India

 Restricted access

INDIA'S entire geography has been covered by aerial photography, but development agencies and town planners cannot use the data because of national security regulations. "Even archival maps are not

Publication Date: 
14/12/1992
Down to Earth
Tags:
Development, Urban Planning
India

 Maidan in trouble

CALCUTTA maidan -- at 294-ha, the largest public ground in the teeming metropolis, is in danger of being developed as commercial property by the Indian army. The maidan belongs to the army's eastern

Publication Date: 
14/12/1992
Down to Earth
Tags:
Development, Urban Habitat, Urbanisation, India, Calcutta (D)
India

 Stretching arguments to point of absurdity

CRITICISING or condemning lopsided developmental priorities and highlighting their consequences is one thing; outright rejection of the very concept of development, science and technology is quite

Publication Date: 
29/11/1992
R Ramachandran
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Development, Conflicts, Traditional Knowledge, Science
India

 Must a civilisation destroy to preserve itself?

India still has the option to preserve the poem within and the tree outside.

Publication Date: 
30/08/1992
Nirmal Verma
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Development, India
Biodiversity

 A case of computer breakdown?

IF ONE were to pick a single product to represent the tremendous technological progress in the second half of this century, it would certainly be the computer. In few fields has progress been so

Publication Date: 
14/08/1992
Kiran Karnik
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Development, Technology, Computers
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

 Looking beyond the Himalaya

IN A RADICAL departure from earlier policy, the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) will now look beyond the Hindu Kush region and establish links to study other

Publication Date: 
14/08/1992
Down to Earth
Tags:
Mountains, Himalaya, Development, India
India

 Did Riocentro learn anything from Flamengo park?

While heads of state deliberated on the future of the world at the Riocentro, social activists and NGOs expressed their sense of frustration over the dominant paradigm of development. They represented sharply differing perspectives

Publication Date: 
14/07/1992
Rajesh Tandon
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Rio Summit, Development, NGO, Developing Countries
Environment

 Stockholm and Rio: Bigger, but was it better?

Stockholm wasn't as big as Rio, but I think it had a soul. I expect Rio's soul was there too, somewhere

Publication Date: 
14/07/1992
Jon Tinker
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Environment, Development, UN, NGO, Agenda 21, Rio Summit
Environment

 High court grants round one to railways

A high court order in favour of the Konkan railway corporation has provoked much anger and resentment among those who oppose the controversial project

Publication Date: 
29/06/1992
Anumita Roychowdhury
Down to Earth
Tags:
Development, Rail Transport, Goa

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