India

 MALAR miracle

From literacy to economic independence

Publication Date: 
29/09/2003
E Vijayalakshmi
Down to Earth
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Women, Rural Development, Economic Development, Panchayats, India, Tamil Nadu, Kanniyakumari
Air Pollution

 In short

panchayat polls: A decade after the 73rd amendment to the Constitution, Jharkhand will for the first time hold panchayat elections in December this year. The state government has finally taken the

Publication Date: 
14/09/2003
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Slaughter House, Carbon Dioxide, Scheduled Castes, Tribals, Power Industry, Legislation, High Court, Panchayats, United States Of America (US), Delhi, Jharkhand
India

 Stillborn law

Leaves tribals power starved

Publication Date: 
30/08/2003
Down to Earth
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Tribals, Legislation, Panchayats, Gram Sabhas, NGO
India

 Devolution suffers setback

India s decentralisation process receives yet another blow

Publication Date: 
29/06/2003
Pradeep Kumar
Down to Earth
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Rural Development, Finance, Governance, Panchayats, India
Water Resources

 Single ministry to look after watershed programmes

The Center proposes to consolidate all watershed programmes under a single ministry. The aim of the new programme, called Hariyali, is to streamline work and avoid duplication. "I am totally in

Publication Date: 
29/04/2003
R V Singh
Down to Earth
Tags:
Wastelands, Agriculture, Water Resources, Afforestation, Watershed Development, Drought Relief, Panchayats, NGO
Environment

 Climate is changing, and the Sundarban residents can feel it

The Sundarban delta region in the Bay of Bengal, with 10,000 square kilometres of estuarine mangrove forest and 102 islands, is the world s largest delta. The land here is an eerie muddle of landmass and sea, with mudflats and waves engaged in unrelenting

Publication Date: 
30/03/2003
Down to Earth
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Environment, Sundarbans, Chemical Fertilisers, Mangroves, Health Effects, Deforestation, Sea Level Rise, Governance, Panchayats
India

 Corporate wastelands

Tamil Nadu seems set to gift community land to corporates under the name of wasteland regeneration

Publication Date: 
14/03/2003
Richard Mahapatra, J Saravanan
Down to Earth
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Wastelands, Finance, Private Sector, High Court, Governance, Community Groups, Political Parties, Panchayats, NGO, India, Tamil Nadu
India

 How to make Swajaldhara work

Intention and execution are not always related. That s the Swajaldhara lesson. Swajaldhara is a national level rural water supply scheme that seeks to put in place a people oriented, decentralised and demand driven water management regime. To this end, it

Publication Date: 
14/03/2003
Videh Upadhyay
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Water Management, Rural Water Supply, Legislation, Governance, Panchayats
India

 Large promises

Prime Minister Vajpayee is terribly interested in rural development these days. On his birthday he inaugurated Swajaldhara, a nation wide water conservation programme, and promised a drought stricken rural populace that every village would have water by 2

Publication Date: 
27/02/2003
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Water Conservation, Rural Development, Legislation, Government Of India (GOI), Panchayats
India

 Rainfed tanks lie neglected in parched Chhattisgarh

In theory, rainwater harvesting can drought proof every village in India. In theory, drought proofing requires strong and functioning village level institutions. Travelling through Chattisgarh state officially declared drought hit gives me a chance to s

Publication Date: 
27/02/2003
Binayak Das
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Management, Tank Irrigation, Watershed Development, Drought, Panchayats, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh

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