Water Resources

Environmental Impact Assessment for proposed Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project

The Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project under the consideration of the Ministry of Shipping, Government of India, envisages creation of a ship navigation channel to suit different draughts (9.15 m, 10.7 m and 12.8m) through dredging/excavation in Adam’s Bridge, parts of Palk Bay and Palk Strait.

Publication Date: 
01/08/2004
National Environmental Engineering Research Institute
Tags:
Sethusamudram Project, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Shipping, India, Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu, Environment Clearance (EC), Gulf Of Mannar Marine NP, Biosphere Reserves, Marine Ecosystems, Palk Strait, Dredging, Sedimentation
India

 Devolution meet a damp squib

Precious little achieved as states resist financial empowerment of panchayats

Publication Date: 
30/07/2004
Richard Mahapatra
Down to Earth
Tags:
Rural Development, Finance, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Panchayats, India, Bihar, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal
Forests

Colonial constructions of 'agrarian fields' and 'forests' in the Kolli Hills

Forest histories have more often than not remained aloof from more broad-based economic histories of agrarian communities. As a result, narratives of the forest economy have focused almost entirely on the process offorest settlement. This article focuses on regional processes of territorialisation associated with revenue and forest settlement in the context of the Kolli Hills.

Publication Date: 
01/07/2004
Ajit Menon
Indian Economic and Social History Review
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Tags:
Environment History, Forests, Land Use, Agriculture, Forest Products, Minor Forest Produce, India, Tamil Nadu, Forest Policy
Water Resources

  Empower us

TN gram panchayats plea to Union government

Publication Date: 
29/06/2004
E Vijayalakshmi
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Resources, Electricity, Panchayats, Tamil Nadu
Industry

 Time for the future to win

Elections 2004 are over. Was it a vote for development, social inclusion and justice? Or simply a vote against an incumbent government, flattened by sleazy and slick self promotion? The answer is

Publication Date: 
14/06/2004
Sunita Narain
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Water Resources, Drinking Water, Irrigation, Governance, Parliament, Political Parties, Politics, India, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu
Health

Battling The AIDS Virus

The much-awaited AIDS control programme takes off. So why are drug companies still miffed?

Publication Date: 
06/06/2004
R. Sridharan
Business Today (New Delhi)
Tags:
AIDS, National Aids Control Program, India, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Manipur, Nagaland, Tamil Nadu
India

 People s show of strength

Outpouring of resentment against landfill site plan in Tamil Nadu leaves authorities stunned

Publication Date: 
30/05/2004
E Vijayalakshmi
Down to Earth
Tags:
Waste Disposal, Public Participation, Panchayats, India, Tamil Nadu, Kanchipuram, Toxic Wastes
Transport

 Care not cure

Is the answer to the AIDS problem in migrants

Publication Date: 
30/05/2004
Vibha Varshney
Down to Earth
Tags:
Health Education, AIDS, Tamil Nadu
India

 Relish it

Staying healthy is not a daunting task if one regularly eats neem dishes

Publication Date: 
30/05/2004
Arttabandhu Mishra
Down to Earth
Tags:
Neem, Herbal Medcine, Orissa (Odisha), Tamil Nadu
Energy

More the merrier

By the beginning of the next financial year, consumers in India would have over 10 companies to choose from while buying petrol and diesel. The new entrants in this segment include private players like

Reliance, Essar and Shell, and three psus, Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemical Ltd (mrpl), ongc and Numaligarh Refinery.

Publication Date: 
10/05/2004
Yeshi Seli
Business India (Mumbai)
Tags:
Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), Mangalore Refineries And Petrochemical (MRPL)

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