India

 New rice varieties flourish in deep waters

New varieties of rice that can be grown in flood hit areas are producing higher yields. Combined with other crops, they can give the farmer a better deal.

Publication Date: 
14/10/1992
Down to Earth
Tags:
Agricultural Research, Seeds, Rice, India, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Crops
India

 Contemplating the tradition of protest

Susana Devalle's monograph, with culture and protest in Jharkhand as the backdrop and not the main focus, is a welcome departure from run-of-the-mill accounts of ethnic movements. Her attempt to

Publication Date: 
29/09/1992
B K Royburman
Down to Earth
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Tribals, India, Bihar
India

 I will not work for any company, big or small

Until recently, 14 year old Daham was just another child carpet weaver. When he left his Bihar village to find work in UP's Mirzapur district, he hoped he could get some odhna kapda clothes and winterwear for himself and help make life a little easier f

Publication Date: 
14/09/1992
Uday Shankar
Down to Earth
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Child Labour, Industry, India, Bihar
Wildlife

 More hard facts and much less syrup, please

A look at two documentaries on local resistance to the Suvarnarekha dam project in Bihar and the Sardar Sarovar dam that dwell too much on the picturesque and not enough on the reality.

Publication Date: 
30/08/1992
Sevanti Ninan
Down to Earth
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Subarnarekha, Narmada Valley Project, Bihar
India

 Anti Chandil dam activists challenge Land Acquisition Act

YET ANOTHER World Bank-funded dam project is under fire. The Visthapiti Mukti Vahini (VMV) has challenged the rehabilitation of people displaced by the Chandil dam on the Suvarnarekha river in

Publication Date: 
14/08/1992
Down to Earth
Tags:
Development, Rehabilitation, India, Bihar
India

 The decline of sacred groves

The British perceived these valuable community resources as a "wasteful system"

Publication Date: 
30/07/1992
Down to Earth
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Ecology, Wasteland Development, Rural Development, Economic Development, India, Bihar
India

 Statehood first, ecology later

Jharkhand"s leaders have successfully pressurised the Centre to consider granting autonomy to this region. But they have still not addressed themselves to local ecological problems

Publication Date: 
14/06/1992
Amit Mitra
Down to Earth
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Ecology, Hydroelectricity, Displacement, India, Bihar
India

 Ravaged region

JHARKHAND stretches from Bankura district in West Bengal to Surguja in Madhya Pradesh; and from Santhal Parganas of Bihar to Sambhalpur in Orissa. Approximately 1,87,646 sq km in area,

Publication Date: 
14/06/1992
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Ecology, Hydroelectricity, Displacement, India, Bihar
India

 'We can rule ourselves'

RAGHUNATHPUR is a large village of 350 households in the Chanho block of Ranchi district. It lies 55 km from Ranchi on the road to Lohardagga. Though Oraons comprise the majority of

Publication Date: 
14/06/1992
Down to Earth
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Ecology, Hydroelectricity, Displacement, India, Bihar
Natural Disasters

The state of India's environment - floods, flood plains and environmental myths

This report remains one of the few chronicles of the ecological change taking place in the Indo-Gangetic plains - India's most densely populated area. Focussing on the recurrent problem of floods in this region and describes the nature of challenge posed by ecologically sound development and suggests new ways of looking at policies.

Publication Date: 
Dec 1990
Anil Agarwal, Sunita Narain
Centre for Science and Environment
Tags:
Environment, Teesta, Deforestation, Floods, Flood Control, India, Assam, Bihar, Garhwal, Himalaya

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