India

 Republic quaked

Gujarat is paying a heavy price for a calamity that is by far the biggest government made disaster since Independence. As the state crawls out from a landscape of debris, it appears as the most imposing symbol of a system that is in comatose, though not d

Publication Date: 
27/02/2001
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Monuments, Natural Disasters, Earthquakes, Disaster Management, Disaster Preparedness, Disaster Housing, Building Technology, Construction Industry, Governance, India, Delhi, Gujarat, Bhuj
India

 No signs of science

D eath and earthquakes do not come by appointment. However, an earth

Publication Date: 
27/02/2001
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Monuments, Natural Disasters, Earthquakes, Disaster Management, Disaster Preparedness, Disaster Housing, Building Technology, Construction Industry, Governance, India, Delhi, Gujarat, Bhuj
India

 Shaky business

A deadly nexus between government officials and builders reduce most of Gujarat s homes to rubbles

Publication Date: 
27/02/2001
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Monuments, Natural Disasters, Earthquakes, Disaster Management, Disaster Preparedness, Disaster Housing, Building Technology, Construction Industry, Governance, India, Delhi, Gujarat, Bhuj
Industry

 Shifting focus

the World Bank ( wb ) has decided to stop investing in common effluent treatment plants ( cetp s) in Gujarat. Instead, it will assist in adoption of cleaner production technologies that

Publication Date: 
14/12/2000
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Pollution Control, Aid, Industry, World Bank, Gujarat, Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP)
Sanitation

 The curse of poor sanitation

A bacterial disease kills 42 people in India

Publication Date: 
14/09/2000
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Health Effects, Sanitation, Epidemics, Delhi, Gujarat, Mumbai, Diseases
Industry

 Industry at any cost

Industrial estates of Gujarat are cesspools of filth and environmental health hazards. Yet the government is blindly promoting industry

Publication Date: 
14/04/2000
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River Pollution, Health Effects, Waste Disposal, Industry, NGO, Gujarat
Industry

 Western tragedy

Eerie silence is all that is countering environmental pollution

Publication Date: 
14/04/2000
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River Pollution, Waste Disposal, Industry, Gujarat, Maharashtra
Industry

 Falling on deaf ears

the system of public hearing is turning out to be a farce in Gujarat. In 1994, the Union ministry of environment and forests made Environmental Public Hearing mandatory for 29 industries listed

Publication Date: 
30/03/2000
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Industry, Environment Act 1986, Gujarat
India

 FOLLOW UP

An increasing number of studies and reports are indicting the Gujarat government for letting off polluting industries lightly. A recently-released report by the Indian People's Tribunal ( ipt )

Publication Date: 
14/03/2000
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Pollution, Health Effects, Chemical Industry, Governance, NGO, Gujarat, Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP)
Industry

 Milk waste

A new filter reduces effluents from diary industries and also produces biogass

Publication Date: 
14/03/2000
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Waste Treatment, Biogas, Industry, Technology, Gujarat

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