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Society, Culture, Religion and History
A three-day workshop on how to leverage new media technologies for advocacy and strategic communication, CSE, 6th – 8th July, 2011, New Delhi
Posted on 16 Jun, 2011 05:36 PMOrganizer: Anil Agarwal Green college, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
Venue: Centre for Science and Environment, 41, Tughlakabad Institutional Area, New Delhi
Villages in north Bihar sinking in Bagmati's sand - Entire flood control planning needs thorough review - Article by Dinesh Kumar Mishra in d-sector.org
Posted on 16 Jun, 2011 03:56 PMThe Bagmati Embankment separating riverside on the left and countryside of the right near Ibrahimpur – Electric poles suggest the height of the embankment
One often hears about the civilizations buried under earth and attributes various reasons for such disappearance of life from a particular place. Excavations reveal the way of life the people might have had before they chose to leave their villages and towns and allowed the nature to take its own course. These accounts are available in books and we all believe the process told to us by historians and archaeologists. These are all conjectures that are revealed by scientific investigations but how many of us have seen, not read, how the civilizations get buried under the debris created by nature? There are places in Bihar where one can see the process of disappearance of civilization and the villages getting buried under the sediments brought by rivers.
Changing with the seasons: How Himalayan communities cope with climate change - A report by Peoples’ Science Institute
Posted on 14 Jun, 2011 10:51 PMMountain areas and communities are susceptible to climate change. This work also yielded evidence of the coping strategies developed by the communities to deal with an unprecedented and only partially understood threat. This paper describes these strategies and attempts to assess the vulnerability of the communities in each valley.
"Every 30 Minutes": Crushed by debt and neoliberal reforms, Indian farmers commit suicide at a staggering rate - A report by CHR&GJ - NYU School of Law - Interview with Democracy Now
Posted on 14 Jun, 2011 05:46 PMThe crisis has ballooned with economic liberalization that has removed agricultural subsidies and opened Indian agriculture to the global market. Small farmers are often trapped in a cycle of insurmountable debt, leading many to take their lives out of sheer desperation.
Taking action in India on downstream impact of dams - Report of the workshop held by International Rivers and Save Western Ghats Movement at Jog Falls, Karnataka in May 2011
Posted on 14 Jun, 2011 05:17 PMJog falls in Western Ghats
These dams have had a profound negative impact on communities and ecology upstream and downstream. While promised benefits of these dams (irrigation, hydro-power or flood control) have been overstated, numerous interrelated and complex negative impacts have simply not been studied or documented. Nonetheless, communities and ecosystems continue paying huge prices of these impacts.
Godavari river water sharing accord - A paper by N. Sasidhar
Posted on 13 Jun, 2011 03:37 PMThe water availability in these projects has diminished to 33% dependability from the designed dependability of 75% in last nine years. Due to meager inflows, the river water quality is becoming unsafe for human and cattle consumption. It also suggests the remedial action to overcome the problem in future.
Workshop for citizen journalists from central tribal region, CGNet, 20th - 25th June, 2011, New Delhi
Posted on 13 Jun, 2011 03:24 PMOrganizer: CGNet
Venue: Rajghat, New Delhi
Description:
CGNet is pleased to announce that Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti, New Delhi has agreed to help organize a week long workshop for citizen journalists from Central Tribal India.
Accessing safe drinking water during floods in North Bihar
Posted on 13 Jun, 2011 03:23 PMThis season in the region is commonly referred to as – Barh (flood). For centuries local people have treated it as ‘a way of life’, and found ways to deal with it. Post independence, this ‘way of life’ gradually transformed into an assured annual devastation. The once self-sufficient communities in the flood plains have been relegated to being highly dependent on sources external to the village for their survival during floods.
‘Public spending and its effectiveness: Selected studies from Karnataka’ - One day seminar on health, education, water and local self-government, CBPS, 25th June, 2011, Bangalore
Posted on 13 Jun, 2011 02:09 PMOrganizer: Centre for Budget and Policy Studies (CBPS)
Venue: White House, The Hotel Capitol, Raj bhavan Road, Bangalore
Topics:
- Health
- Education
- Drinking water
- Decentralisation