-The Hindu The Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana scheme, which recognises the importance of clean cooking energy, is welcome. But we need to focus on issues of cash flow, awareness, availability and administration Within a fortnight of the recently announced Union Budget, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana, earmarking Rs. 8,000 crore for it, with the aim of providing five crore subsidised Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG)...
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'40 Percent People in India May Not Have Water to Drink by 2030' -Namrata
-The New Indian Express NEW DELHI: Forty percent of India's population may not have drinking Water by 2030, if the Water crisis in country is not met seriously, a study has warned. With the country facing a grave Water crisis and lack of Water conservation, the availability of potable Water and ground Water has decreased over the years which would result in severe situation in the country after a decade, said an...
More »Govt. to focus on Swachh Bharat on second anniversary -Somesh Jha
-The Hindu It has drafted a detailed plan for 2016-17 with different themes. The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government will mark its second anniversary with all the Ministries taking mass pledges on the Swachh Bharat portal on May 26 this year. In a bid to make Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pet project Swachh Bharat Mission a mass movement, the government has drafted a detailed plan for every day of 2016-17 with different themes...
More »Women take solar lights to the fields -Tanushree Gangopadhyay
-CivilSocietyOnline.com Ahmedabad: For nearly two years, the mosque in a village in Kashmir would be enveloped in darkness when the sun dipped. It had no electricity. A woman equipped with the requisite training from the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) offered to light up the mosque with solar lights. But the men would not allow it. Lighting up the mosque is not a woman’s job, they said. After much persuasion, the maulvi...
More »Recharge groundWater to keep taps flowing, say experts -Sanjeeb Mukherjee
-Business Standard India should invest in mapping the country's aquifers and take steps to aid groundWater recharge to check a looming Water crisis, experts said. With 40 per cent of the country under the impact of consecutive failed monsoons, Water rationing could become a norm in many parts of the country in the coming summer, they warned. According to a recent Central Water Commission report, Water levels in the Maharashtra reservoirs are 58...
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