In the post-tsunami period, in the midst of hectic relief work, the Social Activities for Rural Development Society (SARDS), an NGO working in the Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh, made a startling discovery. While every government and voluntary agency in the area was bending over backwards to offer relief to the fishing community, the 35,000 odd salt making community in the district was left totally out of the ambit of all relief and aid work. Dec 2007

there is renewed interest in gold salts curing rheumatoid arthritis, a chronic inflammatory disease of joints and other tissues. Using them to treat arthritis has been a matter of longstanding

a seaweed from Japan being cultivated in Tamil Nadu is being promoted as the source of the best salt for blood pressure patients. Scientists at the Central Salt and Marine Research Institute at

Salt, A World History

round salt: In what may be a boon to consumers and industry, a group of chemists in India has reported a method to make round salt. Scientists have been striving for years to smoothen the shape of

SALT overpowers you in the Little Rann of Kutch. It burns the insides of your nose. You can taste it on your tongue and lips. It makes your eyes run. All it takes is an hour in the Rann for salt to saturate your senses.
The Little Rann of Kutch is home to the last surviving species of the Asiatic wild ass.

Documents of the Dandi March

Minister sounds false alarm; government still mulling the ban

Centre to re impose ban on non iodised salt

Letter to secretary (forests) Govt of Gujarat to Asstt Inspector General of Forests on diversion of forest land for Salt Washery and Desalination Plant near Dhrub village in favour of M/s. Adani Chemicals Ltd., in District Kutch, Gujarat dated 13th May 2004.

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