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The negotiators
Issue Date: Oct 31, 2003
There exist, in India today, at least two ways of resolving water-related conflicts. One is the way the conflict over river Cauvery is being managed. The river of woes for Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalitha and her Karnataka counterpart S M Krishna, not a single day has passed in the last six months when both haven't worried over their rights. For the states, it is an intense three-decade old battle.
Phulmai's walk - a day in the life of a headloader
Issue Date: Dec 15, 2002
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.
Taking the lead
Issue Date: Feb 15, 1999
Environmental issues never really mattered in Indian realpolitik. Pollution, deforestation and land degradation have always been fringe issues - either by choice, neglect or perhaps, by ignorance of those who mattered. Neither the ruling parties nor the opposition ever put in any effort to make an issue out of the environmental status of their respective states. Politicians always felt that "India has other things to worry about". But lately, signs of change are becoming apparent.
No taker for 43-year-old Save Grain campaign
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2008
the Save Grain campaign, initiated 43 years ago, came to an end on February 29, 2008. The centre wanted states to take it up because agriculture is a state subject but states did not want any "added responsibility". Finding no takers, the centre had little choice but to go with the recommendation of the Expenditure Reforms Commission set up by the Union Ministry of Finance, to end the campaign.
Centre wakes up to Naxal menace
Issue Date: Jan 15, 2008
the centre will recruit around 37,000 personnel under the Indian Reserve battalion scheme for deployment in
Naxal-affected states. The decision comes after prime minister Manmohan Singh urged states to "choke Naxal infrastructure and cripple their
activities" in a two-day chief minister's conference on internal security in the capital on December 19-20. Referring to Naxalism as "the single biggest
security challenge", he urged the states to raise forces on the 'Greyhound' model anti-Naxal force set up by N Chandrababu Naidu, former chief
Tribal rights head nowhere
Issue Date: Oct 15, 2007
While the group of ministers has started deliberations on the pros and cons of the proposed national tribal policy, activists have raised questions about its utility. The policy aims at social, economic, linguistic and cultural development of tribals so that they will be at par with rest of the population by 2020.
EIA A nice formality
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2007
Today a lot of state governments promise companies investment opportunities free of 'encumbrances'. Investors are assured of government assistance in securing requisite clearances for projects. Sample, for example, the following sentence from a memorandum of understanding (mou) between an international investor of a high profile project and the Orissa government.
PDS fails in feeding India's poor
Issue Date: Aug 15, 2007
India's Targeted Public Distribution System (tpds) gives subsidised essential commodities to economically weaker households. Till 1997, the system had supplied subsidised commodities to all
National Environment Tribunal Bill threatens eco-groups
Issue Date: Aug 15, 2007
there's been a last ditch attempt to protect local management of ecologically sensitive areas from the government's
axe. Environment groups in Maharashtra have approached the Union ministry of environment and forests (moef) asking
it to not to disband local authorities and monitoring committees that are at present legally entrusted with the planning and management of these
areas.
The immediate threat to esas comes from moef's draft National Environment Tribunal
