10: A team of central officials and experts will visit Jharkhand to assess the drought situation, Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar said in the Lok Sabha today, a day after Raj Bhavan added four names to the existing list of 12 parched districts.Tomorrow, the central team will …
Unsatisfied with the claims of the State Government that there was no drought- like situation anywhere in UP, the members of Samajwadi Party (SP) staged a walk out from the Vidhan Parishad on Tuesday. The SP leaders were not satisfied with government claims on good or satisfactory rains during the …
SUDHIR KUMAR MISHRARanchi, Aug. 9: The water resources department has finalised a proposal to demand Rs 1,727.22 lakh from the National Calamity Relief Fund to restart 152 irrigation projects in the 12 districts that have been declared drought-hit. The aim is to restore these schemes within 60 days.Once these projects …
Jamshedpur, Aug. 9: The forest department has extended a helping hand to the farmers of Pipla and Bhagabandh villages in drought-hit East Singhbhum district under the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), a frontal agency fighting hunger worldwide.Recently, the department started a lift irrigation project in both the villages covering …
In an unseemly hurry the state finance minister, Mr Asim Dasgupta, today announced that the state government would declare eight districts drought-affected if there is a rainfall deficit till 15 August which is the deadline for paddy transplantation.The prior announcement which was made apparently to help the farmers put their …
Jamshedpur, July 25: A parched Jharkhand can look forward to some relief in the next two days. The Patna Meteorological Office, which monitors weather conditions in the state, has forecast widespread rainfall over Jharkhand in the next 48 hours.
