Author(s): Sayantan Bera , down to earth Infant deaths in West Bengal’s only super specialty hospital underscrore an urgent need to improve healthcare facilities in rural areas 63 per cent women in the state suffer from anaemia (Photo: Sayantan Bera) SUPER SPECIALTY… Continue Reading →
Author(s): Alok Gupta [1] Issue Date: 2013-9-27 Will National Green Tribunal accept the second public hearing; it had dismissed the first one held five years ago as a ‘farce’ The public hearing was attended by 4,000 people and held amid heavy… Continue Reading →
Author(s): Jitendra @jitendrachoube1 , Alok Gupta @alok227 , M Suchitra, Akshay Deshmane @DeshmaneAkshay , Aparna Pallavi @AparnaPallavi1 Sep 30, 2013 | downtoearth Since the Right To Education Act came into force on April 1, 2010, India has been witnessing an experiment that involves parents in enforcing a fundamental right—right to elementary education…. Continue Reading →
Author(s): Soma Basu , down to earth Date:Sep 13, 2013 It has only increased cost of illegally sourced construction material Sand mining in the Saryu river in Pithoragarh (photographs by Soma Basu)Despite the National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) ban on mining sand without environment… Continue Reading →
Author(s): Soundaram Ramanathan [1] Issue Date: 2013-8-31 Existing 4,000 MW power plant bad enough, and impacting health and livelihood, say residents Tata Power Company Ltd, which runs a 4,000 MW ultra mega power project at Mundra in Kuchchh district of Gujarat,… Continue Reading →
‘ Author(s): Kumar Sambhav S… [1] Issue Date: 2013-8-30 Autonomous councils in the Northeast are the reason why people there did not lose access to land and forests, says Virginius Xaxa, head of recently constituted high level panel to map status… Continue Reading →
Author(s): Srestha Banerjee [1] Issue Date: 2013-8-28 Activists say expert appraisal committee’s clearance to proposed ultra mega power project based on false information furnished in EIA report In May this year, the Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) of the Union Ministry of… Continue Reading →
Author: Sayantan Bera Posted on: 28 Aug, 2013 Existing mines can comfortably meet India’s demand for the next thirty years, at levels three times our current consumption Forest dwellers from Niyamgiri rejected proposed mining at India’s first ever environment referendum. Will… Continue Reading →
Author(s): Aparna Pallavi [1] Issue Date: 2013-8-26 Madhya Pradesh government ordered to follow rehabilitation policy comprehensively Last year, people affected by the Omkareshwar and Indira Sagar dams protested the raising of dam storage levels by staying in neck-deep water for over… Continue Reading →
Author(s): Sayantan Bera [1] Issue Date: 2013-8-26 Odisha government has completed land acquisition for plant site but proposed mining in Khandadhar hills might stir up another struggle A file photo from 2011 shows women and children holding ground in Gobindapur village… Continue Reading →
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