-The Hindu The proposal, mooted at a review meeting on Namami Ganga, will take six States on board before installation. The Centre has proposed the setting up and maintenance of SEWAge Treatment Plants (STPs) in all the 118 cities and towns located along the Ganga in a time-bound manner to check pollution of the river. To be built and maintained through a special purpose vehicle, these STPs will be paid for by the...
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Farmers oppose drive against SEWAge farming
-The Times of India BHOPAL: Farmers opposed drive against SEWAge farming undertaken by district administration near Shahpura here on Sunday. They pleaded that their vegetables had been checked by the health department and were found suitable for human consumption. Around 50 families own 100 acres of land in the area. About 10-12 acres of vegetables were destroyed by a team of administration. The farmers also told the administration team that they were not...
More »It's trust vs certification -Aparna Pallavi
-Down to Earth For farmers, trust sells more than organic licence A FOOD SAFETY and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) official walked into Restore, an organic food store at Kottivakkam in Chennai. He picked up a packet of rice off the shelf and noticed some bugs in it. "How can you sell groceries with bugs?" he asked. The staff told him their customers buy their goods precisely because of the bugs in...
More »State power sans public reason -Yogendra Yadav
-The Hindu The government's reasoning that the land ordinance was meant to extend the benefit of the new law to various types of land acquisitions left uncovered so far is disingenuous Democracy is an exercise in public reason. Democratically elected governments cannot simply throw around the weight of their majority. They have a responsibility to offer good reasons for their decisions. And they must do so publicly. That is why we follow...
More »'Will you clean up Ganga in this term or the next?' SC to Centre
-The Hindustan Times For the second time in five months, the Supreme Court has pulled up the NDA government for the delay in cleaning up of the Ganga, a pet project of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Centre has now told the court it will finish the mega project to clean up the 2,525km-long river by 2018. Bringing up the slow progress on the three-decade-old Ganga Action Plan, the SC Wednesday wondered...
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