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New infestation
135,000 affected by chikungunya disease, government yet to assess gravity of situation
135,000 affected by chikungunya disease, government yet to assess gravity of situation
In the past two months, India has revisited its most contested dam, the Sardar Sarovar Project. While people affected by it in Madhya Pradesh remain stranded, Gujarat has more water than its canals can distribute. An analysis by <font class='UCASE'>padma
ONE accusation that is flung at the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) consistently is that the organisation is against the Sardar Sarovar dam. While this was true at one time, the NBA has been forced to accept the existence of the dam and it no longer denounces its construction.
ON March 8, the Narmada Control Authority (NCA) gave the green signal to raise the height of the Sardar Sarovar dam from 110.64 metres to 121.92 m.
1947: The Central Waterways Irrigation and Navigation Commission, acting on the request of the Central Provinces, Berar (now part of the Vidarbha region in Maharashtra) and the Government of Bombay, begins a study of the Navagram project (renamed Sardar Sarovar Project in 1978) for developing the Narmada river system.
Maharashtra villagers fight land acquisition for IT park
In August 2005, the Indian Parliament passed the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act <font class='UCASE'>nrega</font> . The latest avatar of state financed employment guarantee schemes <font class='UCASE'>egs</font> geared to alleviate rural povert
In Maharashtra its done well, and not
A unique public works programme
So much spent on rural employment
Privatisation of water is taking root in India, often aided by political and bureaucratic corruption. Alongside, resistance to this is also building up.
Bird flu resurfaces, exposes weakness of testing system
Online land records good tool for land grabbing
Questions over Maharashtra s online land records
WB walks out of Mumbai urban transport project
To address the problem of power shortage in the coming summer, the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (merc) has decided to penalise power intensive consumers. merc has directed all
Maharashtra FDA recommends
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"Kidney Sale Centre," proclaims a banner sprawled across a ramshackle bamboo tent at Shingnapur village in Amravati district of Maharashtra. The farmers here are threatening to sell their kidneys. "We have invited the Prime Minister and the President to inaugurate this kidney shop. They should allow us to sell our kidneys. We are all ruined by debt. Many farmers are killing themselves.
Builders may 'get big bonanza in Dharavi