India

 Selling trees for rotis

THE morning hours in Barapal, near Udaipur, present a curious sight. Hundreds of headloaders crowd around the national highway looking for vehicles to transport charcoal or firewood

Publication Date: 
14/06/1992
Down to Earth
Tags:
Drinking Water Scarcity, Drought, Drought Management, India, Gujarat, Kerala, Maharashtra, Rajasthan
India

 Green and surviving

IT is at a time like this that the famous Ralegan Siddhi village in Ahmednagar district -- the handiwork of a social worker, Anna Hazare -- stands out with a difference. It is green and it

Publication Date: 
14/06/1992
Down to Earth
Tags:
Drinking Water Scarcity, Drought, Drought Management, India, Gujarat, Kerala, Maharashtra, Rajasthan
India

 Women build where others destroy

Why do women who attempt changes in local land use patterns meet with so much hostility?

Publication Date: 
14/06/1992
Madhu Sarin
Down to Earth
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Wastelands, Afforestation, Rural Habitat, Tribals, Women, India, Gujarat
Fisheries

An appraisal of the marine fisheries of Gujarat

Among the maritime states of India, Gujarat, with its 11 maritime districts, namely Kutch, Rajkot, Jamnagar, Junagadh, Amreli.

Publication Date: 
01/09/1987
K. Balan, P. Sivaraman, K. P. George, M. Ramachandran
Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
Tags:
Marine Fisheries, Gujarat, Marine Fisherfolk, Fisheries

Memorandum to PM regarding proposed 6000 MW Mithi Virdi Nuclear Power Plant

Farmers and other villagers affected by the proposed 6000 MW nuclear power plant at village Mithi Virdi in Bhavnagar, Gujarat took out a massive rally on 23 Sep 2013 and presented this memorandum addressed to the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh.

Tags:
Nuclear Power Plants, Bhavnagar (D), Gujarat, Conflicts, Farmers, Nuclear Accidents, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF)
Biodiversity
Gujarat Biodiversity Board
State Biodiversity Board (SBB), Gujarat, India, Biodiversity Conservation
Environment
Gujarat Pollution Control Board
Pollution Control, Gujarat, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB)
Energy
Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission
Energy, Energy Policy, Gujarat, Ahmedabad (D), Government Of India (GOI), Renewable Energy, Solar Energy, Wind Energy
Energy

Tata Power mulls wind energy foray abroad

MumbaiTwo years after it dropped plans to set up wind power capacities in the US and Europe, the R18,854-crore (FY 2010 revenues) Tata Power is again eyeing the US, Spain, Portugal and Germany for a wind energy foray, its first outside India.

Publication Date: 
23/03/2011
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Geothermal Energy, Renewable Energy, Energy, Power Industry, Wind Energy, India, Karnataka, Gujarat
Energy

GAIL, RIL in swap deal for LNG

Pact will ensure smooth supply of gas to power units in Andhra Pradesh

Seeking to end the power woes of Andhra Pradesh and ensuring smooth supply to power plants in the State, GAIL (India) on Thursday entered into a deal with Reliance Industries Ltd.

Publication Date: 
18/03/2011
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Andhra Pradesh, Petrochemical Industry, LPG, Energy, Bharuch, Gujarat

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