National waterways in need of a new course
The Centre gears up to take national control of the Kosi and Gandak and turn them into commercial waterways. Shripad Dharmadhikary and the Manthan team report on findings from a recent visit to the region.
THE NEWS IN PROPORTION
18 AUGUST 2018
Environment
INLAND WATERWAYS
National waterways in need of a new course
National waterways in need of a new course
RURAL WOMEN
Issues that affect underprivileged women have not got enough attention in the mainstream feminist movements in India. Yet the women from rural areas and from lower classes and castes have been leading struggles for their rights, says Navya P. K.
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Recent research by the Prayas Energy Group shows that notwithstanding a big spike in demand for LEDs in recent years, more steps are needed to phase out incandescent bulbs.
URBAN RIVERS
A two-day dialogue on urban rivers held in Pune recently focused on the plight of urban rivers. Shripad Dharmadhikary reports and presents his views.
CAG AUDIT IN ODISHA
Himanshu Upadhyaya examines a CAG audit report to point out the blatant non-compliance of environmental laws largely by the Forest officials.
TEESTA STAGE III HEP
Teesta Urja’s penchant for getting into trouble and illegalities continues unabated. Soumik Dutta reports.
MAHANADI WATER DISPUTE
Shripad Dharmadhikary explains why setting up a tribunal to resolve the Mahanadi Water Dispute will not help the people or the river.
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
Recently Darryl D’Monte interviewed the famous physicist Fritjof Capra at the annual meet of Greenaccord international environmental journalists in Italy. Here he reports on Capra’s separate remarks about the environment, along with quotes from his books and blogs.
DELHI POLLUTION
It’s not the crop burning, stupid. It’s vehicles that create smog and the media should educate the public. Anup Kumar explains.
MINING IN ODISHA
Harapriya Nayak and Santosh Dora share their experience of working with the tribals of a small village in Odisha, who were suffering because of heavy mining happening in their area and how they brought about a change.
HIGH SPEED TRAIN
Darryl D'Monte analyses why the proposed Bullet Train between Mumbai and Ahmedabad is not the need of the hour, nor worth the cost.
BOOK REVIEW
Darryl D’Monte reviews Indira Gandhi – A Life in Nature , a new book focussing on Indira Gandhi as a naturalist.
LARGE HYDROPOWER PROJECTS
Shripad Dharmadhikary critically examines the proposed push for hydro power projects in the recently released Draft National Energy Policy for public comments by NITI Aayog.
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ENVIRONMENT OPINIONS
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND REGULATION
- Is RE becoming too much of a good thing?
- Rail link to coal is becoming unsustainable
- Meet the solar sisters
- Lessons for rural electrification from a weaving village
- CRZ: Why coastal communities are troubled by these three letters
- The catch regarding Mumbai’s fishing villages
- The alleged sell-out that has left our fishermen fuming
- RTI and EIA collide at NIO
- Shifting goalposts as summit winds down
- The Paris Climate Accord
- Will voluntary action to curb GHG emissions achieve anything?
- Looking beyond ‘Chindia’s’ common cause on climate
- Is the Hubli-Ankola Railway line approved?
- Where is the forest case headed?
- Euphemising forest diversion?
- Is “settling” forest rights in “campaign mode” a good idea?
- Graveyard of ships struggles to survive
- What Chernobyl and Fukushima remind us
- The poisons we play with everyday
- Not everyone wants a plastic-free future!
- Too many questions? Take away the right to ask!
- In Odisha, more tribal voices against mining
- The sand mining conundrum
- Why the Dongria Kondh rejected development in the Niyamgiri Hills
- Financing urban development
- Waste pickers live, work with pride
- When cities go under
- There's more than meets the Mumbai Eye
- Residents of a municipal dumping site fight back
- India’s sanitation puzzle: Missing the complete picture?
- What's in that compost you are using: burnt waste?
- Those brooms may not be enough to clean our waste!
- Thirty-four years of irregularities and failures
- What you can’t measure properly, you can’t manage properly
- A guardian of rivers
- Creating National Water Commission
ENVIRONMENT OPINIONS
- Old or new, cars must make way for buses
- Will banning older vehicles clean the air in Delhi?
- Finding the right reasons for reform
- An uncertain future for our fauna
- At one with nature while learning about wildlife
- Where are the real tweets in India?
- Saving the Malabar Hornbill in the hills of Tamil Nadu
- Where leopards await human compassion
- Withering public consultations
- Rays of hope for the ‘local’ in Meghalaya
- Why the land acquisition law is a threat to several others
- The tiny creature that has made the Assam zoo famous!
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND REGULATION
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