Madhya Pradesh

Mughal system stilll supplies water at zero cost

Mughal builders are known the world over for the Taj Mahal. But their water engineers built a supply system in 1615 that still provides water to a Madhya Pradesh town at no cost.

Publication Date:

14/10/1992

Author(s): Ganesh Pangare

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Rivers, Tapi, Water Distribution, Traditional Knowledge, India, Madhya Pradesh

India

Exhaustive study of Munda tribal society

THE BOOK under review is an exhaustive, intensely researched, painstaking study of the social organisation of the Munda of Central India. This area is not the same as the historical or the political

Publication Date:

14/09/1992

Author(s): K S Singh

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

1

Issue:

19920915

pp:

0

Tags:

Tribals, India, Madhya Pradesh

India

Mammoth problem

ELEPHANTS are fast becoming a law and order problem in some parts of the country. A herd of elephants crossed over from Bihar into the tribal district of Sarguja in MP, attacking villages and

Publication Date:

14/09/1992

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Tribals, Elephant, India, Madhya Pradesh

India

Far too many irrelevant details

THE NEED for a comprehensive book on forestry seeds has long been felt. Ram Prasad's and A K Kandhya's Handling of Forestry Seeds in India is therefore a welcome addition to the existing literature

Publication Date:

30/08/1992

Author(s): A N Chaturvedi

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

1

Issue:

19920831

pp:

0

Tags:

Seeds, Forest Resources, India, Madhya Pradesh

India

A monumental failure

The report on the Sardar Sarovar does not address crucial issues like water saving technologies, lowering the dam height and reducing the size of the reservoir

Publication Date:

30/07/1992

Author(s): M N Buch

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

1

Issue:

19920731

pp:

0

Tags:

Narmada Valley Project, Displacement, Rehabilitation, India, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra

India

It's a damp squib

Lack of respect for facts and a strong ideology guided by Judaic Christian thought dominate the report

Publication Date:

30/07/1992

Author(s): Y K Alagh

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

1

Issue:

19920731

pp:

0

Tags:

Narmada Valley Project, Displacement, Rehabilitation, India, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra

Environment

Supreme Court judgement dated 14/02/1989 on Bhopal Gas Disaster

Supreme Court judgement dated 14/02/1989 on Bhopal Gas Disaster. The Court was of the opinion that the case was fit for an overall settlement between the parties covering all litigations, claims, rights and liabilities related to and arising out of the Disaster.

Publication Date:

14/02/1989

Source: Supreme Court of India

Tags:

Environment, Industrial Disasters, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Bhopal Act 1985, Union Carbide, Supreme Court, Government Of India (GOI), Madhya Pradesh, Compensation

Environment

The Bhopal disaster

This is the chapter of the State of India's Environment: the second citizen's report 1984-85.

Publication Date:

01/01/1985

Source: Centre for Science and Environment

Tags:

Bhopal, Environment, Industrial Disasters, Bhopal Gas Disaster, Union Carbide, CSE, Madhya Pradesh, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi, Health Effects

Ek Ped Ek Zindagi: Dainik Bhaskar’s CSR initiative to drive behavioral change towards plantation and nurturing of saplings

Planting a tree is not just digging the soil and planting a sapling. The key lies in nurturing the planted saplings which, if done properly, will contribute immensely in increasing green cover and ensuring ecological balance.

Tags:

Forests, Afforestation, Ecology, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Bihar, Punjab, Haryana, Maharashtra, Medicinal Plants, Deforestation, Urbanisation

Industry

Bhopal: A prayer for rain

On the night of 3rd December, 1984, Union Carbide tank 610, released 40 tonnes of lethal gas into Bhopal. What followed was the worst industrial disaster in human history. “Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain” is a movie set amidst that disaster. This 2 minute 45 second long trailer of the movie encompasses the horrifying darkness, the immense fear, and the bone chilling hopelessness of that night and the days that followed.