West Bengal

West Bengal village sits on archaeological treasure

LOHAPUR'S engagement with history is renewed, almost on an everyday basis. Whenever a patch of land is dug across a 16-sq km stretch in this tiny village in Birbhum district of West Bengal, villagers

Publication Date:

14/11/2006

Author(s): Archita Bhatta

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Archaeological Survey Of India (ASI), History, India, West Bengal, Birbhum

Economy

IN COURT

Ganga Action Plan

Publication Date:

14/11/2006

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

15

Issue:

20061115

pp:

0

Tags:

River Pollution, Oil Pollution, Water Quality, Ganga Action Plan, Petrochemical Industry, Supreme Court, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), United States Of America (US), Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), West Bengal

India

Water doesn't drain in Kolkata, West Bengal

Click here to enlarge Kolkata went under water on September 24, 2006. The Meteorological Office said that Kolkata received 211.6 mm of rain on 22 September. That

Publication Date:

30/10/2006

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Drainage, Floods, Urbanisation, Urban Waterlogging, India, West Bengal, Calcutta (D), Rainfall

India

Growing organic tea in northeast India is a difficult task

It is not a widely known fact, but 25 per cent of the total tea produced in West Bengal and Assam, and other northeastern states is produced by small growers. Their contribution to the total national

Publication Date:

14/10/2006

Author(s): Anjali Pathak

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

North East, Organic Farming, Pesticides, Pest Control, Plantation Crops, Tea, Food Standards, Trade, Farmers, Exports, Life Science, NGO, India, Assam, West Bengal

India

Polio spreads in Indian states

The polio outbreak that began in Moradabad district in western Uttar Pradesh is spreading. Cases have been confirmed in central Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Chandigarh and West Bengal, says the monthly

Publication Date:

14/10/2006

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

15

Issue:

20061015

pp:

0

Tags:

Polio, India, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal

India

Review of film <i>The name of the disease</i>

The Name of the Disease

Publication Date:

14/10/2006

Author(s): Anna Simpson

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Health Care, Health Personnel, Cinema, Myths, India, West Bengal

Economy

Were district choices for NFFWP appropriate?

The National Food for Work Programme (NFFWP), launched in 2004, identified 50 backward districts, where employment guarantee scheme was to get started. The 150 districts were identified by the Planning Commission on the basis of three criteria, Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST) population, agricultural productivity per worker, and agricultural wage rate in the district. The author find that the final choice for the NFFWP was not consistent with the methodology mentioned, nor can it be defended by using other measures of backwardness.

Publication Date:

01/10/2006

Author(s): Santanu Gupta

Source: Journal of Indian School of Political Economy

Vol:

18

Issue:

4

pp:

641

Tags:

Scheduled Castes, Tribals, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Politics, India, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, West Bengal, Rural Poverty, Planning Commission

Mining

Environmental problems analysis of coal mining in Raniganj & Asansol using GIS

Coal mining destroys or significantly alters all the physical features that influence the capabilities of the land. Mining is the only land use for a long time without reclamation mining operations usually produce large qualities of wastes, overburden and under grade ore materials etc.

Publication Date:

01/10/2006

Author(s): Avadhesh Kumar Koshal

Source: GIS Development

Tags:

Environment, Coal, Remote Sensing, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), West Bengal, Mining

India

Question on employment guarantee scheme's success

function table() { var popurl="image/20060930/43-table.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=575,height=500,scrollbars=yes") } It's been six months since the National Rural

Publication Date:

29/09/2006

Author(s): Minakshi Thakur

Source: Down to Earth

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