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Panchayats
Ladakh on the move
Issue Date: Nov 30, 2003
In Ladakh, the rest of India is referred to as down . Because, at no point in Leh district would you be less than about three kilometres above the mean sea level. This vast barren district is more than 45,000 square kilometre (sq km); it is perhaps India's largest and certainly its most sparsely populated.
Water warriors
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2001
A lot has been written on India's vast and ancient experience in rainwater harvesting. But no concrete effort has been made to use these traditional innovations. There is no village in India which cannot meet its drinking water needs if it adopts the kundi technology developed by the people of Rajasthan's Thar desert. The technology is very simple. One can take a piece of land and artificially slope it in a way that any water falling in this catchment area runs into a well in the centre or a side of the land.
Poor little rich states
Issue Date: Jan 15, 2001
ON THE face of it, democracy in India has won a small battle. People's aspirations have been met by the creation of the three new states - Chattisgarh, Uttaranchal and Jharkhand. The people agitated for decades against apathy and skewed development of the mother states - Madhya Pradesh (MP), Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Bihar, respectively. But statehood means only half the battle won.
Bridging the gap
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2000
Only plans, no integration
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Government departments wrangle for control over programme for Naxal-affected districts
Violence at POSCO site
Issue Date: Dec 16, 2011
The site of $12 billion POSCO project in Jagatsinghpur district of Odisha saw violent clashes on December 14 when the state administration resumed construction of a 12 km coastal road linking the steel plant to the captive port. Villagers opposed to POSCO clashed with project proponents and workers of a private construction company, Paradip Paribahan, leaving one person dead and injuring 25 others.
Democracy under surveillance
Issue Date: Dec 15, 2011
THE West Bengal government is set to establish a three-tier bureaucratic system to monitor the three-tier panchayati raj system. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee made the announcement on November 3 after a meeting with district administrative officials.
Blatant lies for laterite
Issue Date: Dec 15, 2011
DESPITE stiff opposition from residents and activists, the Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board (APPCB), on November 17, held a public hearing for a proposed laterite mining project at Bhamidika, a notified Scheduled Tribe village in Visakhapatnam district. Protestors say the mining will cost the tribes their livelihood and land, and put the area’s ecology at risk.
Jharkhand proposes MGNREGA worker unions
Issue Date: Oct 13, 2011
Facing dipping demand for works under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), the Jharkhand government has decided to form unions of workers that will persuade people in villages to ask for more work. The state will be the first in the country to do so.
‘Forest department is the encroacher’
Issue Date: Oct 15, 2011
Panchayats Extension to Scheduled Areas (PESA) Act was enacted 15 years ago. Do you feel helpless because it has not yet been implemented?
As the minister of panchayati raj, my first job is to remind people about the existence of PESA. If need arises I can go for further legislation to ensure that states comply with the provisions of PESA. For this, I will talk to chief ministers and ministers in charge of panchayati raj activities.
Interviewee:
V Kishore Chand...
