Haryana

Rolling on

Bunga took the sukhomajri story forward The first village to follow Sukhomajri's development model was Bunga, just 30 km away in Haryana's Panchkula district (see timeline: Divergent trajectories).

Publication Date:

14/11/2007

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

16

Issue:

20071115

pp:

0

Tags:

Forests, Fodder, Livestock, Water Conservation, Water Harvesting, Dams, Forest Management, Forest Conservation, Rural Development, Public Participation, Governance, Haryana, Sustainable Development, Statistics

Forests

Now what?

Government must facilitate, not control The experiences of Sukhomajri and Bunga have a lesson: given the right conditions, external and internal, villages can be self-sustaining. But their inherent

Publication Date:

14/11/2007

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

16

Issue:

20071115

pp:

0

Tags:

Forests, Fodder, Livestock, Water Conservation, Water Harvesting, Dams, Forest Management, Forest Conservation, Rural Development, Public Participation, Governance, Haryana, Sustainable Development, Statistics

India

New biomass model may help monitor crop damage, health

india suffers considerable losses due to crop damage every year. assocham has pegged this loss at Rs 140,000 crore for 2006-07. Unfortunately, there is no way to ascertain whether this or similar

Publication Date:

29/09/2007

Author(s): Archita Bhatta

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Agriculture, Agricultural Research, Post Harvest Losses, Biomass, Farmers, Compensation, India, Gujarat, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab

Energy

Centre to popularise CFLs

compact fluorescent lamps (cfls) may become cheaper in India. The Union ministry of power is contemplating a scheme to popularise cfls. Called

Publication Date:

14/07/2007

Author(s): Arnab Pratim Dutta

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Energy Policy, Energy, India, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana

Agriculture

Reliance SEZ in Haryana sanctioned

it's official. The Reliance special economic zone (sez) project in Haryana is on. On June 5, the Board of Approval of sezs, a government body, gave its nod to the sez, which is to come up in 565

Publication Date:

29/06/2007

Author(s): Arnab Pratim Dutta

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Land Resources, Land Ownership, Agriculture, Development, Farmers, Conflicts, India, Haryana, Gurgaon (D)

Agriculture

Up against GM

October 2006

Publication Date:

30/01/2007

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Agriculture, Plant Breeding, Conflicts, Genetic Engineering, India, Haryana, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh

Agriculture

Housing more funds

Warehousing Bill, a double edged sword for farmers

Publication Date:

14/04/2006

Author(s): Sourav Mishra

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Agriculture, Farmers, Finance, Legislation, Haryana, Maharashtra, Punjab

India

Heritage in peril

The Supreme Court recently issued notices to the Union government and the Rajasthan, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh governments in response to a public interest petition. Filed by Neelambar Baba of

Publication Date:

27/02/2006

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

14

Issue:

20060228

pp:

0

Tags:

Mining, India, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh

Agriculture