Central to the achievement of the Agenda for Sustainable Development is an adequate, equitably distributed and fully supported health workforce. Nurses are the largest occupational group and represent an indispensable force with which to combat inequities in access to health services and progress towards health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), while …
For years, the Amravati Thermal Power Project in Maharashtra has been facing public opposition. Farmers in the Vidarbha region fear the power plant will suck water from the irrigation project in Upper Wardha. On June 17, an unexpected breakthrough appeared. The state's water resources minister Ajit Pawar met people's representatives, …
Aug. 22: The panchayat raj minister, Mr Botsa Satyanarayana, has raised objection to a thermal power station proposed in his native Vizianagaram district and has stalled operations of the project. He even dashed off a letter to the Chief Minister, Mr K. Rosaiah, stating that he would not approve the …
Anantapur, Aug. 17: The dispute over discharge of water from the Tungabhadra High Level Canal between two constituencies came to the fore with politicians facing inte-nse pressures from people. It is a common phenomena for Tadipatri and Singanamala farmers to launch agitations every year for water whenever water from the …
TELUGU Desam Party chief Chandrababu Naidu reignited the Godavari river water sharing controversy when he was arrested last month on his way to the Babhali barrage in Maharashtra’s Nanded district. Andhra Pradesh has long held that the barrage, located 7 km into its border with Maharashtra, will deprive Telangana of …
ANAND S.T. DASPATNA A senior BJP eader has been carrying out an untiring judicial and pub ic crusade for Bihar and Jharkhand's rights over its share of the Sone river's water, which gets illegally diverted by neighbouring Uttar Pradesh for an NTPC hermal power plant, endangering farmland irrigation in arge …
Smriti Kak RamachandranNEW DELHI: The Munak Canal has missed yet another deadline. Delhi's hopes of getting water from the canal before the Commonwealth Game seem bleak as Haryana has thwarted the plans by refusing to complete the construction of the canal and seeking more money. Haryana, which is responsible for …
Mhadei Bachao Abhiyan general secretary and environmentalist Rajendra Kerkar has claimed that the State government is not serious and sincere over Karnataka's controversial Mhadei diversion project, which would hamper the interests of Goa.In a press release, Kerkar stated that in order to divert 7.56 TMC ft of water, the Karnataka …
Water sharing disputes between states are growing, the latest in the news being the conflict between Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh over the Babhli barrage. It puts the spotlight on underlying issues like the lack of an efficient mediating mechanism for conflict resolution both within government and the civil society at …
Minister for Water Resources Basavaraj Bommai said it is impossible to release water to Tamil Nadu from reservoirs in the Cauvery river basin till all the reservoirs are filled. Addressing mediapersons in Bangalore on Thursday, the minister said the water level in Krishnaraja Sagar dam stood at 91.3 feet. The …
Rajiv Shah | TNN Gandhinagar: Fast pace of industrialisation and urbanisation in Gujarat has forced the state government to kick-start a new process of reducing the area required for Narmada command area, 18.45 lakh hectares (ha). Terming it as
J. Venkatesan New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to spell out whether there was any proposal to set up a tribunal to adjudicate the river water dispute between Goa and Karnataka on construction of a project across the Mandovi river. A Bench comprising Justices Mukundakam Sharma …
As the controversy relating to the Babhali dam flared up with the visit of TDP leader Chandra Babu Naidu with his party MLAs to Maharashtra in a bid to go to the site of the barrage, the disputing states are now looking for next hearing of the case in the …
Basar (Adilabad), July 16: The Telugu Desam president, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, on Friday asked the UPA chairperson, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, to convene a meeting of the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, and the Chief Ministers of Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra to resolve the Babli dispute. Mr Naidu, who was …
B. Chandrashekhar In all, 74 leaders of TDP including 50 MLAs, MLCs and MPs led by Mr. Naidu, were arrested when they tried to enter Maharashtra territory crossing the barricades set up by that State police. They were taken to Dharmabad police station in Nanded district. Several woman legislators were …
July 15: States that are squabbling over inter-state water distribution should resolve their differences through bilateral talks, said the secretary, Union water resources ministry, Mr U. N. Panjiar. Talking to this correspondent, Mr Panjiar pointed out that Andhra Pradesh has disputes with Orissa over Vamsadhara, with Maharashtra over the Babli …
Warangal, July 4: Since 2008, 79 Water Users Association (WUA), each having 12 members, are working on paper as water is yet to be pumped into the 48 distributaries in Warangal, known as distributaries beyond Maneru (DBM), from Lower Maner Dam (LMD). The 48 DBM in Warangal were primarily supposed …
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Anantapur, June 29: Karnataka has decided to release water from the Tungabhadra dam to its right bank high-level canal on the Anantapur side for Khariff agricultural season on July 10. There had been incessant showers in the dam
