Bihar

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

India

Court curbs Ganga polluters in Bihar, Bengal

Sugar and paper mills in Bihar and tanneries in West Bengal have been penalised by the Supreme Court for continuing to discharge untreated waste into the Ganga and its tributaries.

Publication Date:

14/06/1993

Author(s): Uday Shankar

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Pollution Control, River Pollution, Leather Industry, Ganga, India, Bihar

India

Rightful dues

Even as the state government continues to accuse Tata Iron & Steel Company (TISCO) of unchecked deforestation around Jamshedpur, it has also locked horns with TISCO over riparian rights in the

Publication Date:

14/06/1993

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Rivers, Deforestation, India, Bihar

India