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HLC Report on Review of Environment Laws: Utmost Good Faith towards the...
In its initial pages, TSR Subramanian Committee Report (High Level Committee Report) comes across as a well-written, even eloquent document. That the environmental laws and governance needed...
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Violations in Ken Betwa Riverlink Public Hearings in last week of 2014
The public hearings required for the Ken Betwa River linking project (KBRLP) are to be held on Dec 23 and 27, 2014 at Silon in Chhattarpur and Hinouta in Panna districts of Madhya Pradesh. However,...
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Why Ken Betwa EIA by AFCL is unacceptable
The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of Ken Betwa Riverlink project used for the public hearing to be held on Dec 23 (Silon village in Chhatarpur district) and Dec 27 (Hinouta village in Panna...
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Kanhar Project in UP: Another unwanted dam
Guest Blog by: Debadityo Sinha (debadityo@gmail.com) “We do not want dams; in fact we don’t need it. It is the industries for which they need water, and for which they want us to give up our fertile...
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Vidarbha: “The worst place in the nation to be a farmer?”
Every day, Maharashtra is shaken by the news of farmer suicides in Vidarbha or Marathwada. On Dec 28, 2014 it was reported that 12 farmers in Vidarbha committed suicide in 72 hours[i]. According to P....
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Rivers in the News during 2014
Above: The beautiful Lohit River, Arunachal Pradesh Photo: Arati Kumar Rao (http://riverdiaries.tumblr.com/) As 2014 comes to a close, here is a review of what happened at the ‘river’front, and which...
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SANDRP BLOG: 2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 150,000 times in 2014. If it were...
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Is government at all serious in addressing the issues raised by Movement...
Minutes of Government of India meeting on Lower Subansiri HEP in Dec 2014 rejected by movement: Shoddy Cumulative impact assessments, lack of public consultations won’t help On Dec 10-11, 2014, on...
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Is there any hope for Ganga from IIT Consorium Plan?
Guest Blog by: Chicu Lokgariwar (chicu.l@gmail.com) We have a Prime Minister who, his colleagues claim, is the new Bhagirath. And possibly for the first time, Prime Minister himself called a meeting of...
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The High Level Committee Report on Environmental Law: A Recipe for Climate...
Above: 440 MW Vishnuprayag HEP post 2013 disaster in Uttarakhand. The project, its operation and location added significantly to disaster in the downstream. Photo: Matu JanSangathan Post by- Ritwick...
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Interlinking ‘Conflicts’: Maharashtra se Gujarat tak
Above: A girl from the Par Basin. With drinking water problems plaguing her village and the impending diversion project either from Gujarat or Maharashtra, her hardships will only increase. Photo:...
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Pranahita-Chevella Project: Gargantuan Project with Gargantuan Violations
Can you imagine a project-not any project, perhaps India’s largest irrigation project till date- going on for years without most statutory clearances? Can you imagine a project on which Rs 7000...
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Water Smart Mumbai is possible without river links and big dams! Open Letter...
Above: Forested Valley, now lost forever for the Middle Vaitarna Dam Photo: Parineeta Dandekar Respected Chief Minister, At the outset we congratulate you for leading some progressive changes in the...
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DAMS, RIVERS & PEOPLE Magazine: Nov – Dec 2014 issue
The Nov Dec 2014 issue of magazine “Dams, Rivers & People” is available at: http://sandrp.in/DRP_Nov_Dec2014.pdf. The front page image of the issue is given below. The Index of the stories in this...
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LET OUR RIVERS LIVE – DELHI DECLARATION
India Rivers Week, 24-27 November 2014, New Delhi Preamble 1.1 Most of India’s rivers are in varying degrees of decline and distress. It is a deep concern at the plight of our rivers that lay behind...
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State must ensure water accessibility to all: Bombay HC
Blog by Debadityo Sinha (debadityo@gmail.com) (with inputs from Himanshu Thakkar (SANDRP)) In a landmark judgment dated Dec 15, 2014, Mumbai High Court bench of Justices Abhay S Oka & A S Gadkari...
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Headwater Extinctions by Emmanuel Theophilus: SOME CONCERNS
By Prof Prakash Nautiyal, (lotic.biodiversity@gmail.com) HNB Garhwal University, Srinagar, Uttarakhand I have gone through the report Headwater extinctions: Hydropower projects in the Himalayan reaches...
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FAO’s First Ever Global Conference on Inland Fisheries in Rome: Opening Day
On this Republic Day of India, when the American President Barrack Obama joined Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to witness the ever-inspiring Republic Day Parade, 6000 kms away in Rome I heard a...
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Citizen Memorandum to all political parties in Delhi on Water & Sanitation...
Citizens Solidarity Forum for Right to Water and Sanitation Basti Vikas Kendra, F Block, New Seemapuri, Delhi 110095 Contact: Devendra Kumar, President(9250878059), Depinder Kapur, Convener(9711178181)...
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Overview of Global Inland Fisheries Conference, 26-28 January 2015: Rivers...
The Global Inland Fisheries Conference in Rome, Italy, organized by FAO and Michigan State University concluded on the 28th January 2015. The three day conference meant a lot of things: A platform to...
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