Huge gaps in monitoring and enforcement of clearance conditions actually defeats the very purpose of grant of conditional environmental clearance, the report says.
Sanitation is the unpopular cousin of water supply, and that investments, interest and motivation to transform the sanitation sector are lacking, the report says.
For long-term sustainability of the rural water supply schemes under the Mission, it is imperative to design State-specific plans of action, the study says.
There is compelling evidence that sanitation brings the greatest public health returns on investment among all development interventions, the article says.
With commercialisation of natural resources, traditional knowledge that managed to maintain sustainable levels of exploitation has been sidelined, the report says.
This paper published in the Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge presents four plants used as an agricultural season indicator by Mao Naga tribe of Manipur, India.
The report recommends that early diagnosis, treatment and community education are the basic responses that should be included in all malaria control programmes.
The MoRD has on 29th July, 2011 released the draft Land Acquisition and Resettlement and Rehabilitation bill, 2011 in public domain as part of the pre-legislative consultative process.