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Jal Jeevan Mission in UP: Few Taps In Banda, Taps But Not Enough Water in Baghpat -Shreehari Paliath,Geeta Devi and Meera Devi

-India Spend More than 50% of rural households are reported to have functional household tapWater connections under the Jal Jeevan Mission. But does this translate into availability of Water for the rural poor? Banda, Baghpat and Bengaluru: "We drink whatever quality Water we can get," says Munni Devi, a Dalit worker who lives in Banda district of Uttar Pradesh (UP). "Of course we get sick, but we don't have any other choice....

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Repeated multi-year droughts hit India over last 1,000 years, Water policies need reassessment: Study -Rohini Krishnamurthy

-Down to Earth Southwest monsoon could switch into a drought-prone mode, lasting decades in the future India witnessed repeated multi-year droughts over the last thousand years, predominately before 1871, a new study has predicted. This contrasts with the drought history of the post-1871 era. The country saw only one instance of a three-year-long drought during this period, from 1985-1987, the study published September 19, 2022, in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy...

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CM says Punjab ready for crop diversification, seeks assured remunerative prices to farmers

-The Pioneer Ludhiana: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Friday said that the state is fully ready to adopt crop diversification but the Central Government must provide an assured mechanism to give remunerative prices for these crops. “The Centre must take this step for ensuring that the state’s farmers shift from Water guzzling crops to less Water consuming crops,” said the Chief Minister while addressing a gathering after inaugurating the Kisan Mela...

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No Transparency, Accountability or Public Participation when ISA Approves Exploratory Deep-Sea Mining

-Press release by Mineral Inheritors Rights Association (MIRA) dated September 21, 2022  The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) declares that the area beyond the limits of national jurisdiction (comprising the seabed, ocean floor and subsoil, excluding the Water above) (the “Area”) and its resources, are the Common Heritage of Humankind. All rights in the resources of the Area are vested in humankind as a whole. UNCLOS provides...

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Why this is going to be a tough year for economic policymaking -Montek Singh Ahluwalia

-Livemint.com The RBI will face the difficult choice of either intervening strongly to ‘manage volatility’ at the risk of losing reserves or letting the currency ‘find its own level’. India’s ministry of finance struck an upbeat note in its August economic review when it asserted growth is “robust" and inflation is “under control". It then quite rightly balanced the optimism with the qualification “there is no room for complacency". Truth be told,...

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