Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Jagan Prasad Tehriya Vs State of Uttar Pradesh dated 23/05/2025. The applicant has alleged large-scale illegal felling of green trees within the Agra district, Uttar Pradesh. The application revealed instances of illegal tree felling at Fatehabad, Sadar, Kiraoli and Agra …
In a statement, members of the Indian Medical Association have urged the government to take immediate measures to control particulate emissions from diesel vehicles in the country. The Chaliyar Action Council has approached the National Human Rights Commission urging it to undertake a comprehensive investigation into the denial of right …
it was only a few years ago, after Amartya Sen had moved to Harvard from Oxford, with highly regarded contributions in development economics, that the fraternity also had already begun to regard him as a potential Nobel Prize winner. Since then, he had moved from his earlier fields to the …
Bangkok's Royal Irrigation Department has announced a scheme to pipe water to needy villages. Once completed, it will provide a 24-hour water supply to northeastern provinces and will increase farm output two-fold, said the department chief Pramote. With 12 projects under the scheme, each project is considered as one system, …
the green lung of Bhubaneshwar, the Chandaka reserve forests, is facing a peculiar problem. It is not about the usual human threat to animals from habitat encroachment or deforestation. But a problem that stems from the boom in the elephant population
The Supreme Court has called for more powers to be given to the National Environment Appellate Authority to enable it to handle environment cases expeditiously. Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has directed forest and police officials to arrest all those involved in the slaughter of protected birds in …
Women spend much more time working than men in virtually every society for which time use studies are available, according to the United Nations Human Development Report, 1998. This includes both paid and unpaid work. The disparities are particularly marked in rural areas of developing countries, where the environment in …
There was a time when forests were dense here. Today, travelling by train through district Alwar of Rajasthan, you will not see too many of them. They disappeared under the railway tracks, in the form of sleepers. In the 1930s, under the influence of the British, the then maharaja of …
The story of Arvari's revival is the story of the 70 villages in its 503-sq km watershed. Trailing the 45-km river is a journey back in time. As the river slices through lush green fields, the villagers constantly recall its past: "It was dead, like the skeleton of a 100-year-old …
the image of the Indian rural woman is changing. No more the stereotyped demure wife, she is searching for her own identity and cautiously trying to come out of the shadows of the patriarchs in her family. The rural women of Vidisha district in Madhya Pradesh are also a part …
Ask anyone in the 650 villages in Alwar where tbs has worked in the past 13 years. The story of the later part of this century will follow the same course. Lack of vegetation led to land degradation. Monsoon run-off washed away the top soil. Crops failed regularly and agriculture …
The Supreme Court (SC) ruled that the establishment of industrial townships in areas belonging to village panchayats was in accordance with the Constitution. The 73rd and 74th Constitution amendments dealing with panchayats and municipalities were not in conflict with the declaration of villages as industrial townships, the judgement said. The …
IN THE first week of December 1998, about 3,000 tonnes of industrial materials from Taiwan were dumped in Sihanoukville, a village in Cambodia. The villagers, who were unaware of the toxic nature of the dump, were thrilled with the contents. It contained cement-like materials in white plastic sacks which could …
Leptospirosis, a disease transmitted by rat urine, has claimed at least 22 lives in rural Thailand and made hundreds sick. Leptospirosis, otherwise known as Weil's disease, has centred on the northern province of Prae and the northeastern province of Surin, said health officials. An official in the Surin province of …
IT WAS unexpected. A sudden increase in tribal voter turnout and the impact of Panchayati Raj programmes swung the scale in favour of the Congress in Madhya Pradesh's (mp's) Legislative Assembly elections. Vikram Verma, opposition leader in the last mp Assembly, was projected as the next chief minister (cm). Digvijay …
EDUCATION GUARANTEE SCHEME It was launched on January 1, 1997, under the Rajiv Gandhi Prathmik Shiksha Mission. Any village in the state that does not have a primary school within a radius of I km is guaranteed a school within 90 days of applying. The criteria is that there should …
The media has hailed Digvijay Singh's victory but it is spreading another myth because it is ignorant about rural problems: that Digvijay Singh strengthened the Panchayatl Rai system. On the contrary, in many cases, Singh strengthened the people directly over and above the elected sarpanches. This increased the accountability of …
You hold three things responsible for your election victory: price rise, poor performance of the BJP government at the Centre, and devolution of power to the people in MP. How much did the third factor contribute? Though it is difficult to assess, it definitely contributed in a very substantial way. …
LIKE the blades of grass which grew silently to clothe the brown hills of Jhabua, the hold of the Congress party strengthened unnoticed in the state of Madhya Pradesh (MP). Even as the grass imparted strength to the denuded slopes, so did the Congress grow in strength. The party in …
JETHU RAM looks jaded and tired. But at the ripe old age of 87, he is definitely not a man out of sync with the times. In fact he is far ahead of the times.Twenty-five years ago when his village Sukhomajri, in Haryana"s Punchkula district, had neither water nor trees …
