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  How did it go wrong?

  The corrupt and inefficient among pollution control authorities have surrendered India s groundwater to unscrupulous industrial units

  • 30/08/1999

  • • Groundwater Pollution
    • Groundwater
    • Wells
    • Heavy Metals
    • Arsenic
    • Health Effects
    • Waste Disposal
    • Industry
    • Governance
    • Andhra Pradesh
    • Gujarat
    • Haryana
    • Corruption

• We cannot turn the clock back

  The need of the hour is to reconcile apparently irreconcilable interests

  • 30/07/1992

  • • Environment
    • Displacement
    • Rehabilitation
    • India
    • Gujarat
    • Narmada Valley Project
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  Country s waste, Gujarat s wealth

  Industrialists who have been shown the door elsewhere in the country find welcoming arms in Gujarat. The state seems to be allowing industries that have been rejected elsewhere due to environmental concerns to set up shop

  • 30/07/1996

  • Down To Earth
  • • Industry
    • India
    • Gujarat
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  New look for seven Indian cities

  spurred by the success of the Taj eco-city project

  • 14/09/2002

  • Down To Earth
  • • Environment
    • Sanitation
    • India
    • Andhra Pradesh
    • Gujarat
    • Jharkhand
    • Madhya Pradesh
    • Meghalaya
    • Rajasthan
    • Uttar Pradesh

• Gujarat announces Rs 13 crore scheme for state's poor

  gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on March 29, 2007, announced a Rs 13-crore scheme for the state's urban poor. The programme, called Garib Samriddhi Scheme, envisages, among other things,

  • 30/05/2007

  • Down To Earth
  • • Urban Planning
    • Nagarpalikas
    • Urban Housing
    • Slums
    • Slum Upgrading
    • Poverty
    • Anti-Poverty Programmes
    • NGO
    • Awards
    • India
    • Gujarat
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  R Devendra

  Kedar, Tamil Nadu

  • 14/07/2001

  • • Soil Erosion
    • Agriculture
    • Fodder
    • Water Conservation
    • Water Harvesting
    • Drinking Water
    • Dams
    • Afforestation
    • Watershed Development
    • Gujjar
    • Women
    • Panchayats
    • CSE
    • Gujarat
    • Madhya Pradesh
    • Rajasthan
    • Tamil Nadu
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  Fast food

  <font class='UCASE'>pushpesh pant</font> rediscovers Amaranth once the poor man s grain, today an expensive health food

  • 14/10/2002

  • Down To Earth
  • • Agriculture
    • Fast Foods
    • Traditional Knowledge
    • Gujarat
    • Jammu & Kashmir
    • Madhya Pradesh
    • Maharashtra
    • Tamil Nadu

• The wretched of the earth

  The Dangis have been systematically stripped of their wealth and their rights and today they rank among the poorest

  • 14/06/1995

  • • Forests
    • Tribals
    • Community Groups
    • Gujarat

• We need a different approach

  Down To Earth spoke to D K Biswas, chairperson, Central Pollution Control Board, about the seriousness of groundwater pollution. Excerpts:

  • 30/08/1999

  • • Groundwater Pollution
    • Groundwater
    • Wells
    • Heavy Metals
    • Arsenic
    • Health Effects
    • Waste Disposal
    • Industry
    • Governance
    • Andhra Pradesh
    • Gujarat
    • Haryana
    • Corruption
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  Western tragedy

  Eerie silence is all that is countering environmental pollution

  • 14/04/2000

  • • River Pollution
    • Waste Disposal
    • Industry
    • Gujarat
    • Maharashtra
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  Saltpan workers in Gujarat served eviction notice from sanctuary

  thousands of saltpan workers, called Agarias, from 107 villages in Gujarat's Rajkot, Surendranagar, Patan and Kutch districts face displacement with the Gujarat forest department serving them an

