India

 Loose bones

Fluoride contaminated cripples many in villages near Lahore

Publication Date: 
30/12/2000
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Groundwater Pollution, Water Quality, Drinking Water, Chemical Industry, Rural Habitat, Child Health, Fluorosis, Physical Disability, Lahore
India

 Extremely light!

The villages of Thulo Pokhara and Raje Danda of Nepal's Kavre

Publication Date: 
30/12/2000
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Rural Habitat, Rural Electrification, Rural Technology, Nepal
India

 The road ahead

India with its deplorable rural roads can learn a lesson from Madagascar, which has successfully implemented a decentralised system of constructing roads

Publication Date: 
14/11/2000
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Rural Habitat, Rural Roads, Political Decentralisation, Aid, Public Participation, Community Groups, Madagascar, India, Uttar Pradesh, Corruption
Agriculture

 Health care should be cheaper and more accessible

N H ANTIA Director of the Foundation for Research in Community Health, Pune, Maharashtra is striving to promote the concept of better health care for the underprivileged sections of the society. He spoke to VIBHA VARSHNEY regarding his programme of commu

Publication Date: 
14/09/2000
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Rural Habitat, Women, Health Care, Primary Health Care, Health Personnel, Public Participation, Community Groups, Maharashtra, Pune (D)
India

 Green cussedness, anyone?

They did the impossible on land that held no hope

Publication Date: 
14/09/2000
Mridula Garg
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Soil Capability, Waterlogging, Soil Science, Rural Habitat, Research, Public Participation, Sustainable Development
India

 Veerappan is popular...

...among local villagers because he involves them in sandalwood smuggling and shares the benefits

Publication Date: 
30/08/2000
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Timber Smuggling, Rural Habitat, Unemployment, Governance, Politics, Tamil Nadu, Erode
Water Resources

 Forgetting science

Publication Date: 
14/07/2000
Anil Agarwal
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Environment Politics, Water Resources, Water Harvesting, Dams, Watershed Development, Rural Habitat, Gujarat, Hydrology
India

 This DROUGHT is sponsored by Govt. of India

Who is really behind our water problems?

Publication Date: 
14/06/2000
Anil Agarwal
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Water Management, Water Harvesting, Drought, Rural Habitat, Traditional Knowledge, Public Participation, Governance, CSE, India
India

 And forests shall follow

The minister thinks it is time to formulate an integrated forest policy

Publication Date: 
30/05/2000
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Forest Management, Forest Policy, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Rural Habitat, Governance, India
India

 A belief in tradition

It was a unique ceremony for a unique award given to a unique rural community of India. In what is perhaps the first ceremony of its kind, President K R Narayanan flew to Hamirpura, a village in Alwar district, to felicitate the village of Bhaonta Kolyala

Publication Date: 
29/04/2000
Anil Agarwal
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Rivers, Alwara, Water Management, Water Harvesting, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Rural Habitat, Traditional Knowledge, Public Participation, CSE, Personalities, Anil Agarwal, Awards, Alwar (D), Rainfall

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