Search Results for: ""
Monglajodi
It was a land of hunters. Every home of this poverty stricken village possessed a gun, and winter was boom time. With country boats and loaded guns they foraged the vast wetland for prized migratory b...
A long way to go...
The Right to Education Act, 2009, is a missed opportunity as the glaring disparities between rural and urban areas, between poor and rich, social and religious groups are likely to remain unaffected i...
Right to Education
The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act enacted by parliament in August, 2009 came into force on 1 April 2010. The Act promises 10 broad objectives including free and compulsory edu...
The Global Monitoring Report 2010
Ten years have passed since the international community adopted the six Education for All goals in Dakar in 2000. The record since then has been mixed. While much has been achieved, many of the world’...
Sustainable Development: The Powergrid Approach
POWERGRID in its environment and social policy states its commitment to the goal of sustainable development and conservation of nature and natural resources. It promises to continually improve its man...
A New Framework for Sustainable Mining
As the demand for minerals grows, the huge revenues generated from it are too often fuelling conflicts and human rights violations, increasing poverty and undermining sustainable development. The new...
Jhum: Shifting Cultivation
Focus: West Khasi Hills and Ri-Bhoi Districts, Meghalaya Shifting cultivation or jhum, predominantly practiced in the north-east of India is an agricultural system where a farming community slashes s...
Embankments of Sunderban
The construction of the embankments and the occurrence of floods in the Sunderban have raised the question of relevance and maintenance of the water front embankments to protect the region.
Snake Medicine of Tribal Bastar
In India, snakes are sacred, held in reverence second only to perhaps the cows. The tribal people of Bastar, Chhattisgarh, have in fact adapted their lives around the reptiles and believe that snakes...
Wetland Conservation
Wetlands occur where the water table is at or near the surface and land remains covered by water. Once treated as transitional habitats or seral stages in succession from open water to land, wetlands...