Energy

Power regulators want Act tweak to penalise state discoms on green clause

Forum of Regulators has stressed need for invoking existing regulations of imposing non-compliance charge

Faced with the prospect of state distribution utilities not complying with renewable power obligation (RPO), Forum of Regulators (FOR), a representative body of Central and state regulators, has called for amendments to the Electricity Act, 2003, empowering regulators to impose penalty for non- compliance. FOR has also stressed the need for invoking the existing regulations of imposing non-compliance charge.

Publication Date: 
15/10/2013
Sanjay Jog
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Tripura, Maharashtra, Renewable Energy, Electricity, Punjab, Regulations, Energy Policy, Energy
Food Policy

Tripura govt to implement food scheme

Abandoning its earlier stance, the country’s lone Left Front government in Tripura Wednesday decided to implement the food security act in the north eastern state.

The state government had earlier said it could not implement the scheme because of the inadequate quantity of grains earmarked for Tripura under the central government’s food security scheme.

Publication Date: 
10/10/2013
Shillong Times (Shillong)
Tags:
Tripura, Food Security, Public Distribution System (PDS), Food Policy
Agriculture

Shifting cultivation and the Reang Tribe in Tripura

The Reang tribe in Tripura, which practised shifting cultivation and still does to an extent, faces serious problems with the state government implementing measures to turn them into settled cultivators. This essay points out that government programmes have widened social disparities among the Reangs and brought in alternatives that cannot sustain them round the year. It argues that shifting cultivation, which aims at self-sufficiency, is still remunerative compared to other forms of cultivation if traditional forest and land rights are restored to the tribal people.

Publication Date: 
05/10/2013
Mayuri Sengupta
Economic and Political Weekly
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Shifting Cultivation, Tribals, Tripura, North East, Forests, Forest Policy, Dams, Displacement, Deforestation, Rehabilitation, Forest Act 1927, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Horticulture, Agriculture, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF)
Food Policy

Tripura demands inclusion of essential food items in PDS

While demanding food for all under National Food Security Act, Tripura has insisted to distribute other essential commodities including edible oil and pulses through Public Distribution System (PDS

Publication Date: 
03/10/2013
Shillong Times (Shillong)
Tags:
Tripura, Food Security, Public Distribution System (PDS), Edible Oils, Nutrition, Rice, Food Policy
Energy

CAG raises queries on delay in pipeline projects

Seeks answers from Petroleum Ministry on IPI, TAPI and India-Bangladesh-Myanmar gas pipeline.

Publication Date: 
24/09/2013
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Iran, Pakistan, India, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Natural Gas, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Mizoram, Tripura, Assam
Economy

Survey: Sikkim has maximum unemployment

About 13.3 per cent of youth in the country are unemployed according to the third annual employment and unemployment survey report conducted by the Labour Bureau of the Union Ministry of Labour and

Publication Date: 
20/09/2013
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
Unemployment, Sikkim, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Arunachal, Tripura, Goa, Kerala, Pondicherry, Lakshadweep
Energy

ONGC’s dithering delays Tripura gas power project

The state-owned ONGC’s repeated dilly-dallying on supplying gas has delayed the state-run NEEPCO’s second biggest thermal power project in northeast India and resulted in huge losses, an official s

Publication Date: 
11/09/2013
Shillong Times (Shillong)
Tags:
Tripura, South Tripuram, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), Ministry of Power, Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (BHEL), Shillong, Solar Energy, Wind Energy, Renewable Energy, Energy
Health

Tripura to introduce generic medicines

Tripura will emulate Rajasthan and provide non–branded generic medicines to people to cut costs in medical treatment, an official said on Monday.

Publication Date: 
10/09/2013
Sentinel (Guwahati)
Tags:
Tripura, Drugs, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Health Care, Health
Energy

Technical snags hit ONGC’s first power plant in Tripura

Two–and–a–half months after President Pranab Mukherjee dedicated ONGC’s first 726 MW mega power project in Tripura to the nation, commercial generation is yet to begin due to technical snags, an of

Publication Date: 
04/09/2013
Sentinel (Guwahati)
Tags:
Tripura, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (BHEL), Electricity, Power Transmission, Energy
Climate Change

Tripura explores possibilities for carbon trading

Indo-German Development Cooperation (IGDC) project of Tripura has begun to assess land based climate finance possibilities in tribal dominated Dhalai district of Tripura besides, identifying existi

Publication Date: 
02/09/2013
Shillong Times (Shillong)
Tags:
Tripura, Dhalai, Climate Economics, Climate Change, Ecosystems, CSE, Climate Mitigation, CSE Study, Forest Rights Act 2006, North Tripura

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