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 …
Programmes providing small loans are not effective for reducing poverty, stated a report published by the United Nations Department for Economics and Social Affairs. The micro credit concept has gained a lot of popularity during the last 10 years. But according to the report, the programmes had many limitations when …
MANY projects in Tokyo may soon go underground. Acute shortage of space and traffic congestion are prompting developers and the Japanese government to look for viable solutions. Experts say that the only way out is to invest in underground projects. And recently, a government panel released a report which has …
On the delay in taking up the Biodiversity Bill in Parliament: India will be the first country in the world to legislate on sovereign rights over its biodiversity. It is going to be a very comprehensive bill. For that, we need to seek the views of experts and stakeholders in …
On the major threat to the environment in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region: The major threat to the environment in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas is poverty and population growth. The need for more land for increasing population, expansion of agriculture and the growing demand for wood has taken a toll on the …
anna hazare has been selected as the recipient of the 1998 care International Humanitarian Award. Hazare will be the second Indian after Ela Bhatt to receive the award. Peter Bell, president of care - usa , will facilitate Hazare with the award in Washington. According to Tom Alcedo, spokesperson of …
only a chain of ponds and water bodies remain where there once was a river. The Sonai river in the 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, has disappeared not due to natural changes but due to irresponsible developmental activities. The river had long lost its exuberance when local municipality filled …
if one goes by precedents, this surely is a success that Indian hardware engineers can boast of. The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing ( c-dac ), Pune, recently unveiled the param 10000, its latest supercomputer. param 10000 can perform 100 billion (100,000,000,000) mathematical operations per second, making it Asia's …
the Union ministry of environment and forests ( mef ), has initiated a multi-institutional project to study the environmental impact due to development in Kochi, the harbour city of Kerala. The study, scheduled to be finished by the year 2000, will be followed by specific management plans for critical areas. …
most Non-governmental organisations ( ngo s) are born out of a sense of dissatisfaction and idealism. This dissatisfaction arises due to the inadequate working of official bodies, dissatisfaction with the means and the end. It goes without saying that ngo s catalyse social equity and mass empowerment. This is because, …
At a time when plantation companies are under pressure for financial irregularities, they are also facing severe criticism from the ministry of environment and forests which has castigated them for "over projecting' their returns. Increasing demand for drinking water and continuous discharge of effluents into the Gomti has sent alarm …
journals brought out by various non-profit voluntary organisations tend to be boring and are often rele-gated to dusty library shelves and reference sections seldom visited by people. However, this book, Encounter a Journal of policy research and development initiatives , brought out by "Uplabdhi" an a non-governmental organisation (ngo) is …
The World Bank (WB) in its 50-year history has supported more than 6,600 development projects worth US $337 in about 140 countries. These projects have supported sectoral growth in various economies. The WB has been instrumental in improving poverty reduction in East Asia, increased food production in South Asia and …
international human rights watchdog group, Amnesty International, on September 23 warned that the increasing globalisation of capital is leading to "development being pursued at the expense of human rights' and cited a number of examples from India to underline its point. Amnesty's statement was put out on Tuesday to coincide …
environmental and citizen's groups of Chennai have started a campaign to protect the Adyar creek and estuary, situated in the heart of the city. They say that developmental activities of the state government are a threat to the natural ecosystem and common lands. The creek and the estuary are habitat …
This article discusses how the Sardar Sarovar Dam in India is a case of a development project which causes environmental displacement on a massive scale. This occurs through the impairment of livelihoods by environmental changes. The problems of resettlement and rehabilitation are emphasized in the article as are further displacement …
Bhutan ranks 155 in the human Development Index, says the Human Development Report 1997, released by the United Nations Development Programme in mid-June. The report shows the extent, severity and complexity of global poverty and proposes a feasible and affordable strategy to eradicate it. On a "human poverty index of …
Supply of clean fresh water, already threatened by soaring pollution levels, is depleting at such a rate in some regions that within 30 years two-thirds of humanity will suffer "moderate to severe water stress". This gloomy prediction has been made by a forthcoming UN report titled Comprehensive Assessment of the …
developing water resources in the eastern Himalayan region through integrated regional projects is the only way to ameliorate poverty in south Asian countries. This was emphasised by participants at a recent conference in Kathmandu on regional co-operation in harnessing rivers. Experts from Nepal, Bangladesh and India concluded that shelving water …
terming all World Bank ( wb ) projects as being basically destructive, some of India's most important non-governmental organisations ( ngo s) boycotted a wb president- ngo meet in Delhi, unequivocally demanding that wb quit India. They stated that India was capable of raising funds required for development, and there …
he has finally come out in his true colours. Prime Minister ( pm ) H D Deve Gowda's recent tirade against greens is disgusting, but this should have been expected. He has only re-affirmed what he had once advised a campaigner of the Centre for Science and Environment: environmentalists are …
