Tamil Nadu

India has entered Phase II of tackling the tsunami disaster. It is now readying to rebuild and rehabilitate the affected areas and develop disaster prevention and management systems.

Publication Date:

30/01/2005

Source: Week (Kochi)

Tags:

Tsunami, Disaster Management, Rehabilitation, UNDP, India, Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu

Natural Disasters

Even as relief work continues in areas devastated by the tsunami, the corpus of the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund has quietly swelled to around Rs 500 crore. The money is said to be the largest corpus ever collected through the fund.
This is just money that has been sent as Demand Drafts. "Cheques still need to be processed and taken into account," said a PMO official.

Publication Date:

23/01/2005

Author(s): K.P. Narayana Kumar

Source: Week (Kochi)

Tags:

Andaman Islands, Nicobar Islands, Tsunami, World Bank, India, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu

Natural Disasters

A people still at sea

When Baskaran, a fisherman in Nochikuppam, Chennai, is asked what the fisherfolk normally eat for breakfast

Publication Date:

17/01/2005

Author(s): S. Anand;John Mary

Source: Outlook (New Delhi)

Tags:

Krishna, Tsunami, Fisherfolk, Rehabilitation, Andhra Pradesh, Guntur (D), Nellore (D), Prakasam, Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu, Nagapattinam (D), Cuddalore

Environment

The naked coast

"... Your ministry is responsible for all the destruction and killing of 12,000 people on the coast..."

Publication Date:

17/01/2005

Author(s): Poornima Joshi

Source: Outlook (New Delhi)

Tags:

Mangroves, Cyclones, Tsunami, High Court, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), M S Swaminathan, Goa, Karnataka, Orissa (Odisha), Tamil Nadu, Coastal Regulations

Sanitation

Peri-urban interface of Indian cities

The outward expansion of larger metros, gradual changes in land use and occupations have transformed the rural hinterland into semi-urban or ‘peri-urban’ areas.

Publication Date:

08/01/2005

Author(s): Annapuma Shaw

Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Vol:

40

Issue:

2

pp:

129

Tags:

India, Urban Sanitation, Solid Waste, Chennai (T), NGO, Tamil Nadu, Composting, Waste Management, Calcutta (T), West Bengal, Panchayats, Nagarpalikas, Garbage, Urban Land Use, Sanitation

Economy

Impact of Dhan Foundation's Kalanjiam community banking programme

Self-Help Group and linkage banking programme has come a long way from a small pilot project of NABARD to become a major poverty financing programme in India. Several organisations have participated in the country-wide programme with several models, but the essence remained the banking linkage through groups of poor women. DHAN Foundation's programme named as Kalanjiam Community Banking Programme is one such big programme in the country with projects being operated across several blocks in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.

Publication Date:

01/01/2005

Author(s): R. Seenivasan

Source: Journal of Rural Development

Vol:

24

Issue:

1

pp:

23

Tags:

Finance, Anti-Poverty Programmes, National Bank For Agriculture And Rural Development (NABARD), Dhan Foundation, India, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Statistics