Madhya Pradesh

In December 2015, more than forty years after it was conceived, the Government was set to launch India’s ambitious 30-link river interlinking project linking 37 rivers.

Relief assistance to drought-hit Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh and flood-hit West Bengal

What is the exact problem as regards fluoride contamination in Madhya Pradesh, particularly in Dhar district?

“When cool air blows over the city and it rains in Bhopal bringing welcome respite to its people, I fear that toxic waste is spilling into its groundwater”, says Rajesh Kumar who shows me around the 68-acre plant site of Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL).

Sajan, a 14 year old Bhilala Adivasi boy studying in the Rani Kajal school in Kakrana in Alirajpur district of Madhya Pradesh says, "We now save a lot of time as we bathe in the bathrooms and defecate in the toilets rather than in the open fields; and so we study better".

At a time when the Central Government has stressed the need to protect our rivers, the Kaliasot river green belt in Madhya Pradesh has witnessed haphazard growth due to illegal constructions. Not only has the flow of the river which flows from the center of Bhopal been affected, but also community lives have been impacted.

It was 1995.

Government announces launch of Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kalyan Yojana

50 more days of work under MGNREGA in drought-hit areas

Centre approves bringing down protected zone around Okhla Bird Sanctuary from 10 km to 1