Uttar Pradesh

Camel Yatra

Rajasthan s camel population has reduced dramatically during the last ten years. The Pali, Rajasthan based non governmental organisation Lokhit Pashu Palak Sansthan undertook a month long tour to investigate the situation

Publication Date:

30/05/2005

Author(s): Ilse Kohler-rollefson, Hanwant Singh Rathore

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Forests, Animal Cruelty, Camel, Animal Products, Endangered Species, NGO, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh

Industry

Ailing Aligarh

Uttar Pradesh pollution control board chief sidesteps Supreme Courtorder

Publication Date:

14/01/2005

Author(s): Vikas Parashar

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Pollution, Pollution Control, Health Effects, Industry, Hazardous Industry, Legislation, Supreme Court, Uttar Pradesh

Mining

In short

too demanding: The Uttar Pradesh government decided on December 14, 2004, to constitute an Irrigation Development and Flood Control Commission. The move is allegedly aimed at merely including

Publication Date:

14/01/2005

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20050115

pp:

0

Tags:

Mining, Coal, Workers, Poverty, Politics, China, Uttar Pradesh, European Union (EU)

Poverty

Foreign influence

Instead of designing a low priced indigenous tractor, industry copies models used abroad

Publication Date:

30/10/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20041031

pp:

0

Tags:

Agricultural Systems, Agricultural Inputs, Agricultural Machines, Tractors, Farmers, Poverty, Technology, China, India, Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh

Poverty

65 million draught animals

What runs the small farming economy?

Publication Date:

30/10/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20041031

pp:

0

Tags:

Agricultural Systems, Agricultural Inputs, Agricultural Machines, Tractors, Farmers, Poverty, Technology, China, India, Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh

Poverty

Time to redress

The needs of the small farmer require attention: small tractors or animal power? Both?

Publication Date:

30/10/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20041031

pp:

0

Tags:

Agricultural Systems, Agricultural Inputs, Agricultural Machines, Tractors, Farmers, Poverty, Technology, China, India, Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh

India

Unputdownable

Star-studded campaigns, millions spent and 20 new cases of polio to show for it. The reason being offered by Uttar Pradesh (up) is lack of adequate routine immunisation. The affected districts are

Publication Date:

14/09/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20040915

pp:

0

Tags:

Health, Immunisation, Vaccination, Polio, India, Uttar Pradesh

India

All about jaggery

Jaggery traders in Andhra Pradesh's Anakapalli market ended 2003 on an unexpectedly high note. After mid-December, prices shot up Rs 95-Rs 110 per 10 kg of jaggery, fuelled by a shortfall of stocks

Publication Date:

30/01/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

12

Issue:

20040131

pp:

0

Tags:

Agriculture, Trade, India, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh

India

More dirt on GAP

The much-hyped sewage treatment plants installed in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, under the Ganga Action Plan are proving to be ineffective. A report released in October states that the irrigation water supplied from these steps to villages located in the area i

Publication Date:

14/12/2003

Author(s): R K Srinivasan

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Pollution, Leather Industry, Heavy Metals, Health Effects, Ganga Action Plan, India, Uttar Pradesh, Kanpur (D)

India

Deadlocked in Aligarh

On the one hand: potholed roads, poor sewage systems, numerous small scale industries, nightmarish working conditions. On the other: clueless civic authorities. India s lock and key town faces a grave paradox

Publication Date:

29/11/2003

Author(s): Nidhi Jamwal

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Pollution, Groundwater Pollution, Health Effects, Child Labour, Occupational Health, Small Scale Industry, Legislation, India, Uttar Pradesh