Pedaling ahead
There are an estimated one million cycle rickshaws plying on the roads of India. Besides being environmentally-friendly, they provide employment to about 700,000 people, not to mention the millions
There are an estimated one million cycle rickshaws plying on the roads of India. Besides being environmentally-friendly, they provide employment to about 700,000 people, not to mention the millions
Dahanu fisherfolk protest
Translocation as a way of dealing with leopard human conflicts is completely wrong
Debt laden Maharashtra farmers choose to die
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THE proposed construction of a megaport in Vadhvan, near Mumbai, will have serious implications on the environment of the region, says a study by an independent researcher, Ritu Dewan, department of
Lahu Fale does not have to think twice about market availability, price and transportation when it comes to deciding which crops to grow. Now he and other farmers in Pune's Kolwan Valley can sell
3 eco sensitive zones in Maharashtra get short shrift
Polybags out, system suspect
fears of scientists at the Indira Gandhi Agriculture University, Raipur, about the possible transfer of germplasm of Jatropha Carcus (see
Over 50,000 people are agitating against a proposed declaration of the Jaikwadi Bird Sanctuary as an
The National Wildlife Action Plan was adopted in 2004. It entailed identifying ecologically fragile areas and wildlife corridors within 10 km of protected areas, and getting states to notify them as eco-fragile zones under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986. But there was no progress in some states.
after wreaking havoc in Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh, forest fires have gone out of control in the Melghat region of Amravati district in Maharashtra. The most disturbing fact is the
Almost 75 per cent sewage treatment plants in Maharashtra run without valid consents, reveals Maharashtra's State of Environment Report, 2007. The report, a public document released by Maharashtra
In the Indian context, the term deep sea has very little to do with depth. It refers to India s Exclusive Economic Zone: the 188 nautical miles of waters beyond the 12 mile territorial sea. Soon after the declaration of the Indian EEZ in 1976, there we
the Maharashtra government recently discovered 2.6 million fake ration cards in the state, including 700,000 fake cards in Mumbai. The state government has assured "strict action' against errant
in a bid to stop pilferage in the Targeted Public Distribution System (tpds), the Union government plans to introduce food coupons for people below poverty line (bpl). Under the scheme
FINDING itself caught on the wrong foot, the BJP-Shiv Sena government in Maharashtra reversed its decision to amend the Maharashtra Animal Preservation Act, 1976, calling for a total ban on
The Supreme Court of India recently expressed concern over the growing number of industrial units in Dahanu, the
This first of three Down To Earth analyses of tiger reserves finds Melghat in Maharashtra in a legal mess