Environment

Best methodologies being followed in waste treatment system in BGPPL, Kamalapuram to emerge as an eco-friendly mill

BGPPL Unit: Kamalapuram is one of the best unit in South India for manufacturings Dissolving Grade pulp with annual capacity of 98000 TPA, supplying to textile industries. This unit is located in Kamalapuram of Warangal in Andhra Pradesh. This unit has latest state of the art of equipments and entire plant is controlled through DCS (Distributed Control System).

Publication Date: 
01/01/2009
K. Ramesh, A. Sadasiva Reddy, K. Vijaya Rao & et al
IPPTA
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Agroforestry, Water Conservation, Paper and Pulp Industry, Industrial Waste Treatment, Wastewater Recycling, Industrial Forests, Waste Treatment, Industry, Green Rating Projects - CSE, Andhra Pradesh, Warangal (D), Environment Management
Natural Disasters

Stemming the tide: relief, reconstruction and development in coastal Andhra Pradesh

This document presents the three-year Andhra Pradesh Relief to Development project which aimed to improve the capacity of target communities to better manage in times of disaster. This project took place in the immediate aftermath of the tsunami, in December 2004, to restore the livelihoods of affected communities.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2009
Aga Khan Development Network
Tags:
Tsunami, Disaster Management, Disaster Preparedness, Women, Children, Community Groups, Andhra Pradesh
Economy

Illuminating lives

The Government of Andhra Pradesh established the Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP), in the year 2000, to bring light into the lives of the rural poor. It implements two poverty reduction projects with an amount of Rs. 2000 crores. SERP's current programmes reach year by 80 lakh households of Andhra Pradesh. It is the single largest rural development programme run by government.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2009
T. Vijay Kumar
Transforming India
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Agriculture, Dairy Development, Food Prices, Economy, Tribals, Women, Rural Development, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), UNDP, Andhra Pradesh, Food Security, Rural Poverty
Wildlife

Captive elephants of temples of India

Temples have a long history and tradition of keeping elephants. Some temples keep elephants as they have a significance associated with a specific deity. However, the

Publication Date: 
01/01/2009
Surendra Varma, S. R. Sujata, M.C. Sathyanarayana & et al
Asian Nature Conservation Foundation
Tags:
Elephant, Religious Places, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, India, Animal Cruelty
Energy

Analysis of biomass tariff

Ministry of New and Renewable Energy had taken the initiatives to develop grid connected power plants from renewable sources. Power from renewables is infirm depending on the vagaries of seasonal changes. Major thrust areas of grid connected power were biomass, bagasse based cogeneration, small hydro and wind.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2009
L. Prabhakar
IREDA News
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Energy, Energy Policy, Biomass, India, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Andhra Pradesh, Crop Residues, Renewable Energy
Wildlife

The land birds of Sriharikota Island, Southern India and conservation issues

Surveys, censuses and mist-netting were carried out during 1976-1977, 1990-1994 and 2001-2008 to enumerate the land birds of Sriharikota Island, Southern India. A total of 125 species of land birds were recorded comprising of 70 residents, 33 winter migrants and 12 seasonal migrants; the status of another 10 species is uncertain.

Publication Date: 
31/12/2008
Ranjit Manakadan, Prakash Rao, K. K. Mohapatra & et al
Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society
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Tags:
Birds, Islands, Endangered Species, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Wildlife, Census/ Habitat Monitoring
Agriculture

 Market hand

Andhra organic policy not for farmers ANDHRA PRADESH"S soon-to-be-finalized policy on organic farming has set off fears that rather than bringing down the cost of cultivation and making organic crops available at local level, it may end up making farmers market-dependent. Farmers

Publication Date: 
30/12/2008
Savvy Soumya Misra
Down to Earth
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Agriculture, Organic Farming, Farmers, Andhra Pradesh
Fisheries

 Shrimp does not pay

It was a profitable venture in the the 1980s and 1990s. But shrimp farming, the livelihood of many in the Sunderbans, has hit a terrible low. MAUREEN NANDINI MITRA finds out why Squatting on the slippery, clay-covered jetty, her thin cotton saree dripping wet, Meena Sahu, scoops water out of her bucket with a broken clam shell, transfers it to a white enamelled iron bowl and counts the fine,

Publication Date: 
30/12/2008
MAUREEN NANDINI MITRA
Down to Earth
Tags:
Sundarbans, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Fisheries, Aquaculture, Trade, Exports, Unemployment, Supreme Court, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa (Odisha), West Bengal
Economy

Rs 25 lakh fraud at NREGS

The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has become a money spinner for officials, middlemen and employees.

According to sources, the mandal parishad development officer (MPDO), technical assistant, field assistants and middlemen siphoned off nearly Rs 25 lakh during the implementation of the NREGS scheme in Chinnamandem mandal of Kadapa district.

Publication Date: 
30/12/2008
Deccan Chronicle (Hyderabad)
Tags:
Economy, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Andhra Pradesh, Corruption
Land

AP farmers protest against SEZ; Patkar lends support

The paddy-rich coastal Andhra region is turning into a new battleground for anti-special economic zone movement.

The ongoing agitation by farmers against the proposed multi-purpose SEZ near the port city of Kakinada has received a major boost with Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) leader Medha Patkar throwing her weight behind the movement.

Publication Date: 
28/12/2008
Suresh Dharur
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
Land Acquisition, Farmers, Special Economic Zones (SEZ), Andhra Pradesh, East Godavari, Kakinada

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