Problem: Tourist influx too large; earnings flow downhill; Status: Residents forced to share meagre facilities with tourists; Challenge: Regulate tourist flow; channelise funds for devel

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Problem: Terrain forbids sprawl as in cities in the plains; Status: Alarming population density people per sq km ; Challenge: Policy question is: decongest, but how?

Farmers say no to Ranbaxy expansion plans

The right-to-food campaign gets a fillip with the Common Minimum Programme of the new government incorporating far-reaching commitments on food security and the evolving constitutional doctrine tha

In Himachal Pradesh s Kullu district is the Great Himalayan National Park. An eco development project meant to benefit people of Tirthan and Sainj two valleys that bound the park began in 1994. The project was scrapped in 1999. Some from Sainj valle

high-smoking zone: The number of smokers in Himachal Pradesh (HP) is alarmingly high. This despite the state having the second highest literacy rate in the country. Forty-five per cent of HP's

Debris flow is a natural occurence. Environment friendly town planning can reduce its impact on human settlements

hc cracks whip: Reprimanding the state-level committee over its inability to find zones for stone-crushers, the Himachal Pradesh High Court has ordered the closure of all such units. The owners of

For denotifying forestland

On August 1, 2003, Madhya Pradesh made a plea in the Supreme Court seeking a fund generating mechanism for forest protection. Earlier, in June, Himachal Pradesh and Arunachal Pradesh asked the Union government to provide them annual reimbursement amountin

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