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Environment
Project stalled
Issue Date: Jun 30, 1992
THE SUBANSIRI hydel project in Arunachal Pradesh may not take off as the ministry of environment and forests feels it will cause irreparable damage to the biodiversity of the region. This contrasts with the support the project has got from both the Planning Commission and the water resources ministry. These two allege that the Rs 5,000 crore project, supposed to generate 4,800 MW, has fallen prey to the MEF's idiosyncrasies.
MEF under fire
Issue Date: Jun 30, 1992
THE UNION minister of environment and forests was under fire at the last National Development Council (NDC) meeting both from a section of central ministers as well as chief ministers who accused his ministry of being the biggest hurdle to development. While the chief ministers' ire was expected, the Union ministers of power and industry also joined the chorus of protest.
Where a community maps its resources
Issue Date: Jun 15, 1992
MAPPING of local natural resources by the villagers is an
experiment being tried out by three Kerala organisations: the
Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad (KSSP), the Centre for Earth
Science Studies (CESS) and the Kerala State Land Use Board
(KSLUB).
Economic growth is unsustainable unless the exploitation of
Passing USA's laugh test
Issue Date: Jun 15, 1992
THAT America rules the waves became abundantly clear to me when I witnessed USA flex its muscles over the entire world at the last session of the Climate Change Convention. The UN was reduced to functioning as an extension of the US state department. And
George Bush made a "neutered" climate convention - the centrepiece of the UNCED circus - conditional to his attendance at the Earth Summit.
Several Worlds, one vision
Issue Date: Jun 15, 1992
SATYAJIT Ray's formidable body of work has given both-form and substance to the cultural landscape of the nation and, thereby, helped shape its cultural consciousness. The range is astonishing: from period pieces like Charulata and Jalsaghar to films with a
rural setting like Pather Panchali and Sadgati, to works like Mahanagar and Agantuk which explore the collapse of human values against the harsh urban environment of modern India.
While Pakistan angers Arabs for its bustard
Issue Date: Jun 15, 1992
IN Pakistan, environmentalists have gone to court to save the houbara bustard from being hunted by wealthy Arabs. The bustard case
has not only angered the Gulf states, it has also provoked a surge of interest in the largely untapped potential of public interest litigation.
In Rio, try thinking of Kalavati Devi
Issue Date: May 31, 1992
HUMANITY never needed a global social contract
more than it does today. With the nations of the world
jointly facing a global ecological crisis but sharply
divided in economic terms, there never was a greater
need for humanity to live as one. The forthcoming
United Nations Conference on Environment and
Development (UNCED) could have provided us with
precisely such an opportunity.
No citizen on earth wants his or her environment to
be polluted and destroyed. But different economic
