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ON March 8, the Narmada Control Authority (NCA) gave the green signal to raise the height of the Sardar Sarovar dam from 110.64 metres to 121.92 m.
- 05/05/2006
- Frontline (Chennai)
The Narmada saga

1947: The Central Waterways Irrigation and Navigation Commission, acting on the request of the Central Provinces, Berar (now part of the Vidarbha region in Maharashtra) and the Government of Bombay, begins a study of the Navagram project (renamed Sardar Sarovar Project in 1978) for developing the Narmada river system.
- 05/05/2006
- Frontline (Chennai)
- - Narmada
  - Dams
  - Supreme Court
  - Medha Patkar
  - Gujarat
  - Madhya Pradesh
  - Maharashtra
No give

Maharashtra villagers fight land acquisition for IT park
- 29/04/2006
- Down To Earth
Impotent plan?

In August 2005, the Indian Parliament passed the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act <font class='UCASE'>nrega</font> . The latest avatar of state financed employment guarantee schemes <font class='UCASE'>egs</font> geared to alleviate rural povert
- 29/04/2006
The EGS record

In Maharashtra its done well, and not
- 29/04/2006
- - Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS)
  - Maharashtra
How EGS started

A unique public works programme
- 29/04/2006
Rs 85,303 crore bust

So much spent on rural employment
- 29/04/2006
Private water, public misery

Privatisation of water is taking root in India, often aided by political and bureaucratic corruption. Alongside, resistance to this is also building up.
- 21/04/2006
- Frontline (Chennai)
Avian returns

Bird flu resurfaces, exposes weakness of testing system
- 14/04/2006
- Down To Earth
Rich and well connected

Online land records good tool for land grabbing
- 30/03/2006
- - India
  - Maharashtra
  - Internet
  - Computers
..Logged out

Questions over Maharashtra s online land records
- 30/03/2006
- Down To Earth
Boon or bane?

WB walks out of Mumbai urban transport project
- 30/03/2006
- Down To Earth
Rigorous penalty

To address the problem of power shortage in the coming summer, the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (merc) has decided to penalise power intensive consumers. merc has directed all
- 30/03/2006
Soft drink ban proposed

Maharashtra FDA recommends
- 30/03/2006
Long yarn

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- 30/03/2006
- - Agricultural Inputs
  - Seeds
  - Cotton
  - Irrigation
  - Farmers
  - Gujarat
  - Maharashtra
  - Debt
Villages for sale in Vidarbha

"Kidney Sale Centre," proclaims a banner sprawled across a ramshackle bamboo tent at Shingnapur village in Amravati district of Maharashtra. The farmers here are threatening to sell their kidneys. "We have invited the Prime Minister and the President to inaugurate this kidney shop. They should allow us to sell our kidneys. We are all ruined by debt. Many farmers are killing themselves.
- 24/03/2006
- Frontline (Chennai)
- - Agriculture
  - Cotton
  - Farmers
  - Maharashtra
  - Amravati (D)
  - Debt
No more slumming

Builders may 'get big bonanza in Dharavi
- 14/03/2006
- Down To Earth
- - Slums
  - Slum Upgrading
  - Rehabilitation
  - Asia
  - Maharashtra
  - Mumbai
Blind to the cause

Rehabilitation authority to ignore controversial projects
- 14/03/2006
- Down To Earth
Who flew?

Is influenza afflicting government?
- 14/03/2006
- WHO
Losing game

Household poultry gets a raw deal
- 14/03/2006

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The Narmada saga

No give

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How EGS started

Rs 85,303 crore bust

Private water, public misery

Avian returns

Rich and well connected

..Logged out

Boon or bane?

Rigorous penalty

Soft drink ban proposed

Long yarn

Villages for sale in Vidarbha

No more slumming

Blind to the cause

Who flew?

Losing game

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