Andhra Pradesh

Water quality: Pollution through aqua culture

After the richer locals leased land/water from the poor cooperatives in the 1970s in Kolleru in Andhra Pradesh, the land has remained in the name of poor "beneficiaries", while the real fisherfolk work on meagre wages.

Publication Date:

18/02/2006

Author(s): J Rama Rao, Jasveen Jairath, P Umesh

Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Vol:

41

Issue:

7

pp:

585

Tags:

Water Pollution, Lake Pollution, Wetlands, Water Resources, Lakes, Kolleru SA, Water Quality, Aquaculture, Fisherfolk, Wetland Conservation, High Court, Cooperatives, Andhra Pradesh

India

Good beginning

Environmental Education

Publication Date:

14/02/2006

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Environment Education, India, Andhra Pradesh

India

Monopoly skins

AP s fight against Monsanto

Publication Date:

30/01/2006

Author(s): S Ramakrishna

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Cotton, Technology, Genetic Engineering, India, Andhra Pradesh

Energy

On the uranium trail

The Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research is enthused by the discovery of uranium at Wakhyn in Meghalaya and the permission to prospect in the Rajiv Gandhi Tiger Sanctuary.

Publication Date:

13/01/2006

Source: Frontline (Chennai)

Tags:

Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Supreme Court, Uranium, Andhra Pradesh, Nalgonda (D), Cuddapah (D), Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), Uranium Corporation Of India Ltd (UCIL), Nuclear Power

Dams/ Irrigation

India's dam shame: why polavaram dam must not be built

Polavaram dam is an extravagant waste of public money that will provide little benefit to few people. It will set the state of Andhra Pradesh back for decades and may prevent Andhra Pradesh sharing in the economic prosperity experienced by the rest of India. This booklet argues that the Polavaram dam project should not go ahead because it will not deliver the benefits claimed for its, because it represents an extraordinary waste of public money, and it will have disastrous consequences for the people it displaces.

Publication Date:

Jan 2006

Author(s): Tony Stewart, V Rukmini Rao

Source: Gramya Resource Centre for Women

Tags:

Dams, Polavaram, Irrigation, Displacement, Andhra Pradesh, River Linking, River Basin

Dams/ Irrigation

India's dam shame: why polavaram dam must not be built

Polavaram dam is an extravagant waste of public money that will provide little benefit to few people. It will set the state of Andhra Pradesh back for decades and may prevent Andhra Pradesh sharing in the economic prosperity experienced by the rest of India. This booklet argues that the Polavaram dam project should not go ahead because it will not deliver the benefits claimed for its, because it represents an extraordinary waste of public money, and it will have disastrous consequences for the people it displaces.

Publication Date:

Jan 2006

Author(s): Tony Stewart, V Rukmini Rao

Source: Gramya Resource Centre for Women

Tags:

Dams, Polavaram, Irrigation, Displacement, Andhra Pradesh, River Linking, River Basin

Environment

Public pressure

Rehabilitation package for Polavaram modified

Publication Date:

30/12/2005

Author(s): Ramakrishna Sangem

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Godavari, Dams, Rehabilitation, NGO, Andhra Pradesh

India

Smuggling racket

A large scale timber-smuggling racket operating from Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu has come to light with the seizure of 180 tonnes of red sander wood by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (dri)

Publication Date:

30/12/2005

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

14

Issue:

20051231

pp:

0

Tags:

Endangered Species, Timber Industry, India, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu

India