Environment

Uneven rainfall

THE total seasonal rainfall during the year's southwest monsoon (June 1 to September 30) for the country as a whole was 99 per cent of its long-period average (LPA), which, being within plus or minus 10 per cent of the LPA, can be termed as a `normal' monsoon.

Publication Date: 
03/11/2006
R. Ramachandran
Frontline (Chennai)
Tags:
Andaman Islands, Nicobar Islands, North East, Monsoons, Drought, Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), Arunachal, Assam, Bihar, Meghalaya, Uttar Pradesh, Rainfall Pattern
India

 Question on employment guarantee scheme's success

function table() { var popurl="image/20060930/43-table.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=575,height=500,scrollbars=yes") } It's been six months since the National Rural

Publication Date: 
29/09/2006
Minakshi Thakur
Down to Earth
Tags:
Rural Development, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Unemployment, Governance, Panchayats, India, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Statistics, Rural Poverty
Natural Disasters

Meghalaya state disaster management plan

The objectives of the Disaster Management Plan are to ensure that disaster management is organised to facilitate planning, preparedness, operational coordination and community participation.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2006
Government of Meghalaya
Tags:
Disaster Management, Meghalaya, Disaster Preparedness, Natural Disasters
Natural Disasters

Meghalaya policy on disaster risk management

The main aim of this Policy is establishing principles and guidelines on various aspects of Disaster Management and making the people increasingly resilient to disaster.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2006
Government of Meghalaya
Tags:
Disaster Management, Meghalaya, Legislation
Forests

 Fell blow

The Supreme Court s involvement in forest convers

Publication Date: 
30/07/2005
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Forests, Forest Policy, Wood, Forest-Based Industry, Charcoal, India, Meghalaya
India

 Right to be informed

Chronology of an uphill struggle in Meghalaya

Publication Date: 
14/05/2005
C L Arel
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Legislation, India, Meghalaya
Mining

Impact of coal mining on vegetation: a case study in Jaintia hills district of Meghalaya, India

The main aim of this study are: to identify, map and determine the extent of vegetation cover and its condition in the coal mined and unmined areas; to find relationship between spatial distribution of vegetation including its condition and mining; and to assess the impact of coal mining on vegetation and to provide evidence for the hypothesis that mining influences the spatial distribution, compo

Publication Date: 
01/02/2005
Kiranmay Sarma
ITC
Tags:
Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Jaintia Hills, Mining, Coal, India, Meghalaya
India

 Trees are our only livelihood

Meghalaya's west Khasi hills. He shares with Centre for Science and Environment media fellow P Madhavan his experience of the charcoal trade

Publication Date: 
30/12/2004
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Deforestation, Wood, Trade, Charcoal, Meghalaya, West Khasi Hills
Industry

 Bytes

smokescreen: As per a study by UK-based Lon

Publication Date: 
14/12/2004
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Tobacco, Malnutrition, Health Effects, Infant mortality, Climate Change, Smoking, Electricity, Birds, Industry, Research, War, Nuclear Weapons, United Arab Emirates, Europe, India, Meghalaya
Food Policy

Food for all

The right-to-food campaign gets a fillip with the Common Minimum Programme of the new government incorporating far-reaching commitments on food security and the evolving constitutional doctrine tha

Publication Date: 
02/07/2004
Sukumar Muralidharan
Frontline (Chennai)
Tags:
Food Security, India, Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), Supreme Court, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Haryana, Arunachal, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Orissa (Odisha), Punjab, West Bengal, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)

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