Narmada

Contemptuous moves

Do Arundhati Roy and M L Khurana understand what they are doing by undermining yet another institution of our democracy?

Publication Date:

29/09/2001

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

10

Issue:

20010930

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment Politics, Air Pollution, Vehicular Pollution, Narmada, CNG, Legislation, India, Delhi, Supreme Court

Taking the lead

People pump out water as if it rains underground. There is no shortage of water but a dearth of application of mind

Publication Date:

14/05/2001

Author(s): Anil Agarwal

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

9

Issue:

20010515

pp:

24

Tags:

Malwa Plateau, Narmada, Water Conservation, Water Harvesting, Water Demand, Drought, Anil Agarwal, India, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan

Sanitation

A lethal blow

The Maheshwar hydroelectric project on Narmada river in Madhya Pradesh has suffered another setback. The Portuguese government has refused to become a guarantor for a loan of Rs 200 crore being given

Publication Date:

14/04/2001

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Narmada, Maheshwar Dam, Hydroelectricity, Aid, United States Of America (US), Madhya Pradesh

India

Follow up

Two years after the first agitation against the Maheshwar hydel power project at Jalud in Khar-gone, Madhya Pradesh, activists of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) have yet again mobilised

Publication Date:

14/02/2000

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Narmada, Narmada Valley Project, Rehabilitation, Governance, Madhya Pradesh

India

Rising waters

Activists against the Narmada dam gear up to face the submergence of the first set of villages

Publication Date:

30/08/1999

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Narmada, Dams, Narmada Valley Project, Displacement, Tribals, Rehabilitation

Biodiversity

Candid camera

AN exhibition of photographs by Rajnikant Yadav, entitled "Images of Narmada', was held from December 9 to 15 at the Indian International Centre, New Delhi. It documented the culture of various

Publication Date:

30/01/1999

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

7

Issue:

19990131

pp:

0

Tags:

Narmada, Tribals, Traditional Knowledge

Climate Change

Long-period fluctuations in monsoon floods in the Deccan Peninsula, India

In the present study, the temporal patterns of monsoon floods on five large rivers of the Deccan Peninsula have been investigated. Analyses of the long-term annual maximum discharge/state data, available for the last 100 years or so, show non-random behaviour in terms of distinct periods of high and low floods.

Publication Date:

01/01/1999

Author(s): Vishwas S. Kale

Source: Journal of the Geological Society of India

Vol:

53

Issue:

0

pp:

5

Tags:

Rivers, Godavari, Krishna, Mahanadi, Narmada, Tapi, Monsoons, Climate Change, Floods, India, Rainfall Pattern

India

"We hope to encourage alternative lifestyles"

Having successfully brought the plight of the peasants and tribals of Narmada valley into international focus, MEDHA PATKAR continues her crusade against the ills of mindless 'development'. Apart from being the leader of the Narmada Bachao Andolan, she h

Publication Date:

14/07/1996

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

5

Issue:

19960715

pp:

0

Tags:

Narmada, India, Maharashtra

India

Fast measures

Vesta Dama Pawra and Bhamta Tukya Padvi, two tribals from the Sardar Sarovar submergence zone villages in Dhule district of Maharashtra, alongwith the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) leader Medha

Publication Date:

14/06/1996

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Narmada, Drinking Water, Tribals, India, Maharashtra

India