Industry

 Simmering

Pottery units, papad -makers, leather workers, furniture makers, even dance bars: Dharavi is a bustling economy now threatened by builder-driven redevelopment

Publication Date: 
29/11/2004
Nidhi Jamwal
Down to Earth
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Leather Industry, Development, Slums, Potters, Fisherfolk, Rehabilitation, Small Scale Industry, Cottage Industry, Mumbai
India

 A thing of beauty

It is a wonder! The amount of mudslinging the Taj Mahal provokes, it is surely impossible for this matchless mound of white marble to remain spotless. This time, the issue is construction behind the Taj and reclaiming a part of the Yamuna riverbed for the

Publication Date: 
30/07/2003
Down to Earth
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Monuments, Small Scale Industry, Legislation, India, Agra (D)
Fisheries

 Rural ventures

A slew of elementary schemes aim to alleviate poverty

Publication Date: 
14/06/2003
Rama
Down to Earth
Tags:
Natural Fertilisers, Banana, Paper and Pulp Industry, Rural Development, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Unemployment, Small Scale Industry, NGO, Waste Recycling
Water Resources

 Website review: http://www.tarahaat.com

If you are a Net savvy villager in north India, Tarahaat.com could easily become your favourite haunt on the Web. For starters, the website offers email services in 11 Indian languages. The utility of the website goes beyond traditional Net services...

Publication Date: 
30/03/2003
Down to Earth
Tags:
Rural Development, Small Scale Industry, Information, Governance, Internet
India

 Coping with waste

Common effluent treatment plants are fashionable, but without a proper framework of rights and responsibilities, they could become a tool for circumventing the law

Publication Date: 
14/01/2003
Down to Earth
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Pollution, Pollution Control, Industrial Dispersal, Leather Industry, Waste Treatment, Small Scale Industry, Technology, Supreme Court, NGO, Greenpeace, India, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Waste Recycling, Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP)
India

 Uttaranchal aglow

Hill state leads the way in decentralising electricity generation by granting small scale industry status to traditional water mills

Publication Date: 
14/02/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Policy, Electricity, Small Scale Industry, Governance, NGO, India, Himachal Pradesh, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)
Water Pollution

Small-scale industries drive India's economy but pollute heavily

Since independence, India has had strong policies to promote the small-scale industrial sector: it is labor intensive and thus creates more jobs, it contributes to decentralized industrial development and the units are flexible and able to quickly reorient themselves to emerging demands.

Publication Date: 
01/07/2001
Anil Agarwal
Stockholm Water Front
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Pollution, Water Pollution, Water Pollution Control, Textile Industry, Small Scale Industry, India
Industry

 Small policy

The Union government s decision to strengthen small scale industries will have serious repercussions on the efforts to save environment

Publication Date: 
29/09/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Pollution Control, Subsidies, Small Scale Industry, Technology, Government Of India (GOI), Sustainable Development, Environmental Security, Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP)
India

 Stretch the small horizon

A recent survey conducted by the Confederation of Indian Industries has proposed sweeping policy changes in the smallscale sector to enhance its viability in the export market

Publication Date: 
14/12/1994
Anumita Roychowdhury
Down to Earth
Tags:
Small Scale Industry, India
Energy

More power for small industries

More than 2 lakh small and medium industries in the state will have shorter power cuts from Monday. The four hour cut between 6 pm and 10 pm has been withdrawn with immediate affect.

Publication Date: 
16/03/2010
Deccan Chronicle (Hyderabad)
Tags:
Energy, Power Transmission, Industry, Small Scale Industry, Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad (D)

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