India

 REHABILITATION COMMITTEES

The Bombay High Court ordered

Publication Date: 
30/08/1999
Down to Earth
Tags:
Rehabilitation, National Parks, Mumbai
India

 Petition against nature park

A petition has been filed in the Bombay High Court against the construction of Nisarga Vihar, a nature centre proposed to be built on a 50-acre area within the Mulund side buffer zone of the Sanjay

Publication Date: 
30/07/1999
Down to Earth
Tags:
Green Spaces, Legislation, Mumbai
India

 Deadly proposal

the proposal to create a brand new garden belt from Nariman Point to Mahim and beyond in Mumbai has come under a lot of criticism from environmentalists. According noted environmentalist

Publication Date: 
14/06/1999
Down to Earth
Tags:
Land Reclamation, Green Spaces, Mumbai
Biodiversity

Zooplankton community of Bhayandar and Thane salt pans around Bombay

The zooplankton community of the salt pans of Bhayandar and Thane was studied based on the contribution of microzooplankton and meso-macrozooplankton. Population of microzooplankton was about 4 times more in Bhayandar as compared to Thane salt pan.

Publication Date: 
01/06/1999
S. Mustafa, Vijayalakshmi R. Nair, K. Govindan
Indian Journal of Marine Sciences
28
184-191
Tags:
Marine Ecosystems, Thane (D), Mumbai, Biodiversity, Maharashtra
Sanitation

Cities, sewers and poverty: India's politics of sanitation

This paper discusses the political circumstances which help explain why the insanitary living conditions of such a large section of India’s urban population have been ignored, and contrasts these with the circumstances which explain successful sanitary reform in Britain in the second half of the 19th century.

Publication Date: 
01/04/1999
Susan E. Chaplin
Environment & Urbanization
11
1
145-158
Tags:
Urban Sanitation, Poverty, India, Slums, Kolkata, Mumbai, Scavengers, United Kingdom (UK), Municipal Corporation, Governance, Politics, Urban Water Supply, Waterborne diseases, Public Participation, Women, NGO
Industry

 RELIEF FOR STRAY DOGS

The Bombay high court was assured by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) that dogs in the city will not be killed indiscriminately, but only when they pose a danger to public health. The

Publication Date: 
14/11/1998
Down to Earth
Tags:
Animal Cruelty, NGO, Mumbai
Habitat And Urbanisation

Urban planning by objectives

Urban planning is not an extension of architecture, but requires the co-ordination of a wide variety of skills and inputs. Most importantly, planning is meaningless unless it is firmly linked to implementation. The planner's best course of action is to set the objectives of his plan, and use these to determine policy initiatives.

Publication Date: 
18/04/1997
Shirish B Patel
Economic and Political Weekly
32
15
822
Tags:
Habitat And Urbanisation, Urban Planning, Urban Development, Mumbai, India
Industry

 Enron again

better late than never seems to be the motto of Enron Corp.

Publication Date: 
14/03/1997
Down to Earth
Tags:
Power Industry, Multinational Corporations (MNCs), Maharashtra, Mumbai, Tamil Nadu
India

 No digging

An ambitious masterplan to tackle Bombay's perennial water-logging problem during its ferocious monsoons will use an innovative, sub-surface "no dig" technology. The new system, part of a Rs

Publication Date: 
27/02/1994
Down to Earth
Tags:
Waterlogging, Drainage, Monsoons, Rail Transport, Roads, Mumbai
India

 Databank inaugurated

Anybody wanting information about Indian medicinal plants will soon be able to get it at the push of a button. Work on a multidisciplinary, computerised databank, Inmedplan (Indian Medicinal Plants

Publication Date: 
30/07/1993
Down to Earth
Tags:
Medicinal Plants, Information, NGO, Mumbai, Computers

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