India

The meeting held on 22nd November, 2012 at the Institute for Human Development, New Delhi was followed by a discussion which included comments and suggestions of the experts and participants. The meeting was chaired by Prof. S R Hashim, President, India Water Partnership who was accompanied by Dr.

The talk begins with a description of the valley. This section describes its location, landscape, flora, livelihoods and society.

The contemporary Indian social, demographic context is witnessing steady rise in demand over water resources and experiencing crunch in its access and availability, clubbed with livelihoods challenges never before. On the contrary, meager policy instruments, inadequate institutional capacities and lack of machinery in place to address or ensure sustainability of its resources.

This document by Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation provides essential components that should form part of detailed project report in village/multi village’s rural piped water supply scheme.

The main components of the guidelines include

This document by Central Groundwater Authority provides a set of guidelines to evaluate proposals/requests for the withdrawal of ground water. This is done with the following objectives:

This document by Ministry of Environment and Forests aims to set a target for the reduction of targeted greenhouse gas emissions; to establish a National Committee on climate change; to provide for carbon budgeting and carbon trading schemes and to encourage other such activities; to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and for matters connected to it.

This document is a bill by Ministry of Rural Development aims to amend the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005. The objective of this bill is to arrest the rampant corruption in the scheme, which was meant to provide employment opportunities to landless labourers and small farming families in rural areas.