Bihar

Tusker travails

Last year, when a herd of elephants from the Purulia forests of Bihar made its annual trek to greener areas in the Bankura and Medinipur districts of West Bengal, it strayed close to Calcutta,

Publication Date:

14/12/1994

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Elephant, India, Bihar

India

The pitfalls of protection

To save their forests from degradation, villagers will have to deal tactfully with the host of conflicts that sprout out of the field of good intentions

Publication Date:

29/11/1994

Author(s): Sudeep Mukhia

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

3

Issue:

19941130

pp:

0

Tags:

Forest Conservation, Public Participation, India, Bihar, Orissa (Odisha)

India

Saving to survive

Impending doom has prompted villagers in Bihar and Orissa to protect their forests from natural calamities. And humans

Publication Date:

14/11/1994

Author(s): Sudeep Mukhia

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

3

Issue:

19941115

pp:

0

Tags:

Afforestation, Public Participation, India, Bihar, Orissa (Odisha)

Biodiversity

Biodiversity conservation through ecodevelopment

This indicative plan has based on the work of field/park directors and their colleagues in the eight protected areas, and of various non-governmental organisations involved in carrying out PRA in the proposed project area.

Publication Date:

Oct 1994

Source: Indian Institute of Public Administration

Tags:

Pench TR, Gir NP, Palamau NP, Periyar NP, Ranthambore NP, Simlipal NP, Buxa SA, Nagarahole NP, Biodiversity, Bihar, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa (Odisha), Rajasthan, West Bengal

India

Flooded out

The cash-strapped Bihar government has plugged funds meant for the Jawahar Rozgar Yojana (JRY) for flood control measures. The state's rural development department has asked the district magistrates

Publication Date:

30/07/1994

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Flood Control, India, Bihar

India

Loose cannons

When the army and the government team up to form an assault team against villagers protesting against a firing range, all hell can break loose

Publication Date:

14/06/1994

Author(s): Ratnakar Tripathy

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

3

Issue:

19940615

pp:

0

Tags:

Tribals, India, Bihar

India

Understanding Adivasis

Tapan Bose's Jharkhand, 10 years in the making, has a participative view of the timeless, unspoilt lives of Adivasis stripped of their land

Publication Date:

14/04/1994

Author(s): Sevanti Ninan

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

2

Issue:

19940415

pp:

0

Tags:

Tribals, India, Bihar

Industry

Spirited ruin of a village

Effluents from a liquor factory in Banka district spell doom for many villages around the unit and also pollute the Ganga.

Publication Date:

14/11/1993

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

2

Issue:

19931115

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment, Ganga, Industry, Bihar, River Pollution

India

No headlines, no rehabilitation

Oustees of the Kutku and Auranga dams in Bihar complain media attention is the only way of getting justice from the government, but the media devotes its ink only to big money projects

Publication Date:

29/09/1993

Author(s): Shailendra Kumar

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

2

Issue:

19930930

pp:

0

Tags:

Dams, Displacement, Rehabilitation, Compensation, Unemployment, Media, Bihar

Water Resources

The embankment war

If the mid-August assault on some officials of the Bihar water resources department, on an inspection tour of the eastern Kosi embankment in Saharsa, is anything to go by, flood control officials in

Publication Date:

29/09/1993

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Water Resources, Floods, Flood Control, Bihar