Health

New health scheme for northeast people launched

Assam governor J B Patnaik launched the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital and Medical Research Institute's special health check-up scheme for the people of northeast at Raj Bhawan here on Saturda

Publication Date: 
21/10/2013
Times Of India (Guwahati)
Tags:
Assam, North East, Health, Health Care
Forests

Large–scale diversion of forest land in NE

NEW DELHI, October 20: A fact that is likely to generate a wide–scale controversy amongst the environmental activists in the northeastern States, as many as 10,846.6382 hectares of forest land was

Publication Date: 
21/10/2013
Sentinel (Guwahati)
Tags:
North East, Forests, Arunachal, Manipur, Assam, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura, Forest Act 1980
Biodiversity

The case of sacred groves in India

Sacred groves have survived very long without human interference, and thus are of anthropological, cultural, economic, and ecological significance. In India, these groves are concentrated in the North-East and along the Western Ghats, both globally recognised hotspots of biodiversity. Unfortunately, their size and number are now shrinking at an alarming rate, and it is high time a workable solution is found to sustain them.

Publication Date: 
12/10/2013
Anwesha Borthakur
Economic and Political Weekly
48
41
25-27
Tags:
Sacred Groves, India, Biodiversity Hotspots, Western Ghats, Biodiversity Conservation, Religious Beliefs, Traditional Knowledge, Statistics, North East
Agriculture

Shifting cultivation and the Reang Tribe in Tripura

The Reang tribe in Tripura, which practised shifting cultivation and still does to an extent, faces serious problems with the state government implementing measures to turn them into settled cultivators. This essay points out that government programmes have widened social disparities among the Reangs and brought in alternatives that cannot sustain them round the year. It argues that shifting cultivation, which aims at self-sufficiency, is still remunerative compared to other forms of cultivation if traditional forest and land rights are restored to the tribal people.

Publication Date: 
05/10/2013
Mayuri Sengupta
Economic and Political Weekly
48
40
59-65
Tags:
Shifting Cultivation, Tribals, Tripura, North East, Forests, Forest Policy, Dams, Displacement, Deforestation, Rehabilitation, Forest Act 1927, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Horticulture, Agriculture, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF)
Energy

Shale oil and gas exploration policy to be taken up

The Cabinet is likely to consider on Tuesday a policy for exploration of shale oil and gas, which will initially allow state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation and Oil India to tap the unconvent

Publication Date: 
24/09/2013
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), Oil India, Oil Exploration, Natural Gas Exploration, Gujarat, North East, Andhra Pradesh, Cauvery
Habitat And Urbanisation

Government approves Rs 2,130 cr road projects in Assam under SARDP

In a bid to boost infrastructure in North Eastern region, the government on Friday approved three important highway projects in Assam entailing Rs 2,130 crore expenditure under Special Accelerated

Publication Date: 
20/09/2013
Times Of India (Guwahati)
Tags:
Assam, Highways, North East, Roads, Urbanisation, Habitat And Urbanisation
Energy

Move to clear hydel hurdles

Guwahati, Sept.

Publication Date: 
12/09/2013
Telegraph (North East)
Tags:
Government Of India (GOI), North East, Hydroelectricity, Arunachal
Natural Disasters

Only 15 states have set up Disaster Response Force: NDMA

Only 15 states have so far set up their own respective State Disaster Response Force following direction from the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) earlier this year.

Publication Date: 
12/09/2013
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Natural Disasters, Disaster Management, North East, Guwahati, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Nagaland
Habitat And Urbanisation

Centre approves fund for tourism project

In a major boost to the North–East tourism sector, Union Tourism Minister K Chiranjeevi has approved Central Finance Assistance (CFA) to various tourism development projects in the States of Arunac

Publication Date: 
09/09/2013
Sentinel (Guwahati)
Tags:
North East, Arunachal, Sikkim, Tourism, Nagaland, Ministry of Tourism, Ecotourism, Tribals, Habitat And Urbanisation
Environment

Environmentally ‘unfriendly’ projects touted as sustainable

Several environmentally ‘unfriendly’ projects in Assam and North East are being touted as sustainable, receiving funds under UN’s Clean Development Mechanism, wreaking havoc to the eco–system and t

Publication Date: 
05/09/2013
Sentinel (Guwahati)
Tags:
Assam, North East, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), NGO, Climate Change, Arunachal, Dams, Desang, Hydroelectricity, Certified Emission Reduction, Sustainable Development, Environment

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