Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Bharatiya Kisan Union Purwa through its Secretary Vs Union of India Ministry of Jal Shakti & Others dated 07/03/2025. The grievance of the applicant is that railway bridge between Daraganj and Jhunsi is being constructed on the flood plains of …
The dispute between the irrigation departments of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh over the construction of a check dam in the Chhachhroli area to prevent Yamuna waters from entering villages of this district during the rains was resolved today. It was mutually decided by the Chief Engineer Irrigation, Panchkula, and the …
The threat perception of scarcity and unjust distribution of water-a finite, pre-eminent natural resource-has made its relationship with conflict. It is an area of continued interest and debate in both the policy literature and popular press at the international level. In India too, the states are in conflict with each …
The Prime Minister has unveiled the National Action Plan for Climate Change on 30-06-2008 wherein eight missions including National Water Mission were launched. This Report is formed for the Sub-committee on Policy and Institutional Framework as established by the High Level Steering Committee of the National Water Mission headed by …
The major objectives of this policy are to: adopt integrated and multi-sectoral approach for planning, development and management of water resources; consider micro watersheds as the basic unit for the conservation and optimal utilization of water resources for achieving resources sustainability; integrate the problems and prospects of water resource systems …
The National Water Development Agency (NWDA) was set up in 1982 as an autonomous society under Ministry of Water Resources to give concrete shape to these proposals by carrying out the detailed studies, surveys and investigation work and to prepare feasibility reports of the links under the National Perspective Plan. …
In 1998, Karnataka agreed to abide by the conditions imposed by the Union Water Resources Ministry if Tamil Nadu withdrew its objections to Cauvery water being used to augment supply to Bangalore, according to the minutes of a meeting convened by the Union Secretary (Water Resources) and attended by officers …
Actor Rajnikanth on Friday blasted senior political leaders of Karnataka for politicising the Hogenakal row, and called on Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi to nip the issue in the bud lest it went theRajnikanth Cauvery way. The entire Tamil film industry, including artistes of Kannada origin, observed a token …
Friday fury over the controversial Hogenakal project had a filmi twist. The stars literally came down to the streets, as artistes attached to the Kannada film industry converged to protest under the banner of the Karnataka Chalanachitra Udhyama Sangha. The stars and their fans had a common cause to fight …
Governance of Water: Institutional Alternatives and Political Economy is a timely, relevant book that makes a case for reforming water governance in India through not only re-orientating policy priorities and approaches, but also restructuring the institutional framework away from the state and village dichotomy. The book argues that a possible …
Water conflicts in India have now percolated to every level. They are aggravated by the relative paucity of frameworks, policies and mechanisms to govern the use of water resources. This book brings together an impressive sixty-three case studies summarized status of the conflicts, the issues involved and their current position …
A fter nearly two years of arbitration, the contentious Baglihar power project over the Chenab river in Jammu and Kashmir's Doda district has been given the green light. The World Bank's neutral expert submitted his final verdict clearing the project on February 12, at Berne, Switzerland. The hydel project
An agitational approach to river disputes only prolongs them Disputes of river waters are almost as perennial as the rivers themselves. Wars have been fought over water since the dawn of human history, and disputes have raged between states for centuries over the sharing of river waters. It is not …
though the verdict on the Cauvery water dispute was pronounced on February 5, 2007, it has failed to reach a lasting consensus. The Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal (cwdt) took 16 years to come up with the final plan for sharing of Cauvery water between Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Puducherry. …
THE longstanding controversy over the Mullaperiyar dam on the river Periyar assumed bitter proportions in December 2006 with the Kerala government accusing its Tamil Nadu counterpart of pulling out of talks initiated by the Union minister of water resources, Saifudin Soz. The talks had begun on September 25 after directives …
inter-state water conflicts have become the stock-in-trade of Indian politics. They are easy matter for politicians and technocrats to milk. The disputes most often end up in the Supreme Court with an uneasy imbroglio making matters easy for politicking. The kafuffle over the century old Mullaperiyar dam on the river …
This book is about the politics of water resource development management in India, with special reference to the Narmada river water dispute. The author draws on a wealth of studies on Narmada as also his own research to analyse the controversy from the perspective of a political scientists. Given the …
the recent decision of Karnataka State Cabinet to go ahead with the Khalsa-Bandhura project on river Mhadei and the subsequent laying down of the foundation stone on September 22 at Kanakumbi village in Khanapur taluka of Belgaum district, despite strong protests from the Goa government, has initiated a bitter battle …
on august 7, 2006, the Orissa state legislative assembly unanimously resolved to oppose the Andhra Pradesh government's decision to dam the Godavari river at Polavaram.
