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Industry

 What goes down must come up

It is a crime. Numerous factories deliberately inject untreated effluents directly into the ground, contaminating underground aquifers. Down To Earth got samples

Publication Date: 
30/08/1999
Down to Earth
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19990831
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Tags:
Groundwater Pollution, Groundwater, Wells, Heavy Metals, Arsenic, Health Effects, Waste Disposal, Industry, Governance, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana, Corruption
Industry

 Anna vindicated

The anti corruption department raids the houses of a former Maharashtra minister, who put social activist Anna Hazare behind bars for accusing him of corruption

Publication Date: 
30/07/1999
Down to Earth
Tags:
Governance, Personalities, Maharashtra, Corruption
Environment

The state of India's environment: the fifth citizens' report - part I: national overview

This book presents a national overview of the startling array of challenges faced by India - including pollution and waste generation. The book demonstrates how all natural resources, from land and forests to water and biodiversity, are under immense pressure and in turn, compounded poverty. Rapid industrial, agricultural and urban development has led to alarming and ever-growing levels of pollution. The solution lies in good governance and the application of appropriate technological and management solutions as the nation inches towards higher rates of economic growth and social development.

Publication Date: 
Dec 1998
Anil Agarwal, Sunita Narain, Srabani Sen
Centre for Science and Environment
Tags:
Environment, Land Resources, Water Resources, Dams, Atmosphere, Health, Habitat, People, Energy, Governance And Institutions, Corruption, Forests
Environment

 Bribing medics

THE president and two senior officials from Otsuka Pharmaceutical, a Japanese drugs firm, have been arrested on suspicion of bribing a university medical professor to provide training courses.

Publication Date: 
30/12/1998
Down to Earth
Tags:
Drug Industry, Japan, Corruption
India

 Anna to campaign

A PEOPLE'S march demanding the right to information will be taken out from Pune in Maharashtra to Delhi, according to Gandhian activist Anna Hazare. This is for the first time that such a

Publication Date: 
30/12/1998
Down to Earth
Tags:
Human Rights, Pune (D), Corruption
Air Pollution

 A peoples charter...

... for clean air

Publication Date: 
29/11/1998
Down to Earth
Tags:
Air Pollution, Government Of India (GOI), CSE, Delhi, Corruption
Environment

 The Root Of All Evil

Laws meant to protect the forests are doing exactly the opposite. Funds for afforestation programmes are pocketed by the corrupt and land remains denuded in the process

Publication Date: 
30/10/1998
Down to Earth
7
19981031
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Tags:
Environment, Deforestation, Wildlife Trade, Legislation, Corruption, Pollution Control
Environment

 The Method Behind The Madness

When the official system learns to loot the official treasury, it also targets the natural estate, the biggest property of the modern state. Good environmental management demands effective regulation to bring about a balance between environment and develo

Publication Date: 
30/10/1998
Down to Earth
7
19981031
0
Tags:
Environment, Deforestation, Wildlife Trade, Legislation, Corruption, Pollution Control
Economy

 In support of Hazare

Politicians, social activists and non governmental organisations rally behind Anna Hazare

Publication Date: 
14/10/1998
Manish Tewari
Down to Earth
Tags:
Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Political Parties, NGO, Maharashtra, Corruption
India

 STOP PRESS

At the time of going to press, Anna Hazare was released from jail. The Maharashtra government ordered his release after Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray wrote in the Sena mouthpiece, Saamna, that the

Publication Date: 
14/10/1998
Down to Earth
Tags:
Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Political Parties, NGO, Maharashtra, Corruption

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