Environment

 Shallow scheme

Drinking water project peppered with flaws

Publication Date: 
30/01/2003
R V Singh
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Management, Water Policy, Rural Water Supply, Governance, Government Of India (GOI), Panchayats, NGO, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal
Energy

 Up in smoke

National programme on improved chulhas put on ice

Publication Date: 
30/01/2003
Richard Mahapatra
Down to Earth
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Air Pollution Control, Health Effects, Forest Conservation, Women, Energy, Chulhas (Cookstoves), Finance, Information, Public Participation, Governance, Government Of India (GOI), Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Sikkim, Statistics, Corruption
India

 Whitewashed by nature

Coke and Pepsi advertisements painted on rocks along the 56-kilometre stretch from Manali to Rohtang Pass will not be scraped for a little while longer. Instead, a sheet of ice will cover the

Publication Date: 
14/01/2003
Down to Earth
Tags:
Ecology, Pollution Control, Advertising, India, Himachal Pradesh
Climate Change

 Ex Chief Minister in the dock

Summons issued in khair wood allotment case in Himachal Pradesh

Publication Date: 
14/12/2002
Baldev S Chauhan
Down to Earth
Tags:
Forest Resources, Timber Smuggling, Himachal Pradesh, Corruption
India

 Trends in high places

Traditional timber and slate houses vs a neo concrete nightmare in a Himachal village

Publication Date: 
14/10/2002
Baldev S Chauhan
Down to Earth
Tags:
Mountains, Building Materials, Architecture, Building Technology, Traditional Knowledge, Tourism, India, Himachal Pradesh
India

 Bond with people

THE POLITICS OF COOPERATIVE FOREST MANAGEMENT Rajeev Ahal . Published by International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development . Kathmandu . 2002 . 71 pages

Publication Date: 
29/09/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Forest Resources, Forest Management, Forest Policy, Himachal Pradesh
Water Resources

 Beating the drought

How some villages stayed afloat even as neighbouring lands parched

Publication Date: 
29/09/2002
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Mining, Water Resources, Water Harvesting, Forest Fires, Monsoons, Drought, Women, Traditional Knowledge, Governance, Himachal Pradesh, Orissa (Odisha), Dehradun
India

 Sudden surge

Finally, hydro power is getting the importance that it deserves in Himachal Pradesh. The state, which boasts of a generation capacity of 25,000 megawatts (mw), had only tapped a fraction of its

Publication Date: 
14/09/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Hydroelectricity, India, Himachal Pradesh
India

 TURN DOWN VOLUME

The Himachal Pradesh High Court has frowned upon the decibel din in the state. Acting on a petition, the court has issued notices to the state chief secretary and the state pollution control board

Publication Date: 
14/07/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Pollution Control, Noise Pollution, Legislation, Environment Act 1986, High Court, Himachal Pradesh
Climate Change

  Ministries play the blame game

JAGDISH BAHADUR, an expert on glaciers and former joint advisor, department of science and technology, and SYED IQBAL HASNAIN , who heads the Glacier Research Group at Jawaharlal Nehru University, criticise India s lack of a positive response to a rece

Publication Date: 
29/06/2002
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Himalaya, Glaciers, Global Warming, Science, Technology, FAO, UNEP, UNESCO, Bhutan, China, Nepal, Himachal Pradesh

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