-Hindustan Times It is also important to remember that both these laws were the product of sustained, grassroots-level social movements. Consequently, perhaps the surest remedy against possible future dilution may lie not in judicial challenges (although that remains important), but in popular mobilisation. With the 2019 general election yielding a decisive mandate for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), attention will soon turn to the new government’s legislative agenda. As the government is...
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Short-duration crops take a hit as water crisis strikes Tamil Nadu -TE Narasimhan
-Business Standard Every day before 5 am and after 10 pm, 40-year-old K Kasturi and her husband leave their home in Mylapore, Central Chennai, in search of water with eight vessels. If they are lucky, they may be able to fetch water from hand pumps or taps in five vessels after walking 1-1.5 km. This is the only source of water to drink, cook, wash, clean and bathe for them. This is...
More »Deficient pre-monsoon rains put almost half of India on drought alert -Nitin Sethi
-Business Standard Nearly two-thirds of the country's area has recorded either deficient or highly deficient rains As the new government gets sworn in on Thursday, one of its PRIorities would be to help states, particularly those in the south, to tackle deep drought. More than 40 per cent of the area of the country may face drought, according to the Drought Early Warning System run by the IIT, Gandhinagar. Of this, nearly...
More »NGT directs all states to follow Haryana's example, create inventory of water bodies -Prayag Arora-Desai
-Hindustan Times The CPCB itself has been given a month’s time to publish the guidelines for restoration water bodies, not presently protected by any national legislation which protects water bodies more than 2.5 acres in size. Gurugram: The National Green Tribunal (NGT), last week, instructed all states and Union territories to follow Haryana’s example and create detailed inventories of water bodies not already protected by any law, review their existing framework...
More »Cities at crossroads: Federalism for the city -Isher Judge Ahluwalia
-The Indian Express In his second term, PRIme Minister Modi can ensure better urbanisation through greater devolution of power, and finances, to urban local bodies. As PRIme Minister Narendra Modi begins his second term with an even larger political mandate, it is time to reflect on what should be the PRIorities in fixing our cities. The scale of the challenge is massive whether we look at the availability of clean drinking...
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