The issue of sharing West Asia's water resources threatens to explode into another Arab Israeli war, which will shatter the semblance of peace settling over the region.
Karnataka's new panchayati raj law has sparked a debate, with the Congress government saying it gives the people more power and opposition politicians contending it does not.
Under the 1983 act, the panchayati raj structure consisted of four tiers gram sabha, mandal panchayat, taluka panchayat samiti and zillah parishads. The mandal panchayat and zillah parishad were elected bodies with executive functions. Between these tw
Under the 1983 act, the village assembly the lowest level of panchayati raj, from where the primary inputs for development should have come was the most neglected.
Medleri village lies in the semi-arid tract of Rannebennur taluka in Dharwad district. It has a population of about 6,000. Dry, degraded, red, stony soil, remnants of failed tubewells and
A 35-ha subabul plantation raised on a pasture in 1984 was handed over to Airni village in 1987 to manage. But in 1990, the mandal pradhan allegedly sold the plantation to a small wood contractor,
While the cultivation of paddy in Punjab (and Haryana) does need some curbing, the extreme forebodings of either total groundwater exhaustion in Punjab or of the state turning into a desert of paddy growing is not curbed forthwith are unwarranted.
For more than a century, the people of Motepur used to build an earthen dam on the Punpun river every two years. Today, wage labour has replaced voluntary service and a cement dam threatens to blot out a unique water harvesting system.
