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
Land Use
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Audit report on performance audit of 'land allotment' in Andhra Pradesh for the year 2011-2012
<p><span id="itro1">This performance audit report on land allotment by CAG covering the period 2006 to 2011 has identified serious irregularities in land allotments by the Government of Andhra Pradesh.</span></p>
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Deforestation around the world
Deforestation and forest degradation represent a significant fraction of the annual worldwide human-induced emission of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, the main source of biodiversity losses and the
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Draft zoning and development promotion regulation – 2031 for Hyderabad Metropolitan Region
The salient features / highlights of the Draft Metropolitan Development Plan are: The projected population of HMDA area for 2031 is 1.84 crores, The Base Map is prepared on the basis of Satellite Image
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How to make cities more resilient: a handbook for local government leaders
This report provides mayors, governors, councillors and other local government leaders with a generic framework for risk reduction and points to good practices and tools that are already being applied
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Integrated hydrological data book, 2012
Integrated Hydrological Data Book is a compendium of important hydrological information on major basins consolidated at the national level. This present issue of the data book provides updated basin/site-wise
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Nagaland action plan on climate change
The government of Nagaland has taken a very systematic and proactive approach towards the formulation of the state action plan to address climate change. The first meeting of the Steering Committee on
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Carbon sequestration through soil organic carbon pool under different forests covers in Chamoli District of Uttarakhand
A study was conducted to estimate soil organic pool (SOC) in three land uses viz. forests, horticulture and grasslands in Chamoli district.
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Passive noise control measures for traffic noise abatement in Delhi, India
This study proposes a comprehensive noise abatement programme following the best practicable and economical option (BPEO) for implementation in metro city like Delhi for reducing annoyance and ill effects
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Irrigation development: A process of land degradation and marginalisation of the land poor
This article looks into the instances of growing waterlogging, which is a negative externality of the developmental process (canal irrigation) that has affected the marginalised sections to a greater extent,
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Reject Land Acquisition Bill 2011: We need a just, democratic and effective framework
Today, people are protesting against illegal and unjust land grabbing across the country, and it is clear for all to see that the process of land acquisition is unjust and driven by private interests.