-The Times of India KOLHAPUR: A team of three experts from the National Environment Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) arrived in Kolhapur on Monday to study the impact of pollution on the Panchganga River. The experts held meetings with officials of the Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC), the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) and environmental experts. "The team conducted a series of meeting on day one. The team is expected to visit locations by tomorrow....
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Outsiders in Kutch’s mini-Punjab: Sikh farmers battling for their land -Satish Jha
-The Indian Express Kutch (Gujarat): Bhajan Singh, 62, remembers the time curious villagers turned up to see a borewell his father Gopal Singh had dug up. The year was 1969 and it was the first time Sumrasar village, near Bhuj in Kutch district, had had a borewell. Few had ever seen it work, as they depended entirely on rainwater for the barely one crop they harvested a year. Originally from Pakistan, Gopal...
More »Panel may order recovery of Rs 60,000 crore from Odisha miners
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Union Cabinet on Thursday referred the MB Shah commission of inquiry report on illegal mining in Odisha to the committee of secretaries (CoS) to suggest further action which may include recovery of nearly Rs 60,000 crore from the miners and a CBI probe into roles of public servants in allocating mines to private companies. The commission has severely indicted both the Centre and the Odisha government...
More »Water priorities for urban India-Mihir Shah
-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...
More »Rivulet resurrected in 45 days -Jitendra
-Down to Earth Thousands of people working under NREGS bring a 38 km stream back from the dead in Uttar Pradesh Thirty nine-year-old Ram Ishwar gave up farming to pull a rickshaw outside the railway station in Uttar Pradesh's Fatehpur town. He says scarcity of water and a resultant increase in the cost of irrigation rendered farming unprofitable. Wheat production from his 0.4 hectare (ha) farmland shrank from one tonne to half...
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