Policies, Laws and Regulations
The key to successfully managing groundwater in India
Posted on 23 Mar, 2014 10:47 PMDr. Himanshu Kulkarni is the Executive Director of the Advanced Center for Water Resources Development and Management (ACWADAM), a non-profit organisation in Pune. It is a premier education and research institution, which facilitates work on groundwater management through action research programmes and training.
Kolkata's grossly undervalued natural sewage management system
Posted on 16 Mar, 2014 10:34 PMThe city of Kolkata is blessed to have its very own natural urban wastewater treatment system in the form of the East Kolkata Wetlands.
MoEF accepts Kerala's recommendations on Western Ghats
Posted on 09 Mar, 2014 05:17 PMMoEF accepts Kerala's recommendations on Western Ghats
Toilets for all: Jharkhand's Sanitation Policy
Posted on 07 Mar, 2014 10:29 AMThe document titled ‘Sanitation Policy of Jharkhand’, by the Government of Jharkhand, serves as a guidance manual to follow the directives of the Nirmal Bahrat Abhiyan (NBA), a government programme to tackle open defecation in rural India.
Wildlife Board approves controversial irrigation projects in Maharashtra
Posted on 05 Mar, 2014 11:23 PMMaharashtra's controversial irrigation projects get a green signal
Scrap 15 out of 40 dams across Siang in Arunachal: CWC
Posted on 24 Feb, 2014 04:17 PMCWC recommends scrapping of 15 dams planned across Siang
The great Indian toilet tracker!
Posted on 16 Feb, 2014 10:57 PMWomen patiently wait for the sun to go down, to squat in open fields. Young children do so unabashedly on the roads under the open skies. Well into our 67th year of independence, the sanitation situation hasn't changed much in villages and towns across the nation.
If you don't clean our shit, then who will?
Posted on 16 Feb, 2014 10:53 PM"Swaraj is a meaningless term, if we desire to keep a fifth of India under perpetual subjection, and deliberately deny to them the fruits of national culture". - Mahatma Gandhi
New crop insurance scheme for Pudukottai, TN
Posted on 10 Feb, 2014 07:06 PMPudukottai gets crop insurance scheme to mitigate nature's fury