India

 House made of thermocol

The

Publication Date: 
14/09/2007
Suverchala Kashyap
Down to Earth
Tags:
Earthquakes, Disaster Housing, Earth Quake Proof Housing, Building Materials, Architecture, Waste Conversion, India, Gujarat, Ahmedabad (D)
India

 Banking on self help

Chhotaudepur has devised a successful collective water management system: water banks

Publication Date: 
29/04/2002
Suverchala Kashyap
Down to Earth
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Water Management, Gujarat
Biodiversity

 Rising from the rubble

Gujarat s quake victims are still picking up the pieces

Publication Date: 
30/01/2002
Suverchala Kashyap
Down to Earth
Tags:
Earthquakes, Gujarat, Bhuj
India

 Row over report

Proposed norms on effluent discharge into Narmada tributary questioned

Publication Date: 
30/01/2002
Suverchala Kashyap
Down to Earth
Tags:
River Pollution, Industrial Dispersal, Marine Ecosystems, High Court, India, Gujarat
Environment

 Messiahs to rural folk

A few individuals are trying to bring about changes at the grassroots level through dedicated and sustained work

Publication Date: 
14/04/2001
Suverchala Kashyap
Down to Earth
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Organic Farming, Rural Habitat, Health Care, Health Education, Rural Development, Public Participation, NGO, Gujarat
Transport

 Autumn of a patriarch

Pandurang Shastri Athavale, famous social reformer, turns 80

Publication Date: 
14/02/2001
Suverchala Kashyap
Down to Earth
Tags:
Rural Development, Public Participation, Personalities, Gujarat
India

 Chased off

Pockets of salt manufacturing uits and an army firing range within the Wild Ass Sanctuary i Gujarat are scaring the animals away

Publication Date: 
29/11/1999
Suverchala Kashyap
Down to Earth
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Rann Of Kutch, Shifting Cultivation, Salt Industry, Wild Ass, Sanctuaries, NGO, Gujarat
Environment

 Green drive

From planting trees in his arid homeland to trapping water, this former textile dealer shows the way

Publication Date: 
29/11/1999
Suverchala Kashyap
Down to Earth
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19991130
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Tags:
Water Management, Public Participation, Gujarat
Forests

 Miracle man

Single handedly, 62 year old Shamjibhai Antala brings water to the arid lands of Saurashtra and reprieve to the villagers

Publication Date: 
30/10/1999
Suverchala Kashyap
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Water Harvesting, Water Demand, Public Participation, Personalities, Gujarat, Rainfall
India

 Landfill emissions poison breastmilk

After finding high levels of dioxin related compounds in breast milk of women living near landfills, a Vadodara based non governmental organisation intends to file a public interest litigation PIL against the Gujarat Pollution Control Board and the Vado

Publication Date: 
14/01/2004
Suverchala Kashyap
Down to Earth
Tags:
Pollution, Pollution Control, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Breast Feeding, Dioxin, WHO, NGO, Gujarat, Statistics, Toxins

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