Judgment of the Supreme Court in the matter of In Re: Zudpi Jungle Lands. A batch of applications involved a peculiar issue concerning the situation prevailing in the six districts of eastern Vidarbha region namely Nagpur, Wardha, Bhandara, Gondia, Chandrapur and Gadchiroli. The issue pertains to the status of the …
THE SPECTRE of drought hangs over western Rajasthan almost every year and this year isn't any different. The worst affected are the animals. A good monsoon last year ensured increased calving -- which means more milk -- but lack of pastures might put the clock back. Owners somehow manage to …
IN HER short but bitingly relevant play, Mridula Garg places the exploitation of children in the carpet industry in an equally horrific context of deforestation, outmigration and rural poverty -- ground realities in India justified as modern, "Western" development. Jadoo ka Kaleen, the "magic carpet", is an emancipatory metaphor: the …
INDIAN filmmakers have tackled the subject of Adivasis before, but the film under review this fortnight is the most ambitious in recent years. Tapan K Bose's Jharkhand was meant to be part of a trilogy, but the other two didn't get made because the filmmaker ran out of resources. Bose …
The Central Pollution Control Board in exercise of its powers conferred under section 16(2) (h) of the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act,1981 (14 of 1981) notify the National Ambient Air Quality Standards, 1994.
EVERY day, a truck draws up to Jayanth V Barve's farm near Vite town in Sangli district and dumps about one tonne of municipal waste. Barve pays Rs 20 for the transportation and then his workers set out to transform the refuse into vermicompost, which is sold at Rs 2,600 …
DEAD drunk on its political clout, Delhi is blind to the fact that its water scarcity is directly proportional to its gargantuan wastage. At the peak of its "water crisis" in mid-January, Delhi's water consumption, at 215 Ipcd, remained 65 per cent higher than Bombay's. Water supply planners -an oxymoronic …
ABOHAR Wildlife Sanctuary in Punjab is not your average preserve. The 18,700 ha sanctuary - situated 15 km from Abohar town in Ferozepur district - is spread over 13 villages and is one of only two private reserves in India. The other is the Abubshahar sanctuary in Haryana. And, there …
THIS is not a load of what you think it is. By the year 2001, the volume of sewage generated by Delhi is likely to top a mountainous 3,200 mId. The only way to flush it or purify it is with more water. And no one knows where that is …
In February, the third blackbuck census was carried out in Abohar Wildlife Sanctuary in Punjab. The first two censuses were held in 1978 and 1986. Says chief wildlife warden of Punjab, Gurmit Singh, "The state government sanctioned the Rs 25,000 we had applied for, so we decided to carry it …
THE 17 five-star hotels in Delhi try to do justice to the exotic aqua pura, the drink of dreams. pure and simple, they not only guzzle water that the city can scant afford, they refuse to recycle it as well. At 800 kilolitres (kl) daily per hotel, their water consumption …
TAKE just a tourist's passing measure of the vast leafy expanse that gives New Delhi its crowing distinction as one of the greenest capitals in the world and you'll know exactly where a full 10th of the Capital's water sinks. The 400,000 residents of the tiny 5 per cent area …
WITHOUT these 200 tankers - rusting and leaking ponderously - Delhi would be panting. And these dinosaurs come closest to the prices Delhi's people should actually be paying. While the New Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) charges Rs 250 for a tanker of 10 kl capacity, private tankers get anything between …
DELHI'S future -to mix metaphors -is in the hands of three dams. But of Renuka, Kishau and Tehri, only the last is under construction; it should supply the city with 675 million litres daily (mld) feeding the proposed 630 mld treatment plant at Shahdara. But next century. The Tehri Hydel …
UNDER the present dispensation, the three major water treatment plants at Hyderpur, Chandrawal and Wazirabad get 1410 mld from the Bhakra Nangal dam system and the Yamuna river. The Bhakra water is carried from the Bhakra main link canal through the Narwana branch. The branch canal carries about 1,775 mld …
Of thirsty queues and 400 litre bathtubs This is where the poor subsidise the water mania of the rich while the land dries up DELHI is a city with two stark antipodes. Two-and-a-half, come to think of it. Guzzlers: that man in Golf Links, upto his neck and kneecaps in …
BUSINESS firms are cashing in on earthworms. These burrowers of the soil are miniature factories of natural fertilisers. They consume organic waste and their excreta, known as worm-cast, is gaining popularity as fertiliser because unlike chemical fertilisers, they do not pollute the soil and water. One research study shows that …
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The presence of Gujjars in the Rajaji National Park could be responsible for the significant increase in elephant numbers in the past four years, wildlife observers claim. According to them, the Gujjars have minimised poaching and regulated the monitoring of the elephant population in the park. The number of elephants …
A TECHNOLOGY to treat domestic sewage, in existence since the '60s, has been put to new use: treating and recycling wastewater from public urinals. Mukesh Khare of the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi claims the rotating biological contactor (RBC) process can eliminate foul odour from the urinals, especially in …
All might not be well in our wetlands, as indicated by -disturbing migratory trends of birds. "The disappearance of Siberian cranes is not the only cause for concern," says Ravi Aggarwal, member of the Delhi-based NGO, Srishti, which carried out the north India census for the Asian Wetland Bureau. "Only …
