Environment

 Rising like the Phoenix

After suffering a spate of floods villagers regain environmental and economic vitality

Publication Date: 
29/09/2000
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Land Use, Common Property Resources, Organic Farming, Watershed Development, Floods, Disaster Management, Women, Public Participation, NGO, Rajasthan, Jaipur (D), Sustainable Development
Industry

 Bone of contention

Neither Project Tiger nor the eco development project can end the conflicts between the forest officials and the villagers in Ranthambhore

Publication Date: 
30/08/2000
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Forest Management, Forest Conservation, Forest Personnel, Conflicts, Protected Area Conservation, Ranthambore NP, Governance, Rajasthan, Animal Menace
Water Resources

 FOLLOW UP

The people of Bichhri , a village

Publication Date: 
30/08/2000
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Groundwater Pollution, Soil Capability, Water Resources, Water Harvesting, Public Participation, Rajasthan, Udaipur (D)
Environment

 FOLLOW UP

A special technology mission is being set up by the government for states that have unsatisfactory population control records. The states are Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Assam, Bihar and

Publication Date: 
14/08/2000
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Population Trends, Family Planning, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa (Odisha), Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh
Agriculture

 Cleanup time

A campaign by an organisation to clean up the polluted lakes of Udaipur has finally paid off. The Rajasthan High Court clamps down on erring government officials

Publication Date: 
29/06/2000
Indira Khurana
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Pollution Control, Lake Pollution, Water Conservation, Water Quality, Drinking Water, Legislation, Public Participation, Governance, NGO, Rajasthan
Water Resources

 Down with the dump

Residents of a Rajasthan village are up in arms over secret plans to store nuclear waste nearby

Publication Date: 
29/06/2000
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Health Effects, Landfill, Radiation, Nuclear Wastes, Public Participation, Nuclear Weapons, Rajasthan
India

 SUBSIDISED KILLING

They may survive the drought. But they cannot survive government policies. When people have to abandon their livestock, they are reduced to misery, as is happening in Gujarat and Rajasthan. Because India s rural economy is built around livestock, which ca

Publication Date: 
14/06/2000
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Grasslands, Land Resources, Soil Capability, Animal Feed, Fodder, Livestock, Animal Products, Drought, Pastoral Nomads, Landless, Religious Beliefs, Animal Energy, Rural Development, Governance, Rajasthan, Food Security, Rural Poverty
Climate Change

 Right to know

The Rajasthan Assembly recently passed the Right to Information Bill. But will it make state records more accessible to the public?

Publication Date: 
30/05/2000
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Tags:
Legislation, Right To Information (RTI), Politics, Rajasthan
India

 Contrasting images

First hand account from a researcher who visited the drought hit regions

Publication Date: 
30/05/2000
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Tags:
Water Harvesting, Drought, Public Participation, Governance, Gujarat, Rajasthan
India

 Starving cattle

drought and an acute shortage of

Publication Date: 
29/04/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Drought Prone Areas, Animal Feed, Livestock, Starvation, Food Aid, India, Rajasthan

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