India

 No takers

When the Karnataka government announced substantial reservation of seats for the "backward and the oppressed classes" in the state's panchayats in 1992, it was welcomed by most experts and analysts.

Publication Date: 
30/01/1994
Down to Earth
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Tribals, Panchayats, India, Karnataka
India

 By the skin of their teeth

Dental students of Bangalore University can now face the prospect of failure with a broad display of teeth. University authorities reportedly granted grace marks to several Bachelor of Dental

Publication Date: 
30/01/1994
Down to Earth
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Education, India, Karnataka
India

 Complementarity begets productivity

ORGANIC farming technologies involve adaptation to local environments. Continuing the series on organic farming See Down To Earth, November 30, 1993 , here are two more examples of such farming technologies. The secret of Karnataka's L Narayana Reddy's s

Publication Date: 
14/12/1993
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Organic Farming, Natural Fertilisers, Pesticides, Biological PC, NGO, India, Karnataka
Industry

 Whre science and tradition join hands

The Gloria Land farm in Pondicherry and another run by a couple in Karnataka, show natural inputs can effectively replace factory produced fertilisers and pesticides.

Publication Date: 
29/11/1993
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Chemical Fertilisers, Natural Fertilisers, Pesticides, Science, Karnataka, Pondicherry
Air Pollution

 When alienation ruins

Sandalwood smuggling, epitomised by Veerappan, has become a collective phenomenon involving entire villages, which even the ban on sandalwood exports has been unable to curb. Deregulation of the sandal tree, currently under state control, is now being deb

Publication Date: 
29/11/1993
Anumita Roychowdhury
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Timber Smuggling, Sandalwood, Rural Habitat, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu
Energy

 Hybirds developed

In a significant breakthrough, the Hyderabad-based Directorate of Rice Research has developed five commercially viable, hybrid rice varieties from indigenous species. Indian Council of Agricultural

Publication Date: 
29/11/1993
Down to Earth
Tags:
Rice, Research, Indian Council Of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Haryana, Karnataka, Punjab
India

 The four pillars of panchayati raj

ABOUT 5,000 gram panchayats in Karnataka will go to the polls on December 16 this year. But some proponents of panchayati raj institutions (PRIs) argue that the 1983 framework for the operation of

Publication Date: 
30/10/1993
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Rural Development, Legislation, India, Karnataka
India

 A question of control

Karnataka's new panchayati raj law has sparked a debate, with the Congress government saying it gives the people more power and opposition politicians contending it does not.

Publication Date: 
30/10/1993
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Rural Development, Legislation, Panchayats, India, Karnataka
India

 Has lifting subsidies depressed fertiliser use?

A survey reveals that while using fertilisers, farmers are seldom guided by their price alone.

Publication Date: 
14/10/1993
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Chemical Fertilisers, Subsidies, Karnataka
Environment

 The grand old man of Kannada

SOME PEOPLE live in years, others in deeds. At 91, Kota Shivarama Karanth has done both. Journalist, litterateur, dramatist, playwright, photographer, politician, environmentalist, householder, tramp he is all these and more. The winner of the prestigi

Publication Date: 
14/10/1993
Kota Shivaramamitra
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Environment, Press, Karnataka, Technology

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