-The Hindu The draft law on acquisition strikes a balance between development and justice for those who will be displaced in the process India is a rapidly industrialising economy and society with intense demands for better infrastructure from its people. The last 20 years have seen a great acceleration in this process, with India becoming one of the world’s fastest growing economies. However, for those whose lands were acquired for these purposes...
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Women and Girls at Heart of the Blue Revolution-Lakshmi Puri
-IPS News World Water Week recently concluded in Stockholm with a special emphasis on the linkages between Water and food security. From the worst drought in 56 years in the United States Midwest, to the Karnataka’s drought in India, to the protracted drought in the Sahel region of West Africa, we have also seen how in our globalised world the nexus between lack of Water and food security in one corner of...
More »Harda's jal satyagraha: Prohibitory orders imposed, protesters may be arrested-Siddharth Ranjan Das and Abhinav Bhatt
-NDTV Harda, Madhya Pradesh: A day after the victory of those sitting on a jal satyagraha in Madhya Pradesh's Khandwa district, the focus today shifted to Harda where a similar protest is going on for the last 13 days. More than 30 villagers are sitting here in neck-deep Water demanding the Water level in the Indira Sagar Dam be brought down to 260 metres from 262 metres, and rehabilitation of affected...
More »Dam contractor to hold meet on linking rivers -Gargi Parsai
-The Hindu The Water Resources Ministry has sought the help of L. Rajagopal — the businessman-cum-Member of Parliament from Vijayawada with major interests in large-scale Water projects — to organise an event on Wednesday on interlinking of rivers. Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal will be the chief guest at the “Dialogue on Inter Linking of Rivers: Issues and Challenges.” Mr. Rajagopal is the chairman of the Organising Committee for the event...
More »Micro irrigation answer to depleting ground Water level: Sharad Pawar
-PTI Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar today said the ground Water level in the country is decreasing and there is an urgent need to check this through encouraging micro irrigation. "The ground Water table in the country has come down in the last few years and in order to check this we should work with technologies like drip and sprinkler irrigation, which minimises loss of Water," Pawar said in his inaugural address at...
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