-TheWire.in While the dam breach in Madhya Pradesh's Karam River is a recent example of poor construction quality, the politician-contractor-engineer nexus in these projects has long been known. In his eighth Independence Day speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort on August 15, 2022, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi underlined the need to fight against corruption and nepotism. Highlighting the steps his government has taken to check corruption, Modi said: “In the...
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Uttar Pradesh: One dead, nearly 2.4 lakh people in 22 districts affected by floods
-PTI/DNA Uttar Pradesh rains: 26 teams of NDRF and SDRF have been pressed into action while food packets are being distributed in the flooded areas. One person has died in floods that have affected nearly 2.4 lakh people in over 1,000 villages of Uttar Pradesh's 22 districts, officials said on Tuesday. According to them, of the 1,079 flood-affected villages, 153 have been cut off from the rest of the state. As many as...
More »How we turned natural floods into monsoon mayhem by squeezing our Rivers -Darpan Singh
-IndiaToday.in From Assam to Odisha and in many other states, floods were a natural phenomenon. But we turned them into monsoon mayhem by squeezing our Rivers. Here is why we must rethink our response to this annual crisis. Every monsoon, lakhs of people in Indian states such as Bihar, Assam, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal are affected by floods when Rivers swell and spread their waters amid pounding rain. Hundreds of men,...
More »Is investing in canal irrigation a bad idea? -A Narayanamoorthy
-The Hindu Business Line Lack of data and monitoring on cropping patterns and water use has given irrigation schemes a bad name Long before the British Raj, India was a pioneer in canal irrigation by building dams across Rivers. After Independence, considering the importance of canal irrigation, the Central and State governments have been giving increased thrust to its development. Today, India is one of the countries with the largest number of...
More »Why are Madhya Pradesh farmers throwing away their garlic crops? -Rakesh Kumar Malviya
-Down to Earth The production of the allium has doubled in the last decade; Chinese, Iranian garlic with larger cloves in greater demand, say farmers There have been several calls to allow garlic export after several video clips on social media showed farmers from Madhya Pradesh throwing out or burning their crops, allegedly over low prices of the allium. One clip making rounds showed the crop being dumped into a River, while another...
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