The Bikaner Development Authority Bill, 2025
<p>The Bikaner Development Authority Bill, 2025, passed by the Rajasthan Assembly, aims to establish a Bikaner Development Authority to regulate development activities in the Bikaner district. The bill
Planning
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Testing time
Revisits by Down To Earth reporters to villages that undertook water harvesting offer some valuable lessons in drought management
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Think institution
The need of the hour is to decentralise drought management and think long term
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Plans gone awry
at least 85-90 per cent villagers in the Kachhch district of Gujarat do not want to be relocated. Most of the houses in the district were destroyed by the earthquake that struck Gujarat on
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ECOFRIENDLY PLAN
The Pakistan government will soon launch an integrated
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More clean energy
the Union ministry of non-conven tional energy sources ( mnes ) is planning to increase the output of non-conventional energy sector by 10 per cent. The ministry hopes to achieve its aim
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COASTLINE CONSERVATION
The Sri Lankan government is implementing a Rs 557 million master plan in Wennappuwa for the conservation of the western and south western coastlines. The project is going to be implemented by the
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INDIA
Haryana government has set up a multi-discipline panel to identify long-term integrated strategies focusing on improved land, conservation and sustainable management of land and water resources.
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Bottom to top
<i> The administrative restructuring which has decentralised planning </i>
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A billion strong or weak?
Recently, India crossed the one billion population mark. The question on everyone s lips is what does the future hold for babies born this century in terms of natural resources and the environment? Given below are the views of people from different walks
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Clean air at any cost
the administrators of Hong Kong have set 2005 as the deadline within which time they will try and clean the city's heavily polluted air. The region's air pollution index hit an all-time high and its