-The Hindu The Aam Aadmi Party's proposal of 666 litres of free water a day raises the alarming prospect of further disadvantaging the already deprived sections of Delhi who get no piped water at all The Twelfth Five Year Plan has proposed a paradigm shift in water management in India. One of our key proposals relates to urban water. In many ways, it could be said that the crisis of water and...
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UP govt outsourced relief work to communal outfits: Report -Rakhi Chakrabarty
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: A fact-finding team of intellectuals from JNU and Delhi University (DU), hit out at the Samajwadi Party government in UP, alleging it has outsourced relief work for Muzaffarnagar riot victims to Muslim communal organizations like the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind. After several visits to riot-ravaged Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts, the team comprising Dr Mohan Rao and oncologist Dr Vikas Bajpai, and Hindu College professor Ish Mishra released its...
More »More than half of rural households get no potable water at home: NSSO-Somesh Jha
-The Business Standard More than half of the households in villages in the country had no drinking water facilities within their homes in 2012 Safe drinking water, which was in the priority list of the manifestos of many political parties, is not within the reach of more than half of the total households in rural areas of India. Besides, the proportion of households not having this facility in urban areas rose slightly...
More »34 kids died in camps for riot victims, admits UP govt
-The Times of India LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday admitted that 34 children - all below 12 years - died at the relief camps in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts between September 7 and December 20, 2013. The death toll was confirmed by the high-powered committee constituted by the government to look into the deaths of infants as reported by the media. The panel submitted its report to the government on...
More »1200 tons of apples and potatoes rot in Uttarkhand -Seema Sharma
-The Times of India DEHRADUN: Around 1200 tons of apples and potatoes have rotted in areas affected by the June flash floods in Uttarkhand as the Garhwal Mandal Vikas Nigam (GMVN) could not move them to the markets due to poor connectivity of roads. Many roads are still not in a passable state in the region. The GMVN has suffered huge losses. GMVN's general manager of marketing PratAP Shah said, "GMVN had no...
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