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
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Waterlogging, Drainage, Monsoons, Rail Transport, Roads, Mumbai
Environment

 Waging battles for a better environment

Matanhy Saldanha has been associated with every major environmental campaign launched in independent Goa.

Publication Date: 
30/10/1992
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Environment, Rail Transport, Goa, Western Ghats
Environment

 Is it on the right track?

Controversy has dogged the Konkan railway project since its inception. Today, many influential Goans are up in arms against the present alignment of the track, which, they allege, would wreck the state"s environment. Railway officials, of course, disagree

Publication Date: 
30/10/1992
Uday Shankar
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Environment, Rail Transport, Goa, Western Ghats
Environment

 A question of democratic choice

THE KONKAN Railway is suffering from a typical attack of the NIMBY syndrome -- a two-decade-old acronym popularised during the movement against nuclear power stations by young people in the

Publication Date: 
30/10/1992
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Environment, Rail Transport, Goa, Ecology
Agriculture

 Ganga on the road

PARTS of National Highway No 34 and Eastern Railway's Farakka-Jangipur track are being eroded by the Ganga. Also being worn away are the Farakka feeder canal, the Jangipur barrage and a 94-km

Publication Date: 
30/07/1992
Down to Earth
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Soil Erosion, Ganga, Farakka Barrage, Floods, Rail Transport
Environment

 High court grants round one to railways

A high court order in favour of the Konkan railway corporation has provoked much anger and resentment among those who oppose the controversial project

Publication Date: 
29/06/1992
Anumita Roychowdhury
Down to Earth
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Development, Rail Transport, Goa
Mining

Mineral resources in Afghanistan

This report is intended to serve as a reference source of the mineral resources of Afghanistan, the possibilities of their exploitation, needs for further exploration and strategies and policies that Afghanistan might employ to develop its mineral resources with the support of bilateral assistance, regional and worldwide development institutions

Publication Date: 
01/02/1992
Office of the A.I.D. Representative for Afghan Affairs
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Minerals, Afghanistan, Natural Gas, Russia, United States Of America (US), Rail Transport, Mining, Copper, Iron, Coal, Hydroelectricity
Transport

Tram to oblivion

While several cities across the world have revived their tramways, Kolkata naively ignored its tramways and witnesses the last days of this non-polluting and once-efficient mode of transport. Read this special report in Down To Earth.

Kolkata witnesses the last days of a non-polluting and once-efficient mode of transport, while trams make a comeback in cities around the world.

Publication Date: 
15/03/2011
Sayantan Bera
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Calcutta (T), Infrastructure Development, Light Rail Transit, Metro, Public Transport, Rail Transport, Trams, Transport, Urban Transport, West Bengal, Kolkata
Energy

Railways-NTPC Adra JV caught in Mamata-Nitish Tussle

A proposed joint venture between the Indian Railways and NTPC for setting up a 1,320 MW thermal power plant in West Bengal has been caught in a tussle between the railway ministry and Bihar government over issues relating to a similar joint venture.

The power plant, proposed to be set up at Adra in Purulia district of West Bengal, has been made a part of Bhartiya Rail Bijlee Co, a 26:74 joint v

Publication Date: 
23/02/2011
Economic Times (New Delhi)
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Rail Transport, National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), Thermal Power Plants, Energy, West Bengal
Energy

CM demands more rly projects for NE

Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has requested Minister for Railways Mamata Banerjee for inclusion of a slew of projects in the Railway Budget for the year 2011-12.
In a letter to the Railway Minister, Gogoi requested Banerjee for new lines for strengthening the Railway infrastructure in the Northeast and Assam, which include a new railway line from Salona to Khumtai and Jorhat to Sivasagar for creatin

Publication Date: 
14/02/2011
Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
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Bongaigaon (D), Thermal Power Plants, Energy, Assam, Kokrajhar (D), Rail Transport, Dibrugarh (D), North East

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