Rajasthan

A lesson from malaria

Even as the cerebral malaria epidemic in Rajasthan abates with the onset of winter, NGOs who had first sounded the alarm are trying to ensure that the incident does not slip from the state

Publication Date:

14/12/1994

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Malaria, India, Rajasthan

India

The states see red

TILL the other day, the Rajasthan chief minister, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, seemed to spend much of his time frozen on an anti-environmentalist platform, ranting against the Union ministry of

Publication Date:

14/12/1994

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

3

Issue:

19941215

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment, India, Orissa (Odisha), Rajasthan, Pollution

India

Pumping in diseases

THE recent outbreak of falciparum malaria in non-endemic areas in Rajasthan has underscored the link between development projects and the damage they cause to the human environment. Public health

Publication Date:

29/11/1994

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

3

Issue:

19941130

pp:

0

Tags:

Waterlogging, Canal Irrigation, Malaria, India, Rajasthan

India

Heat on in solar thermal power project

Despite international scepticism, the Union ministry of non-conventional energy sources (MNES) has revived plans to set up a solar thermal power plant in Rajasthan. The project will be executed by

Publication Date:

29/11/1994

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Israel, India, Rajasthan

India

Mosquitoes storm the desert

A cerebral malaria epidemic in Rajasthan has its source in the Indira Gandhi Canal

Publication Date:

29/11/1994

Author(s): Rimjhim Jain

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

3

Issue:

19941130

pp:

0

Tags:

Canal Irrigation, Malaria, India, Rajasthan

India

Shadow over calm waters

Tourism threatens the Jaisamand lake near Udaipur

Publication Date:

14/10/1994

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

3

Issue:

19941015

pp:

0

Tags:

Lake Pollution, India, Rajasthan

India

Churning the stilled waters

The citizens of Udaipur are increasingly taking on the government to check degradation of the city"s famed lakes

Publication Date:

14/10/1994

Author(s): Rita Anand

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

3

Issue:

19941015

pp:

0

Tags:

Lake Pollution, India, Rajasthan

Biodiversity

Biodiversity conservation through ecodevelopment

This indicative plan has based on the work of field/park directors and their colleagues in the eight protected areas, and of various non-governmental organisations involved in carrying out PRA in the proposed project area.

Publication Date:

Oct 1994

Source: Indian Institute of Public Administration

Tags:

Pench TR, Gir NP, Palamau NP, Periyar NP, Ranthambore NP, Simlipal NP, Buxa SA, Nagarahole NP, Biodiversity, Bihar, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa (Odisha), Rajasthan, West Bengal

India

The grass returns

How a village in Rajasthan greened its pasture despite official hamhandedness

Publication Date:

30/08/1994

Author(s): Sudeep Mukhia

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

3

Issue:

19940831

pp:

0

Tags:

Grazing Lands, Wasteland Development, Cattle, India, Rajasthan

Water Supply

Urban water supply in Rajasthan - Problems and prospects

The growing problems in providing adequate drinking water to urban populations is a consequence of the lack of long-term planning and inefficient management of urban water usage.

Publication Date:

27/08/1994

Author(s): M S Rathore, V Ratna Reddy, S Ramanathan

Source: Economic and Political Weekly

pp:

2272-2274

Tags: