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Recommendations of Working Group on Agriculture to increase agricultural production and productivity in the country - PIB release
Posted on 12 Apr, 2011 05:40 PM
A summary of major recommendations of Working Group are as follows: -
Union Cabinet approves comprehensive mission document of the National Water Mission under National Action Plan on Climate Change - PIB release
Posted on 12 Apr, 2011 01:12 PMArticle courtesy: Press Information Bureau
The Union Cabinet has approved the Comprehensive Mission Document of the National Water Mission.
The National Water Mission is one of the 8 National Missions which form the core of the National Action Plan for Climate Change. The Mission Document for National Water Mission was drafted by the Ministry of Water Resources through consultative process with full involvement of State Governments, concerned Central Ministries, Non-Governmental Organizations, academicians and other stakeholders.
BRIDGE TO INDIA is looking for entrepreneurial and innovative interns at New Delhi – Last date to apply 15th May 2011
Posted on 12 Apr, 2011 12:48 PMForwarded to the portal by: Mohit Anand
BRIDGE TO INDIA is a consulting company with an entrepreneurial approach based in New Delhi.We are looking for an entrepreneurial and innovative intern. The candidate should speak excellent English and share our passion for finding business solutions to India’s energy and environmental challenges.
Description:
Interns will work in our fields of business: renewable energy, resource management and urban planning. The role of interns is not only to provide support for ongoing and future projects but also to engage intellectually and entrepreneurially with BRIDGE TO INDIA’s work. As BRIDGE TO INDIA is a small and dynamic company, there is a lot of opportunity to contribute own ideas and be actively involved in taking on new tasks.
First International film forum on Disaster Risk Reduction, 'Shock-Waves 2011' – Global Forum for Disaster Reduction, 12th – 13th April 2011, New Delhi
Posted on 12 Apr, 2011 12:40 PM
Organizer: Global Forum for Disaster Reduction (GFDR)
Venue: Habitat World, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
Topics:
- Nature’s fury
- Climate Change Adaptations
- Rebuilding Lives
- Fortifying Ourselves
Purushottam Patel's biogas-driven irrigation pump - A video case study
Posted on 12 Apr, 2011 12:04 PM
Water turns the tide - A barren district of Rajasthan is seeing development, thanks to rains last year and floods in 2006
Posted on 12 Apr, 2011 11:31 AMArticle and Image Courtesy: Down To Earth
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A barren district of Rajasthan is seeing development, thanks to rains last year and flood in 2006.
Administration has revived a man-made pond in Nagarda village that was drying up.
Photo: Sayantoni Palchoudhuri
Call for application "Reporting research media fellowship 2011-Dams and development in Northeast India"-Apply by 20th April 2011
Posted on 12 Apr, 2011 11:00 AMForwarded to the portal by: Arup Jyoti
Panos Institute South Asia’s RELAY programme invites print/web and television journalists to apply for the ‘Reporting research media fellowship programme’ on dams and development in Northeast India.
Three print/web and one (1) television fellowship will be awarded to candidates who regularly contribute to media in Northeast India and are willing to write/ produce media outputs based on collaboration with research or researchers and primary field trips in the Northeast.
Deep wells and prudence - Towards pragmatic action for addressing groundwater overexploitation in India - A World Bank document (2010)
Posted on 12 Apr, 2011 01:51 AM
India is the largest user of groundwater resources in the world. It is estimated that approximately 230 cubic kilometers per year is used annually, this is more than a quarter of the total world consumption from this resource.
It is in this context that this World Bank report looks at the reasons for this quantum of groundwater usage.
The report delves into socio-economic and political reasons and looks at policies which inadvertently promote so much extraction. The report also analyses various attempts to manage this resource. These attempts range from government and international agency efforts directed to grassroots mobilisations. Finally the report comes out with suggestions to deal with this crisis.
Saraswati – The ancient river lost in the desert - A paper from Current Science
Posted on 12 Apr, 2011 01:26 AMThis Current Science paper uses secondary data to discuss the disappearance of the river Saraswati. The enigma that was the disappearance of this river, which according to the author once upon a time greened Rajasthan and had nurtured civilizations on its shore, brought archaeologists, geologists, geophysicists, and climatologists to find answers. The author uses the body of work created by these scientists to solve the puzzle of the disappearance of the Saraswati.
Groundwater use in Aurangabad – A survey and analysis of social significance and policy implications for a medium-sized Indian city by GW MATE and World Bank (2008)
Posted on 12 Apr, 2011 01:17 AMAurangabad, a city in central Maharashtra is in a drought prone region, and being a rapidly urbanising town, is facing a lot of pressure on ots water resources. Besides importing water there has been an increasing trend of ground water extraction.
In this context, a survey of groundwater use was conducted as part of a World Bank study on Indian groundwater management. The study was a collaboration between GW MATE(Groundwater Management Advisory Team) and GRASP (Grass Roots Action for Social Participation), an Aurangabad-based civil society organization working on community-based natural resource management.