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Water as a community asset

Since 1991, Hirve Bazaar, a village in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district has been self-sufficient in foodgrains though it gets no more than 450 mm of rainfall annually. It also produces 400 to 450

Publication Date: 
19/04/2000
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Dams, Irrigation
Land

A disaster in waiting

Publication Date: 
30/11/1999
Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
Tags:
Dams, Irrigation
Land

Land Acquisition Act

Land acquisition legislation in force today is a relic of the colonial era when the wishes of landowners could be ignored. Governments of independent India continued the practice

Publication Date: 
19/06/1999
Mohammed Asif
Economic and Political Weekly
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Land, Land Resources, Land Acquisition, Land Act 1894, Conflicts, India, Infrastructure Development
Land

Pesticide stocks are at time bomb, says FAO

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned that huge stocks of dangerous and unsued pesticides in Africa and the Near East would be a "time bomb" threatening humans and the environment,

Publication Date: 
27/05/1999
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Land

Directives for proper rehabilitation of displaced

The Narmada Valley Development Minister, Dr Vijay Laxmi Sadho has given directives for speedy and proper rehabilitation of project displaced prsons. Dr Sadho was reviewing progress of the schemes of

Publication Date: 
11/12/1998
Tags:
Dams, Irrigation
Land

 Operation salvage

THE race to save the depleting ozone layer may yet be won. Scientists belonging to the Yale University in New Haven, us, announced recently that they have discovered a new method by

Publication Date: 
28/02/1996
Down to Earth
Tags:
Atmosphere, Ozone Layer, United States Of America (US)
Land

The Land Acquisition Act, 1894

This Act may be called the Land Acquisition Act, 1894. It extends to the whole of India except (the state of Jammu and Kashmir). It shall come into force on the first day of March 1894.

Publication Date: 
01/09/1985
Ministry of Law and Justice
Tags:
Land Acquisition, Land Act 1894, Government Of India (GOI), India
Land

The Land Acquisition (Himachal Pradesh Amendment) Act, 1979

An Act to amend the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (Act No.1 of 1894) in its application to the state of Himachal Pradesh. This act may be called the Land Acquisition (Himachal Pradesh Amendment) Act, 1979.

Publication Date: 
01/01/1979
Government of Himachal Pradesh
Tags:
Land Acquisition, Himachal Pradesh, Land Act 1894

Encroached area of Kolonnawa Marshland

Residential area built on part of the Kolonnawa marshland, Sri Lanka. Colombo’s marshes cannot avert floods the way they used to. Construction is to be blamed

Tags:
Sri Lanka, Land Encroachments, South Asia, Land

Land Degradation

Land Degradation

Land Degradation

Land is the most vital and heavily threatened natural resource in Sri Lanka. Degradation of land due to soil erosion is of much concern because of its consequences on agriculture, which is a major contributor to the country's GDP. It is estimated that about 5-10 mm of topsoil is lost every year.

Tags:
Sri Lanka, South Asia, Land Degradation, Land

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