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Jatropha biodiesel: Key to attainment of sustainable rural bioenergy regime in India

fiscal deficit. Diesel, the largest consumed petro-product in India is
also largely used in rural areas for agricultural purposes as well as meeting other energy needs. Cheaply available kerosene is being mixed with diesel and used in place of pure diesel. This is not only causing misuse of subsidized kerosene, damage to plant and machinery using it but also

Publication Date: 
01/03/2011
Sunil Kumar, Shashi K. Jain, Alok Chaube
Archives of Applied Science Research
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Biodiesel, Rural Energy, India, Biofuel, Energy
Economy

Prescriptions and wishlists

Prime Minister

Publication Date: 
28/02/2011
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Land Acquisition, Energy, Budget, Economy, Infrastructure Development, India
Agriculture

Patterns of rural mechanisation, Energy and employment in South Asia: Reopening the debate

During the 1970s, major policy debates on the role of mechanisation in agricultural and rural development in south Asia took place; by the early 1990s, such debates had largely faded. Yet today, countries such as Bangladesh possess some of the most productive, mechanised and labour-intensive agricultural industries in south Asia.

Publication Date: 
26/02/2011
Stephen Biggs, Scott Justice, David Lewis
Economic and Political Weekly
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Tags:
Energy, South Asia, Agriculture, Rural Development, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Rural Poverty, Agricultural Machines, Green Revolution, Irrigation, Trade, Economic Development
Energy

Social protests block engineering developments

During the last few years, India has been witnessing an unusual development. The country is trying to make progress, which needs the availability of uninterrupted electrical power. This may be obtained from different types of sources such as hydel, thermal, nuclear, tidal or fossil fuel power stations.

Publication Date: 
25/02/2011
Arun Bapat
Current Science
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Tags:
Conflicts, Energy, India, Economic Development, Infrastructure Development, Narmada Valley Project, Electricity, Koyna, Dams, Earthquakes
Energy

Good on paper, but lacking quite a bit on ground

The Rajiv Gandhi Gramin Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) is one flagship programme of the UPA government where the entire budgeted allocation of Rs 33,000 crore has been committed, but the desired result is still elusive.

RGGVY, a component of Bharat Nirman, was launched in April 2005 with a mandate to electrify 100,000 villages and release electricity connections to 2.3 crore rural BPL households i

Publication Date: 
23/02/2011
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Rural Electrification, Energy, Bharat Nirman, Rural Development, India, Statistics
Energy

UK energy giant BP and Reliance in $9-billion deal to explore for oil, gas

In what is being tipped as the largest FDI into India, UK

Publication Date: 
22/02/2011
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Oil Exploration, Natural Gas, Energy, British Petroleum (BP), Petrochemical Industry, India, United Kingdom (UK)
Energy

CEA set to monitor development of UMPPs

The power ministry has asked Central Electricity Authority (CEA) to regularly monitor the implementation of ultra mega power projects (UMPPs), with generation capacity of about 4,000 Mw each.

Publication Date: 
22/02/2011
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Power Industry, Electricity, Energy, India, Jharkhand, Power Transmission, Ministry of Power
Energy

Cairn changed stand on royalty: ONGC

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has said that Cairn never disputed cost recovery of royalty on crude oil production from the Barmer field before August 16, 2010, when Vedanta Resources announced buying of a majority stake in Cairn India.

A senior ONGC executive told Business Standard that his company was willing to pay 100 per cent royalty on the Barmer production but wanted it to be adj

Publication Date: 
22/02/2011
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), Power Industry, Energy, India, Barmer (D)
Energy

Adani inks JV with Carbon Energy to bid for UCG projects

Adani Group today said it has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with an Australia-based firm Carbon Energy to form a joint venture to pursue Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) projects in India.

"The two firms have inked a MoU for a strategic joint venture, where they shall jointly be bidding in tendering process for UGC projects likely to be announced on tenements of Coal India (CIL),

Publication Date: 
19/02/2011
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Energy, India, Coal, Coal India, Australia
Energy

Essar to buy Shell unit for $350m

Essar Energy has agreed to buy Royal Dutch Shell

Publication Date: 
19/02/2011
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Energy, Power Industry, United Kingdom (UK), India, Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL)

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