-The Hindu In the newly proposed draft notification seeking to amend the Environment Impact Assessment, the Central government offers a way out to those who have violated environmental norms The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF) has issued a draft notification seeking to amend the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) of 2006, allowing those who violate this law to continue work with an Environment Supplement Plan (ESP). This is the first...
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New global report ranks India poorly in reduction of anaemia, malnutrition, diabetes -Aradhna Wal
-DNA The report says India is off course on meeting reduction targets for stunting, anaemia, adult overweight, obesity and diabetes. Yet another global report pointed out India’s worrying performance on various health indicators. India has had consistent poor rankings for stunting and wasting in children under five years of age, anaemia in women and diabetes in adult. The Global Nutrition Report 2016, ranked India 114 for under-5 stunting out of 132 countries,...
More »India's Challenge: A New Information Revolution -Vivek Ramkumar & Subrat Das
-USNews.com Allowing the public to see government at work can help tackle corruption in the country. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives in Washington, D.C., this week to meet with President Obama and address a joint session of the U.S. Congress — the first such address by an Indian leader in more than a decade. In the U.S., India is known for its expertise in information technology. Less well known are India's innovations...
More »Citizens have right to safe water, say draft legislation -Jacob Koshy
-The Hindu ‘Groundwater will not be a free resource’ New Delhi: The government has for the first time said that Citizens had a right to safe water and laid out stringent rules on how corporations and large entities can extract groundwater in two separate pieces of draft legislation uploaded on the website of the Union Water Ministry and open for public comment. The Bills —in a first — also propose fines ranging from...
More »Draft water bill proposes ‘water for life’ for all -Amitabh Sinha
-The Indian Express Draft law says water shall not be denied to anyone over inability to pay, being proposed as model legislation for states. A proposed new law on water promises to give every person the right to a minimum amount of “safe water”, while making the state “obliged” to “protect” and conserve water. The draft National Water Framework Bill says every person would be entitled to “water for life” that shall...
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