  • 30/05/2007

  • Down To Earth
  • • Forests
    • Salt
    • Displacement
    • Workers
    • Rehabilitation
    • Compensation
    • Wild Ass
    • Sanctuaries
    • India
    • Gujarat
    • Kuchchh
    • Patan
    • Rajkot
    • Surendranagar (D)

• Bent keys

  Corruption finished off a movement which could have unlocked the door to prosperity

  • 14/06/1995

  • • Forests
    • Tribals
    • Community Groups
    • Gujarat
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  No way back

  Once polluted by industry, groundwater is very difficult to clean up. This is the lesson learnt from the Bichhri experience. Situated about 12 km from Udaipur, the groundwater of Bichhri, spread over

  • 30/08/1999

  • • Groundwater Pollution
    • Groundwater
    • Wells
    • Heavy Metals
    • Arsenic
    • Health Effects
    • Waste Disposal
    • Industry
    • Governance
    • Andhra Pradesh
    • Gujarat
    • Haryana
    • Corruption

• Bytes

  best space songs

  • 14/06/2007

  • Down To Earth
  • • Health
    • Tribals
    • Birds
    • Life Science
    • Physical Science
    • Research
    • Fossils
    • Europe
    • Belgium
    • Denmark
    • France
    • Germany
    • Italy
    • Netherlands
    • Norway
    • Spain
    • Sweden
    • Switzerland
    • Australia
    • Gujarat
    • Diseases
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  African invasion

  African locusts, which have been infesting parts of Gujarat and Rajasthan since mid-July, are keeping pest control experts on their toes. The agriculture ministry has pressed into action two

  • 30/08/1993

  • Down To Earth
  • • Agriculture
    • Crop Pests
    • Pesticides
    • Pest Control
    • Gujarat
    • Rajasthan
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  The road ahead

  The current method of environmental regulation has failed to monitor industrial pollution in India. It is not just ineffective but expensive too. Some countries are using alternative approaches but with mixed results

  • 30/07/2001

  • • Environment
    • Pollution Control
    • Waste Disposal
    • Industry
    • Legislation
    • CSE
    • India
    • Andhra Pradesh
    • Bihar
    • Gujarat
    • Himachal Pradesh
    • Rajasthan
    • Pollution
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  Book The economics of biodiversity conservation valuation in tropical forest ecosystems

  Book>> The Economics of Biodiversity Conservation

  • 30/12/2007

  • • Ecosystems
    • Ecosystem Services
    • Western Ghats
    • Forest Resources
    • Tropical Forests
    • Forest Products
    • Tribals
    • Compensation
    • National Parks
    • Wildlife And People
    • Biodiversity
    • Gujarat
    • Karnataka
    • Kerala
    • Maharashtra

• More roars in Gir!

  the guessing game regarding the number of Asiatic lions ( Panthera leo persica ) in Gujarat's Gir Sanctuary has come to an end. According to a census conducted by the sanctuary officials,

  • 14/06/2001

  • Down To Earth
  • • Wildlife
    • Lion
    • Gir NP
    • Poaching
    • India
    • Gujarat
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  Republic quaked

  Gujarat is paying a heavy price for a calamity that is by far the biggest government made disaster since Independence. As the state crawls out from a landscape of debris, it appears as the most imposing symbol of a system that is in comatose, though not d

  • 27/02/2001

  • • Monuments
    • Natural Disasters
    • Earthquakes
    • Disaster Management
    • Disaster Preparedness
    • Disaster Housing
    • Building Technology
    • Construction Industry
    • Governance
    • India
    • Delhi
    • Gujarat
    • Bhuj

• Shifting focus

  the World Bank ( wb ) has decided to stop investing in common effluent treatment plants ( cetp s) in Gujarat. Instead, it will assist in adoption of cleaner production technologies that

  • 14/12/2000

  • Down To Earth
  • • Pollution Control
    • Aid
    • Industry
    • World Bank
    • Gujarat
    • Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP)