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 …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government on Monday geared up its machinery to tackle drought-like situation in more than 30 blocks in eight districts. Scanty rainfall has affected kharif crop in some pockets of 15 districts in the State while the situation is alarming in the 30 blocks, according to preliminary reports …
BHUBANESWAR: The controversial Sindol hydro power project rocked the Assembly on Thursday with the Congress and the BJP demanding a discussion ahead of the adjournment motion on the impending drought situation in the State. Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Leader of Opposition Bhupinder Singh sought to know the motive …
BHUBANESWAR: Exhibiting dry paddy saplings in the Assembly, Opposition Congress and BJP members on Thursday demanded declaration of drought in the State without waiting for eye estimation report on kharif crop status. Participating in the adjournment motion on drought situation, Congress member from Kantabanji Santosh Singh Saluja showed a bundle …
BALASORE: With no rain since July, this coastal district is all set to face drought if the dry spell continues for another week. According to reports, paddy saplings on thousands of acres, have dried up and fields have developed huge cracks due to water stress. Blocks like Remuna, Oupada, Nilagiri, …
The Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) today blamed the government for having “lost time” in getting its act together despite the combined momentum of stability after the May 2009 general election and the successful navigation through the global crisis. Presenting the Economic Outlook for 2011-12, the C Rangarajan-chaired council …
As part of the efforts for extension of irrigation facilities, the State Government has chalked out a plan for construction of 67 new reservoirs under a multi-purpose project for drought-affected areas in the State. This will bring an additional 1,000 hectare under irrigation apart from developing other facilities. Estimated to …
PUNE: Activist Anna Hazare catapulted into national stardom following his relentless pursuit of the Lokpal Bill, but the unassuming dhoti-clad social worker has been a star in his state, and village, for a long time now. Fifty-year-old Maruti Auti recalls the days when villagers in Ahmednagar's Ralegan Siddhi, 80 km …
LUCKNOW: Reacting to the UPA government's charge that Uttar Pradesh has failed miserably in utilizing Central funds meant for development of drought-hit Bundelkhand, UP chief minister Mayawati on Saturday wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asking him to waive off loans issued by nationalized banks to farmers in the region …
BHUBANESWAR: The Government has set an ambitious target to improve the condition of 10 lakh hectares of agricultural land through watershed management programmes for sustainable livelihood in rainfed areas. The target will be achieved in next five years. The Government claimed to have taken drought-proofing measures over an area of …
Food prices will soar by as much as 30 per cent over the next 10 years, the United Nations and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development have predicted. Angel Gurria, Secretary-General of the OECD, said that any further increase in global food prices, which have risen by 40 per cent …
Farmers Of Bundelkhand Get Govt Relief Cheques For 10 From State Govt Banda: When Sushil Kumar heard that the government was about to offer drought-hit farmers compensation in the form of monetary relief, his hopes rose. Production may have been poor, but all was not lost. With the compensation amount …
BANDA: When Sushil Kumar heard that the government was about to offer drought-hit farmers compensation in the form of monetary relief, his hopes rose. The Economic Times may have been poor, but all was not lost. With the compensation amount he would get, Kumar thought he would buy better seeds …
The Centre on Thursday sanctioned an additional Rs 200 crore for Bundelkhand with the allocation aimed at addressing drinking water problems in the districts belonging to the region. The fresh infusion, over and above the Rs 7,266 crore special package that was announced for the region, following intervention Rahul Gandhi, …
Sunita Narain profiles the man who never took half steps to development and transformed a drought-hit village into a prosperous one back in the 1980s Anna Hazare The first time I met Anna Hazare was in the mid-1980s. My colleague Anil Agarwal was travelling in search of answers to how …
FAIZABAD: Sheer callousness on part of local officials prevented the state government's drought relief cheques from reaching the beneficiaries in Faizabad district. Thousands of such cheques dated between 2003 and 2007 were found lying in garbage at Milkipur tehsil office of the district. The matter came to light when some …
An amount of Rs 2 crore 73 lakh has been allotted to ensure employment of 100-days at 18 tehsils of eight drought affected districts under National Rural Employment Guarantee Mission. Panchayat and Rural Development, Social Justice Minister Gopal Bhargava informed that employment of 100 days would be ensured to the …
Following the failure of monsoon in the State for the third consecutive year, the groundwater level has declined significantly, writes Jamal Ayub The failure of the monsoon in Madhya Pradesh for the third consecutive year has had an impact in the State and its various districts are witnessing a drought …
JAMMU, Mar 8 : Minister for Revenue, Relief and Rehabilitation, Raman Bhalla today distributed relief worth Rs. 1.24 crore among 72 drought hit families of Akhnoor tehsil under National Calamity Relief Fund (NCRF) at a function held at Government Boys Higher Secondary School, Akhnoor. Minister for Health, Sham Lal Sharma, …
