Bay of Bengal

Bihar Government bans plastic packaged water bottles in all its departments
Policy matters this week Posted on 09 Feb, 2015 01:35 PM

Bihar's government offices to soon become free of plastic bottles

Plastic water bottles (Source: Pixabay.com)
Nadisutra: Patna to Maniharighat
Team father and son paddle past the ghats, see the state of the water as well as the dwindling species of fish, and learn along the way from family, friends and fisher folk. Posted on 08 Feb, 2015 03:47 PM

A dying river

Manihari Ghat
Maharashtra Government puts its rivers in danger
Policy matters this week Posted on 27 Jan, 2015 12:29 PM

Mahashtra scraps state's River Regulation Zone policy

View of the river Mula in Pune, Maharashtra
Swachh Bharat Mission: 80% behind target
News this week Posted on 27 Jan, 2015 11:14 AM

Swachh Bharat seems a distant dream

Ecosan toilet built in a village
Maharashtra and Telangana oppose interlinking plan
News this week Posted on 20 Jan, 2015 04:56 PM

Strong opposition to interlinking of Gujarat and Maharashtra rivers

Narmada river in Madhya Pradesh
Mission to clean Yamuna in Delhi by 2017
Policy matters this week Posted on 19 Jan, 2015 09:08 PM

NGT announces heavy fines, bans farming to clean up Yamuna

Yamuna river in Agra
The dark life of the Kelo
Senior journalist Shiv Rajpoot, who has traveled across the Kelo river in Chhattisgarh twice by foot, shares the story of its transformation. Posted on 15 Jan, 2015 11:52 PM

"The Kelo river has never been like this but in the last two decades, the economic growth in the region has spoiled the purity of the river", says eminent journalist  Shiv Rajpoot from Raigarh, who is also known as "Kelo man". He has twice traveled by foot, the 90 km stretch of the Kelo from its origin to its end.

The objectives of his two visits were to study and document:

Shiv Rajpoot during his Kelo Yatra, 2008
Ganga Maiyya ki Jai': Uma Bharti at the Ganga Mahasabha
Listen to (and read the text of) Uma Bharti, the Minister of Water Resources, talk about her Ministry's plans for the Ganga including riverfront development. Posted on 15 Jan, 2015 05:57 PM

Banaras has always been identified with Baba Vishwanath but Modiji said that he had been called here by the Ganga. Ganga was thus present in the election atmosphere. When he extended the cabinet, he established a ministry for the Ganga. Some unprecedented things have happened in these elections.

Boats on the ganga
Norms violated for Ken-Betwa river link's public hearing: Activists
News this week Posted on 12 Jan, 2015 11:01 PM

Activists say that the villagers were informed late for the public hearing of the Ken-Betwa river link

People's public hearing
Nationwide monitoring of toilet use under Swachh Bharat Mission
Policy matters this week Posted on 12 Jan, 2015 10:55 PM

Government to launch nationwide monitoring of toilet use, not construction

Construction of community toilets in progress
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