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These efforts were developed and launched through urban local bodies and which transformed service levels and helped improve compliance with the Municipal Solid Waste Rules, in a context where the state of MSW services in most of the Indian towns has been far from sati

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Newsletter of South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People (SANDRP) for April - May 2011 (Volume 9 Issue 3-4), focuses on the following topics.

• Analysis of TAC guidelines and decisions in recent meetings
  The Advisory Committee in the Union Ministry of Water Resources for consideration of techno-economic viability of Irrigation, Flood Control and Multi Purpose Project Proposals (TAC in short) is supposed to discuss the techno-economic viability of the irrigation, flood control and multi-purpose project proposals as per the Resolution published in the Union of India Gazette Notification No. 12/5/86-P-II dated Nov 27, 1987.

This document describes the Goa Sewerage System and Sanitation Services Management Act and includes:

Goa, the last remaining redoubt of the pleasant, civilized life in India, now faces environmental ruin from indiscriminate construction and exploitation of its natural resources. Concomitant with this ruin is the imminent erasure of its sui generis identity and culture wrought by the uncontrolled influx of migrants from all over India. First released in May 2008, this documentary was screened in towns and cities all across Goa.

Organizer: National Institute of Oceanography

Venue: National Institute of Oceanography, Goa

Description:

National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) is organizing this two day conference in Hindi. The idea is to encourage the scientific community as well as the youth to develop an ingenious and inventive outlook towards environmental issues.

The National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) with its headquarters at Dona Paula, Goa and regional centres at Kochi, Mumbai and Visakhapatnam, is one of the 38 constituent laboratories of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi. The institute has grown today into a large oceanographic laboratory of international repute. The focus of research has been on observing and understanding the special oceanographic features that the North Indian basin offers. The inferences from this research have been reported in about 5,000 research articles so far.

Organizer: National Institute of Oceanography(NIO)

Venue: National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa

Topics:

• Observations
• Ocean models (OGCMs, LCS & layer models; model hierarchy)

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