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Water Jobs via DevNetJobsIndia.org dated October 20, 2010
Posted on 20 Oct, 2010 12:09 PMContent Courtesy: DevNetJobsIndia
- Specialist (Community Management) - Female
N M Sadguru Water & Development Foundation
India’s water economy: Bracing for a turbulent future
Posted on 19 Oct, 2010 07:15 PMThis report by the World Bank examines the evolution of the management of India’s waters, describes the achievements of the past, and the looming set of challenges. The report draws heavily on a set of twelve background documents by eminent Indian practitioners and policy analysts, and addresses two basic questions -
- What are the major water development and management challenges facing India?
- What are the critical measures to be taken to address these?
Review of right to water: Human rights, state legislation, and civil society initiatives in India
Posted on 19 Oct, 2010 07:33 AMThis study by CISED is a review of the rights discourse in the context of water, based on academic and popular literature on rights and civil society initiatives as well as government documents regarding water and related subjects.
Limits of law in counter-hegemonic globalization: The Indian Supreme Court and the Narmada valley struggle
Posted on 18 Oct, 2010 08:10 PMThis working paper by the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University offers an analysis of the role of law in the Narmada valley struggle, especially that which was waged by one of India’s most prominent social movements in recent years, Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA), with a specific focus on India’s Supreme Court. The NBA rose in reaction to the Indian government’s plan to construct a large number of dams along the Narmada river, contesting the relief and rehabilitation provided for displaced families at first, and subsequently challenging the dams themselves as being destructive.
An illustrated collection of groundwater problems: A guide to a beginner in groundwater hydrology by CAREWATER
Posted on 18 Oct, 2010 07:53 PMThis report by CAREWATER has been prepared as part of a component on Groundwater Governance in Asia: Theory and Practice under the CGIAR Challenge Programme on Water and Food. The purpose of this collection is to guide a beginner to groundwater hydrology through the basic concepts in this subject. The problems begin with fundamentals of the subject and are followed by those which test the comprehensiveness of understanding. Most problems are illustrated and a real-world situation is related with the problem.
Kisan Swaraj Yatra - A massive outreach effort interacting with farmers and urban citizens about the agricultural crisis and the way out
Posted on 15 Oct, 2010 12:41 PM
The Kisan Swaraj Yatra has been initiated by the Alliance for Sustainable and Holistic Agriculture (ASHA). This is a loose alliance of scores of groups across the country, drawn from more than 20 states. The network consists of farmers’ organizations, consumer groups, women’s organizations, environmental organizations, organic farmers’ cooperatives, individual scientists, doctors, health activists and others.
Solid Waste Management - A Civil Engineering Course under the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning
Posted on 13 Oct, 2010 09:36 PMThis Civil Engineering Course under the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) on the broad subject of Solid Waste Management is being carried out by Indian Institute of Technology’s and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore as a collaborative project supported by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (Government of India) to enhance the quality of engineering education in the country, by developing curriculum based video and web courses. In these web based lectures, the authors have developed the subject in detail and in stages in a student-friendly manner. The broad group of Solid Waste Management is structured into modules on the following topics:
Article 246 , 262 - Ministry of Water Resources (Government of India) (2010)
Posted on 13 Oct, 2010 05:01 PMArticle 246 includes the following clauses:
- Notwithstanding anything in clauses (2) and (3), Parliament has exclusive power to make laws with respect to any of the matters enumerated in List I in the seventh Schedule (in this Constitution referred to as the "Union List").
- Notwithstanding anything in clause (3), Parliament, and, subject to clause (1), the legislature of any State also, have power to make laws with respect to any of the matters enumerated in List III in the Seventh Schedule (in this Constitution referred to as the "Concurrent List").
- Subject to clauses (1) and (2), the Legislature of any State has exclusive power to make laws for such State or any part thereof with respect to any of the matters enumerated in List II in the Seventh Schedule (in this Constitution referred to as the "State List").
- Parliament has power to make laws with respect to any matter for any part of the territory of India not included in a State notwithstanding that such matter is a matter enumerated in the State List.
The constitution (seventy- fourth amendment) act - Ministry of Law and Justice (Government of India) (1992)
Posted on 13 Oct, 2010 04:51 PMThis document provides the details of The Constitution (Seventy-Fourth Amendment) Act.
The document includes:
- The short title and commencement
- Definitions of the terms in the Act
- Constitution of Municipalities
- Composition of the Municipalities
- Constitution and composition of wards committees
- Reservation of seats
- Duration of Municipalities
- Disqualifications for membership
- Powers, authority and responsibilities of municipalities
- Finance Commission
- Audit of accounts of Municipalities
- Elections to the Municipalities
- Application to Union Territories
- Committee for district planning
- Committee for metropoliton planning
- Continuance of existing laws and municipalities
- Bar to interference by courts in electoral matters
Civil Engineering Management - A Civil Engineering Course under the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning
Posted on 13 Oct, 2010 08:31 AMThis Civil Engineering Course under the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) on the broad subject of Civil Engineering Management is being carried out by Indian Institute of Technology’s and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore as a collaborative project supported by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (Government of India) to enhance the quality of engineering education in the country, by developing curriculum based video and web courses. In these web based lectures, the authors have developed the subject in detail and in stages in a student-friendly manner. The broad group of Civil Engineering Management is structured into modules on the following topics: