Three affected villages did not receive copies of the environmental impact assessment report Despite it being Akshaya Trithiya, more than 1,000 people turned up for the hearing About 2,300 people have lost land to the project Angry protests stalled a public hearing of the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project (JNPP) at Madban village in Maharashtra on Sunday. Only after officials acknowledged their mistake of not providing copies of the environmental impact assessment (EIA)...
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Make land losers beneficiaries of acquisition: Supreme Court by J Venkatesan
Revisit century-old Act, Bench asks Parliament, Law Commission Expressing concern over the plight of farmers and others whose rights are affected when their land is acquired for development, the Supreme Court has said there is need for Parliament and the Law Commission to revisit the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, which is more than a century old. Acquisition affects the vital rights of farmers and gives rise to litigation and agitations, said...
More »Seed makers move court against AP order on Bt cottonseed price
Mahyco-Monsanto challenges State's move on royalty fee. “In the last one decade, the cost of seeds for several crops has gone up by more than 400 per cent.” The National Seeds Association of India (NSAI) has filed a petition in the Andhra Pradesh High Court challenging the State Government order that fixed the maximum sale price (MSP) of Bt cottonseed at last year's levels, even as several farmers' organisations and non-governmental...
More »How to be an ‘eligible suicide' by P Sainath
Why do governments ignore the farm suicide numbers of the National Crime Records Bureau, when it is the only authentic source on the subject? Kafka might have envied the script. In Delhi, Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar informed the Rajya Sabha on May 7 that there had been just six farmers' suicides in Vidarbha since January. The same day, same time in Maharashtra, Chief Minister Ashok Chavan said that figure...
More »Greenhouse gas emissions fell by 30% during 1994-2007
ISRO will launch a dedicated satellite to track such emissions in 2012 “Our expertise on climate change should start influencing global discourse” India has released its first greenhouse gas emissions inventory since 1994 — showing a 30 per cent fall in the emissions intensity of the GDP from that date till 2007 — even as it announced several measures to improve the domestic study of climate change. From ISRO satellites to monitor India's...
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