India

 Project pipedream

The Union government's newly launched Rs 1000-crore Hariyali (greenery) programme is one of the biggest rainwater harvesting projects ever to be conceived in India. "The scheme has the dual

Publication Date: 
27/02/2003
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Water Conservation, Water Harvesting, Irrigation, Rural Development, India
Water Resources

 A watershed plan

Recurrent droughts and floods coupled with mass poverty, chronic unemployment and pervasive malnutrition are the major challenges before India. The Union government usually responds by complaining about truant rains and doles out funds in an arbitrary man

Publication Date: 
14/02/2003
H M Desarda
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Water Resources, Groundwater Recharge, Water Management, Water Conservation, Water Harvesting, Dams, Irrigation, Watershed Development, Rural Development, Village Level Planning, Unemployment, Hydrology, Information, Panchayats
India

 Film review: A planet of hope

Kalahandi: A Planet of Herbs / Director: Amarendra Kishore / 28 minutes / English/Hindi

Publication Date: 
14/02/2003
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Forest Management, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Tribals, Tribal Medicine, Traditional Knowledge, Medicinal Plants, Poaching, Rural Development, Information, Orissa (Odisha), Kalahandi
India

 Toothless at 10

A decade after their inception, Panchayati Raj bodies are yet to be granted adequate powers

Publication Date: 
14/01/2003
Richard Mahapatra
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Rural Development, Governance, Panchayats, Politics, India, Delhi, Jharkhand, Pondicherry
India

 Phulmai s walk a day in the life of a headloader

Headloaders collectors of fuelwood in India's woodlands. On the one hand, seen as forest destroyers, on the other, they are the sole support of a multi billion dollar market. RICHARD MAHAPATRA follows one of them from dawn to dusk to learn about the str

Publication Date: 
14/12/2002
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Forest Products, Wood, Firewood, Trade, Renewable Energy, Biomass, Drought, Headloaders, Women, Rural Development, Poverty, Supreme Court, India, Jharkhand
India

 E CONNECTING VILLAGES

www.mp.nic.in/gramsampark E-governance in rural administration, says the title of this website launched by the Madhya Pradesh government. The aim is to bring about

Publication Date: 
30/10/2002
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Fuel Additive, Trade, Rural Development, India, Madhya Pradesh, Internet
Climate Change

 Contentious credit

World Bank giving loan for anti tribal forest project, say Andhra activists

Publication Date: 
14/08/2002
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Forest Management, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Tribals, Rural Development, World Bank, NGO, Andhra Pradesh
India

 Power of knowledge

In Madhya Pradesh, Mangal and Surshingh of Sarai village, go to the district administration at Dhar, several kilometres away, to lodge complaints against local services. Sometimes, it is about

Publication Date: 
30/07/2002
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Rural Development, Education, Madhya Pradesh, Computers
Agriculture

 Costly largesse

US unveils safety net for its farmers, shackling global free trade and posing a threat to environment

Publication Date: 
29/06/2002
Nitin Sethi
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Agriculture, Agricultural Research, Food Policy, Fisheries, Trade, WTO, Farmers, Rural Development, Subsidies, Legislation, World Bank, United States Of America (US), India, Developing Countries, European Union (EU)
Climate Change

  Culmination of the IT revolution

Ashok Jhunjhunwala, professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, is the man behind the wireless local loop technology cor dect and the TeNeT Telecommunications and Computer Networks group.

Publication Date: 
30/05/2002
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Rural Development, Electronics Industry, Technology, Karnataka, Chennai (D), Internet, Computers, Electronics

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