Pune With UN climate change conference set to begin next week in Copenhagen, city-based Centre for Development Education (CDE) has been working on a module to involve youngsters in such campaigns. As part of this, the students of Fergusson College observed a No Vehicle Day on Thursday with an objective to educate students about global warming.
Pune District Collector Chandrakant Dalvi will address a meeting on December 5 to review the probe into large-scale irregularities in allotment of forest land in Pune.
Mumbai To solve the water crisis in the peripheral areas of the city (areas that get water from near the end of a main pipeline) the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation wants to redraw water zones. The city is at present divided into 110 water zones that get water from the civic body at different times of the day.
Mumbai For botanist couple Dr Marselin and Dr Sarah Almeida, life has become even more busy and fruitful post-retirement. For more than four decades, this zestful but low-profile duo from Goregaon has meticulously documented, studied and taught botany, working closely with the Bombay Natural History Society, the Blatter Herbarium of St.
Pune ALTERNATIVE SITES: New deadline May 2010 After the Pune Municipal Corporation on Wednesday admitted that it is not possible to stop the open dumping of garbage and find alternative sites by December 15 deadline, May 2010 has been set as the new deadline.
Mumbai: The state forest department will soon go hi-tech in its protection activities in tiger reserves across the state. It has decided to equip forest officers in these reserves with personal digital assistants (PDA) to track wildlife offences and incidents like fires.
<p>Maharashtra state is one of the progressive states in the country. The state initiated Maharashtra Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MREGA) way back in 1972.
The paper reviews contentious issues related to water governance in the Narmada river basin like the riparian rights of States over apportionment of the use of the waters for large dam-centered canal irrigation and hydro-electric power development and the later disputes around the appropriateness of this model of development given the tremendous environmental and social costs associated with it.
MUMBAI: Reacting to the BMC
<p>The Maharashtra Hybrid Seed Company Limited, popularly known as Mahyco, has a remarkable history in many ways. It was set up in 1964 by a man with farming but no business experience, and at a time when public sector research institutions and government seed companies dominated Indian agriculture. </p>
The premise of this paper is that, despite the existence of a well-established regulatory framework to enforce environmental laws and policies in each state of India, there has been a variation in the implementation of environmental judgments.
In a letter to state chief minister Ashok Chavan dated September 8. Union minister of state, Jairam Ramesh, categorically said no mining activities would be allowed near Tadoba. The letter asked the chief minister to review the dam project on river Human (pronounced Hooman) in Chandrapur district that would submerge forestland near Tadoba.
Mumbai At a screening of a documentary on BT Brinjal, the genetically modified vegetable soon to be launched in India, an organic farmer from Rawala Village, Warud tehsil of Amravati district, revealed how BT cotton has left tracts of farmland in the agricultural village of Amravati infertile.
Mumbai Fearing a poor response once again from private players, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) is contemplating clubbing together the contracts for the second and third corridors of the monorail project. Both corridors, Thane-Bhiwandi-Kalyan and Bandra station-Bandra-Kurla Complex, are to be executed on a public-private partnership model.
Pune The city is staring at a major problem as the December 15 deadline for stopping garbage dumping in Uruli Devachi draws near with no alternative location in place. As a temporary measure, the civic administration is now busy exploring the possibility of using land in each of the 14 wards in the city for waste management.
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Special Economic Zones are nothing but special exemption zones and there is no reason to exempt these from all law. Hence, scrap these, is the recommendation of the Committee on Land Reforms and Agrarian Relations set up by the Union government to advise it on issues ranging from land reforms and land acquisition to measures to stop conversion of farm lands.
Pune Even as the city has been constantly facing water cuts, the district administration claims that there is no water shortage in the rural areas of the district. During the monsoon season, the administration had to pool in extra tankers due to inadequate rainfall. But in the last two months, hardly any tankers were sent to rural areas.
Mumbai: The implementation of the Scheduled Tribes and other forest dwellers (recognition of forest rights) Act, 2006, has been delayed in Maharastra, as the state has cleared only 4,500 cases in a year. "The state has received 2.77 lakh claims under the Act and 4,500 have received final approval since February 2008," principal secretary for tribal department PS Meena told PTI.
Pune Sixteen-year old Roopak Karulkar and 14-year-old Trupti Joshi from Pune are all set to participate in the much-talked-about United Nations' climate change
