-The Times of India BANGALORE: Safe drinking water for all is a common promise in the manifestos of all political parties. Yet, villagers in North Karnataka are drinking water with high arsenic content, said a Comptroller and Auditor General report released on Thursday. Though the National Rural Drinking Water Mission looked into the issue, it made a conscious effort to keep itself away from the high-cost treatment technologies to deal with arsenic...
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Bidar farmer’s resourcefulness pays off-Rishikesh Bahadur Desai
-The Hindu ‘We have cashew on over 150 acres in the district now' Bidar: Vidya Sagar Patil still remembers the reactions of his neighbours when he decided to plant cashew on his family's land at Malchapur four years ago. "They thought I was mad. Some were blunt enough to tell me to my face, while others just gave me a weird look. After a while I stopped reasoning it out with them and...
More »Safe drinking water to rural areas a distant dream: CAG
-The Hindu Of the 112 projects approved between 2008-12, none were completed Bangalore: The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has said there is "no indication of that all habitations would have access to safe drinking water anytime in the near future" given the pace of coverage and competition of projects under National Rural Drinking Water Programme is very slow. The CAG report on Local Bodies for the period 2007-12, which was...
More »Tribal affairs ministry 'turning tables' on SC order on Niyamgiri mining rights -Nitin Sethi
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Despite the Supreme Court's order, the village councils, or gram sabhas of the Dongria Kondh tribals may not be able to decide upon their traditional and religious rights against the mining interests of Vedanta. A narrow interpretation of the SC order by the tribal affairs ministry promises to turn the district administration into the final decision-making body and the village councils of the tribals as...
More »Delhi can’t send forces for polls
-The Telegraph Kolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee said today that New Delhi had turned down the state's request for 300 companies of central forces for the panchayat elections. Mamata said the Centre's inability to spare forces was the reason that held her back from making such a request that was necessitated by a court ruling. But sources in the state election commission said the state had done "too little, too late" and the...
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